City of Joy is a 2016 documentary film directed and written by Madeleine Gavin.
It follows the first class of students at a leadership center in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
[1][2] The film was released by Netflix on September 7, 2018.
[3] The east of the Democratic Republic of Congo is a region in which being a woman is hard since she often experiences violence in the wake of a 20-year war, driven by colonialism.
In the film, women band together at the leadership center to find a way to handle the horrible experiences that they had to live and to come out on the other side to be leaders and inspirations for other women in the region.