“What has made the documentary work well is that it shows another way of brokering peace. And it shows that, at the end of the day, what happens on an official level is not always what is going on behind the scenes,” says Jean-Yves Ollivier. “Many hope that the work of ‘Monsieur Jacques’ will serve as a blueprint for future peace deals in Africa and beyond, as Euronews correspondent, Stefan Grobe, explained. Watch the Euronews interview with Jean-Yves Ollivier, Pierre Oba, Minister of Mining for the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Angolan Ambassadors to the UN, Ismael Gaspar Martins during the private cocktail reception before the film’s screening HERE.
