Gorilla Tourism (2016)

Rwanda in Eastern Africa is a place that already for the past twenty years, after the last civil war and genocide where almost a million people were killed, has been successful in avoiding ethnic conflicts and in constructing a new society of conciliation. The main source of income for the people in this country of the Hutu and the Tutsi is mainly agriculture; however, the strict rulers of the state want to turn this mountaneous country into one of the most modern and technologically developed small states of Africa. But the main source of financing this grand plan is mountain gorillas - one of the most endangered animals in the world and genetically close relatives to human beings. There are only a few hundred specimens of these ultra rare primates left and Western tourists agree to pay a lot in order to look at them. The documentary takes the viewer to the daily life of mountain gorillas and the forest guides who mediate these animals to tourists. There are both battles with poaching as well as extreme poverty common to Africa.