Photos: Paula Allen for V-Day It’s been over two years since I’ve been able to visit City of Joy. No luck with visas combined with high insecurity. The war quietly and invisibly rages on but City of Joy, like so…

Released Globally TODAY as a Netflix Original Film, The Award-winning CITY OF JOY Takes the Audience on an Intimate and Inspiring Journey News, reviews and interviews are breaking across the media. Following is a snapshot of what’s being said about…

TUNE in as Christine Schuler Deschryver – City of Joy Co-Founder and Director, Eve Ensler – Playwright, Founder of V-Day, and Co-Founder of City of Joy, and Madeleine Gavin – CITY OF JOY Film Director are interviewed about CITY OF…

Published in Bustle By Casey Cipriani In Bukavu, a city in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, there is a place where women who’ve suffered brutal rapes at the hands of violent militias can find safety, comfort, and…

Published in Westword By Daphne Howland City of Joy premieres September 7 on Netflix For some two decades in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, rape has been a tool of war that has killed or disfigured hundreds of thousands…

Published in Diandra Reviews It All By Diandra Reviews City of Joy Motto: Transforming Pain Into Power Synopsis: Directed by Madeleine Gavin, City of Joy follows the unlikely friendship that develops between Congolese doctor Dr. Denis Mukwege (2016 Nominee for the…

Published in Common Sense Media By Renee Schonfeld WHAT PARENTS NEED TO KNOW Parents need to know that City of Joy is a powerful documentary about women and girls of Bukavu, Eastern Congo who have survived rape and been victimized by the horrors of…

Published in The Guardian By Clara Mae How does one find joy amid unspeakable tragedy? Madeleine Gavin’s documentary City of Joy, about a community built around women who have survived horrific violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), gives…

Published in Unseen Films By Steve Kopian Raw visceral painful heart breaking joyous hopeful film about The City of Joy in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a place where women can go to heal and find strength in he face…