Democratic Republic of the Congo Movies

STOP FILMING US BUT LISTEN (2022) takes a closer look at the imbalance of power inherited from colonialism and its consequences on the representation...

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...

People no longer know what the medical assistants were: neither the Belgians, who created this medical category during the colonisation of the Congo;...

Ndoko, a hard-headed little girl, has disobeyed her mother once again. Then she learns that her baby brother has been abducted by a cannibal monster....

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....

Kinshasa and its inhabitants are in darkness. They wait and struggle to get access to light. Between hope, disappointment and religious faith, Tongo...

Rooted in the oral tale recounted by the Tetela in Sankuru, Democratic Republic of Congo, this story explains how it came to be that the Fox ate the...

The Congo Basin, the world’s second-largest rainforest, is a sanctuary for endangered species - but tracking them in its dense wilderness is no...

The five artists of KIN'KONGOLO KINIATA fuse world-famous Congolese rhythms and electro beats. To capture the sounds of the city and realise them...

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

A gaze on the landscapes of the Democratic Republic of Congo to translate a sense of its unfathomable power, diversity and knowledge. The scenery is...

Christine is head of the financial department at the Kintambo maternity ward. Her job is to ensure that all patients have paid the hospital fees....

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...

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...

In a little town in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, an armed band emerges and raids the classes in a school. Narrated by a child who...

"Rêve de chien", an animated short film by Jourdain Kielukusu Izu Di Do, was made in Kinshasa between 2012 and 2013, during the...

This animated short film by Carlos Kalonji was produced in Kinshasa as part of the beneficiary project Afriqu'Anim'Action, piloted by Studios Malembe...