Fight Like a Girl Review – real life action boosts the action packed action of a boxer | Video

Here is an underdog boxing movie from the Democratic Republic of the Congo which has a powerful, heartbreaking true story behind it – and features the attention of young South African actress Ama Qamata. He plays a young victim of sexual violence against women and girls in the DRC, who is found by a boxing coach while living homeless on the streets. It is directed with a steady hand by the American filmmaker Matthew Leutwyler who puts together a heartfelt drama that does not look away from the horrors, but chooses to focus on the strength and resilience of women and girls.

Qamata plays Safi, a young man who works as a slave in a mine. One day he ran away and arrived in the city of Goma barefoot, and found a fence to sleep on, surrounded by criminals and children who smelled of glue. It looks so real that it should be filmed on real streets; No amount of road trips and sets can recreate what this sounds like. The visuals show Safi’s life as a child living happily with her family and explain how she came to be with her bad right hook.

One day, Safi met real boxing coach Balezi “Kibimango” Bagunda (played here by Hakeem Kae-Kazim), a former boxer who trains a group of female fighters. The movie goes against the grain of boxing when Safi starts training in Kibimango, where the champion is a woman named Aisha (played by Clarck Ntambwe, who inspired the film). These moments are fictional but there is a strong sense of drama from the actors, many of whom have experienced the brutality of wartime. There is a big twist at the end, with the news that Kibomango was killed in 2025 by removing children from an orphanage.