Democratic Republic of the Congo Movies

An artist runs out of paint days before an exhibition. Desperate for money, he decides to run a hustle: he swaps his brushes for a Bible and heads to...

Alone on her bed, Bénédicte, a thirty-year-old woman, listens religiously to the tube ZERO by Papa Wemba - dead, recently on the FEMUA...

Torn from childhood to become a soldier, Alain reveals the invisible scars of war and his struggle to find his place in a world that has cast him...

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...

1951 film by Albert Mongita.

During a trip to East Congo, a young beatmaker and afro-descendant has a striking encounter with Mababu, a guardian of the oral traditions of the...

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

Inspired by the African masks at the Museum Rietberg in Zurich, the Swiss artist Lukas Stucky designed a mask and asked the Congolese artist Rita...

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...

The city of Goma at night. Two beings of light interact with eachother and the public in the unlit streets.