Democratic Republic of the Congo Movies

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...

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....

Barbara Marcel runs a film workshop at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Kinshasa. Starting with a discussion of the film The Lion Has Seven Heads by...

The Libende Boyz are young rappers from Beni in the DRC, who are trying at all costs to bring a form of artistic expression to life in an environment...

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...

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...

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...

The film follows a female protagonist who sits for a posed photography session. The session takes an unexpected turn, spiraling into a series of...

Moise Katumbi Chapwe is an Italian Sephardic Jew on his father's side and a Congolese on his mother's side. He is the Congolese personality who most...

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

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...

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

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...

"C'est urgent!", an animated short film by Armel Pululu, was made in Kinshasa between 2012 and 2013, during the Afriqu'Anim'Action project led by 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...

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....

Documentary about Zaire's football team at the 1974 FIFA World Cup and what happened to the players afterwards.

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