Fight Like a Girl
New York African Film Festival 2024
May 8 - 14, 2024
Starring Ama Qamata and Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Fight Like a Girl depicts the true story of a young Congolese woman who finds liberation after joining an all-women’s boxing club in Goma, led by an ex-child-soldier coach.
Q&A with Ama Qamata & Clark Ntambwe
A young Congolese woman (Ama Qamata from the hit Netflix series Blood and Water) forced to work in an illegal mineral mine escapes her captors and finds a new life for herself after joining a renowned all-women’s boxing club in the border city of Goma. Based on the true story of an East Congo all-women’s boxing club and their ex-child-soldier coach, Fight Like a Girl was shot on location in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda.
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