Democratic Republic of the Congo Movies

"The rape of the land, the mutilation of the flesh." La femme Congolaise - courageous and industrious despite the vicissitudes and the turbulence of...

For 25 years, the Democratic Republic of Congo has been ravaged by a war that has largely been ignored by the media and the international community....

Four friends roam the streets, bars and boxing clubs in a bubbling and bewitching big African town.

Filmmakers Paul Shemisi and Nizar Saleh travel from the Democratic Republic of Congo to Germany for the screening of their new film. During a layover...

Kongo lives in Brussels, in the « Matongé » district on which he is writing a book. His editor wants a kind of traveller’s...

Chantale and Paulin, a brother and sister born of rape, meet for the first time in an orphanage in Kivu, far from their home village. Driven by the...

When he was three years old, Dominique Bikaba’s family was expelled from their ancestral land in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo....

A journey between hope and dystopia in a hallucinated Kinshasa, from the culture of the hair salon to futuristic solitary clubbing, from an urban...

The Democratic Republic of Congo has endured 20 years of devastating violence. Rape has been used as a weapon of war to destroy community and access...

Ancestral patterns combined with modern prejudices and stigma explain skin bleaching.

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...

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

French couple Jean and Marie go on their honeymoon in Jean's hometown in Africa. They end up in the middle of a tense political situation as soon as...

Footage of the investigation documentary telling about the extermination of African elephants lasted almost three years. The film crew traveled...

Thirty years of war, seven million displaced, ten million dead. A plunge into the chaos of the city of Goma, capital of North Kivu in the Democratic...

Forest dwellers pound drums upholding rituals while urbanites cry "Progress!" More plunder the land's riches but newly defiant ones shout back.

This documentary offers the reflections of filmmakers shot at FESPACO 1991. Djibril Diop Mambéty, David Achkar, Moussa Sene Absa, Mambaye...

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

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,...