Democratic Republic of the Congo Movies

Two young rocket engineers, Nestor and Isaac, struggle against the economic and political realities of their country. Propelled by the memory of past...

Set in the ruins of a former Unilever plantation in Lusanga, this psychotronic film stages a speculative arrival: a UFO crashes, and an astronaut...

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

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...

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...

A shoeshine boy observes the rhythmic passing of people's curious shoes.

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...

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...

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...

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