Democratic Republic of the Congo Movies

Mweze Ngangura takes us to his native region, Ngweshe, one of he six Bushi kingdoms in the province of Kivu, in Eastern Zaïre. In this region of...

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

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...

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...

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

Rumba Royale is an historical thriller set in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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

Max wakes up one morning and discovers that his wife Hélène has left him in his sleep, without a word, taking their two children with...

A short documentary about Roger Jamar, the pioneer of African animated film, made by renowned Congolese animator Jean-Michel Kibushi who also oversaw...

Meli finds Chirac, and the two lovers are very happy to meet up after a long time and decide to catch up. The adventure becomes hard to continue when...

Rodrigue and Reine live with their three children in Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic. They make their living from a meager yield...

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...

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

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

Between Belgian colonial archives and images shot in the present, the violence of a dehumanizing economic system is revealed through the story of a...

Papy finds out he has AIDS. His wife and family reject him, he can no longer go to work and has to take care of his children. To be able to obtain...

Nestor, Aaron, Benjamin and Rafiki are economics undergraduates at the University of Bangui. Navigating between the overcrowded classrooms, the petty...

Photographer and visual artist Sammy Baloji’s fascinating film essay explores the Democratic Republic of Congo’s colonial history and its...

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

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...