The Central African Republic’s culture ministry announced Friday that a documentary depicting student life that was selected for this year’s Berlinale has been banned for allegedly “inciting revolution against the government.”

“We, Students!” by young film-maker Rafiki Fariala offers insight into the chaotic lives of a group of economics students at the capital’s Bangui University.

It was the first Central African film to be accepted into the famous Berlin Film Festival in February, and it had already been screened 11 times in the capital prior to the ban.

On April 30, Culture Minister Jennifer Saraiva-Yanzere walked out of a screening of the feature-length documentary in Bangui, an AFP journalist said, later condemning it as containing “very compromising images” and deploring the fact that it had not been approved by the ministry before being shown abroad.

“This film is nothing but a report that tends to denigrate Centrafrican students, destroy… social cohesion and incite revolt against the authorities and institutions of the republic,” the culture ministry said in a statement sent to AFP on Friday.

A request for comment from the 24-year-old director and his team was not immediately returned.

Since 2013, the Central African Republic has been plagued by civil war, though the intensity has decreased since 2018.