Congo - Kinshasa Movies

E’ville (short for Elisabethville, name given to the city of Lubumbashi before 1960). A film in layers, which superimposes musical atmospheres, sound...

A fratricide war between two tribes in the Congo in the pre-colonial period: the Tsembo and the Tsoundi. Their alliance is guaranteed by the marriage...

An 'afronaut' emerges from the wreckage of a spaceship in the volcanic crater of Mount Nyiragongo. As he descends into the city below, encountering th...

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 (more...

Many of us played this as kids, spinning on the spot until collapsing. In a group there’s a competitive element, each tries to be the last one still u...

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 s...

In this documentary essay, Congolese artist David Shongo addresses the problems of knowledge production and asks the important question of how it was...

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...

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 clandestins, lithi...

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, ant...

With all the charm of flick soccer, Subbuteo, pinball, and other miniature passions, this is played on a small circle of stubby broken-off sticks like...

Blasty and Céli love each other, but Blasty has another love: his stereo radio set. When he walks the streets of his native Kinshasa, Céli and the rad...

In Kinshasa, "Zagué" saturates the sound of the working class neighborhoods, broadcast by the DJs who hold their broadcasting booths in the street and...

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 manu...

On the soundtrack, poet Marie Paule Mugeni reads a speech prepared for the day on which the colonial statue of King Leopold II will be definitively re...