Democratic Republic of the Congo Movies

The Congolese-Belgian artist Baloji looks at Congolese pygmy wedding traditions.

Mikuba takes us to the cobalt veins of Kolwezi, where the battle for a green energy future is fought in dust and heat. As Mama Leonece navigates the...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

In Kinshasa, rumor has it that the constitution includes 14 articles. And in order to face the increasing poverty of the people, politicians who have...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...