Democratic Republic of the Congo Movies
- 2023
Lumene: Privatisation
Lumene: Privatisation02023HD
In this documentary essay, Congolese artist David Shongo addresses the problems of knowledge production and asks the important question of how it was...
- 2021
Children’s Game #30: Imbu
Children’s Game #30: Imbu02021HD
Though mosquitoes have almost as many sensory auditory cells as we do, their hearing is for the sole purpose of finding a mate. Individual males...
- 2015
Roger Jamar and the Palavers of Mboloko
Roger Jamar and the Palavers of Mboloko02015HD
A short documentary about Roger Jamar, the pioneer of African animated film, made by renowned Congolese animator Jean-Michel Kibushi who also oversaw...
- 2013
The Irresistible Rise of Moïse Katumbi
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Moise Katumbi Chapwe is an Italian Sephardic Jew on his father's side and a Congolese on his mother's side. He is the Congolese personality who most...
- 1970
Théâtre urbain
Théâtre urbain01970HD
- 2021
Children’s Game #29: La roue
Children’s Game #29: La roue02021HD
Over the city of Lubumbashi looms the mampala or slag heap of the Étoile du Congo cobalt mine, its lower slopes today sifted by the...
- 1970
Chinafrika. mobile
Chinafrika. mobile01970HD
The documentary film Chinafrika.mobile is tracking the life cycle of a mobile phone. From its birth in the mines in the Kolwezi, DR Congo, to its...
- 1971
Moseka
Moseka01971HD
Moseka, a young woman from Zaire, travels to Belgium to study. With her braided hair and traditional clothes, she is the laughingstock of her fellow...
- 2022
Stop Filming Us But Listen
Stop Filming Us But Listen02022HD
STOP FILMING US BUT LISTEN (2022) takes a closer look at the imbalance of power inherited from colonialism and its consequences on the representation...
- 1970
I am Chance
I am Chance01970HD
- 2020
Après coup
Après coup02020HD
- 1970
The Cost of Cobalt
The Cost of Cobalt01970HD
In the cobalt mining areas of Katanga in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), babies are being born with horrific birth defects. Scientists...
- 2019
Kinshasa Beta Mbonda
Kinshasa Beta Mbonda02019HD
A dozen or so young percussionists bring music to Barumbu, a poor neighbourhood of Kinshasa. They are the Beta Mbonda, former members of the Kuluna...
- 2009
Ladies in Waiting
Ladies in Waiting02009HD
Taking in the wives of the unemployed, of unpaid government employees, the Kitambo maternity clinic in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo has to...
- 1982
Kin Kiesse
Kin Kiesse01982HD
Kin Kiesse is a 1982 documentary film about "Kin" (Kinshasa), the capital of Zaire, and the capital of paradoxes and excesses, commentated on by one...
- 2022
Kumbuka
Kumbuka02022HD
Two young Congolese filmmakers are surprised by the enthusiastic reception of Stop Filming Us, a Dutch film shot in Goma by Joris Postema in 2019....
- 2021
Children’s Game #28: Nzango
Children’s Game #28: Nzango02021HD
Born in the recent past in school playgrounds and now a national sport, Nzango is a female-only game. The aim is to imitate, or more mysteriously,...
- 1992
Toad Visits His In-Laws 2: The White Orange
Toad Visits His In-Laws 2: The White Orange01992HD
With the help of the sun, the sage of sages and swallow, Ms. Toad manages to find the famous white orange that gives life to her husband and his...
- 1970
INATTENTION
INATTENTION01970HD
- 2003
Lamokowang
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A poetic celebration of the role and place of the Calabash in African societies. At the same time - using the calabash as a metaphor for African film...