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Pushing the Elephant - A Women and Girls Lead Online...

March is Women's History Month and to celebrate we're bringing you 10 films as part of the Women and Girls Lead Online Film Festival. Watch Pushing the Elephant, a story of forgiveness, hope, and the joy of family life that captures one woman's mission for peace in her country beset by genocidal violence.

Pushing the Elephant: It Takes a Village...of Women

3m 2s

When civil war came to Rose's Congolese village, she was separated from her five-year-old daughter, Nangabire. Rose Mapendo managed to escape with nine of her 10 children and was eventually resettled in Phoenix, Arizona. More than a decade later, mother and daughter are reunited in the U.S. where they must come to terms with the past and build a new future

Previews + Extras

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    Pushing the Elephant: Immeasurable Pain

    S12 E16 - 50s

    When civil war came to Rose's Congolese village, she was separated from her five-year-old daughter, Nangabire. Rose Mapendo managed to escape with nine of her 10 children and was eventually resettled in Phoenix, Arizona. More than a decade later, mother and daughter are reunited in the U.S. where they must come to terms with the past and build a new future.

  • Pushing the Elephant: Together at Last: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Pushing the Elephant: Together at Last

    S12 E16 - 2m 42s

    When civil war came to Rose's Congolese village, she was separated from her five-year-old daughter, Nangabire. Rose Mapendo managed to escape with nine of her 10 children and was eventually resettled in Phoenix, Arizona. More than a decade later, mother and daughter are reunited in the U.S. where they must come to terms with the past and build a new future.

  • Pushing the Elephant - Preview: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Pushing the Elephant - Preview

    S12 E16 - 28s

    When civil war came to Rose's Congolese village, she was separated from her five-year-old daughter, Nangabire. Rose Mapendo managed to escape with nine of her 10 children and was eventually resettled in Phoenix, Arizona. More than a decade later, mother and daughter are reunited in the U.S. where they must come to terms with the past and build a new future.

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