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- A man is wrongfully arrested and tortured to death after he is suspected of being part of a revolutionary group.
- A Plans to build the largest power plant on the Congo plunge 17 million people into darkness and insecurity.
- Félicité sings in a bar in Kinshasa. When her 14-year-old son has a motorcycle accident, she goes on a frantic search through the streets of Kinshasa, a world of music and dreams. And her path crosses that of Tabu.
- Kinshasa, DRCongo, 2005: Benda Bilili, poor paraplegic street musicians, get noticed by a French film team. Studio recordings get their music out on album and 2009, they have concerts in Europe.
- Maki'la has been living on the streets of the Congolese capital for a long time. She spends most of her time with a group of young criminals, who use the street as a stage to display their mostly stolen designer fashions. She is married to Mbingazor, the leader of the gang, who spends his time getting high or drunk. With little-to-no money for food, Maki finds life tough. Her frustration finally sees her coerce other street children to steal for her. When she encounters Acha, a fresh-faced new arrival from a faraway village, Maki not only encourages her to steal but the two become inseparable. Unfortunately, Mbingazor suspects that they are having a romantic relationship. Such rivalry can be deadly, as Bahango's riveting film shows.
- Dutch artist Renzo Martens spent three years traveling throughout the Democratic Republic of the Congo asking the question: "Who owns poverty?"
- Two brothers are trying to survive a planetary disaster. Things have envaded the world. Nobody knows how they got here nor what they came here to do, only that they feed on living things included humans.
- Invalids devastated by war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo make the trek to the capital to make their voices heard, to demand dignity and some kind of compensation.
- Documentary about the Democratic Republic of Congo when Joseph Kabila sought a constitutional amendment that would allow him to be elected president for a third term. The film follows three protagonists of the resistance.
- "Bakolo Music International" has just celebrated the group's 70th anniversary. This year they are setting off on a new international tour. Whatever awaits them on their travels, the musicians from Bakolo will continue to play the rumba until their last movement is a guitar chord, their last breath a saxophone solo and their last step a dance step.
- I am Chance follows the microcosm of a group of street savvy girls in the surprisingly bright, pop and artistic megacity of Kinshasa. Astute, sassy and resilient, Chancelvie and her friends take on the world, fighting and nurturing, stealing and sharing, turning tricks and making art. Vibrant and exuberant, Kinshasa itself becomes a character in the film, combining its voice with that of the girls.
- Colonel Honorine worked in Bukavu's police force for years as part of the Child Protection and Anti-Sexual Violence Unit, highly regarded for its effectiveness and the confidence it has able to restore in the community. But when Colonel Honorine is transferred to Kisangani, she must start over from scratch. Shortly after arriving in her new post, dozens of victims of sexual violence from the 6-Day War between Rwandan and Ugandan troops, land in her office. Thus begins a new challenge for the Colonel who is determined to fight for the recognition and support of these forgotten women, these outdated lives.
- The film takes us from the mouth to the source of the second largest river basin in the world, that of the Congo River. All along its 4371 km, we discover places that have seen the turbulent history of this country
- A gangster who makes fake money changes his lifestyle after meeting and falling in love with a devout Christian single mother, but trouble comes to them when his past catches up to him.
- Wengi and his wife Soyi are two Pygmies. The couple has lived in Kinshasa for 35 years. Despairing from the urban lifestyle and the discrimination they're subjected to, they want to return to their homeland, 700 km up the Congo river.
- Tomi is preparing to regain his freedom when he is confronted with an uncertain future. In his projection, he is alone without family or a home. In the quest for happiness, he will meet a special person and renew his passion.
- Enjoyably rough-edged glimpse into the music scene of Kinshasa, where dancers and singers alike work up a sweat so every show's a blast. Here, music is a connecting force generated by creativity and raw energy.
- "You become illegal in order to become legal." Fiston Massamba's odyssey as a political refugee from Congo across Morocco, Western Sahara and Senegal is a visually powerful episodic drama about the will for personal justice in Africa and Europe.
- Papa Wemba is dead. Possessed by the fear of the future, his dancer Bénédicte who worked for him for 15 years, embarks on the perilous mission of remixing his hit song ZERO.
- Narrated by Robert Powell, 'The Forgotten Children of Congo' was filmed over four weeks in the Democratic Republic of Congo. From the remoteness of the Congo Basin, to the capital Kinshasa and the volatile Ituri Province in the East, this powerful and sometimes harrowing documentary focuses on the plight of the country's street children, many of whom were found to be involved in witchcraft, cannibalism and as child soldiers. Unlike many other documentaries filmed in volatile regions of Africa 'The Forgotten Children of Congo' managed to shoot extensively throughout the night and also capture an actual exorcism of a child at midnight in a remote region of the country.
- 35 COWS AND A KALASHNIKOV is a film about African pride. Directed by Oswald von Richthofen and produced by Roland Emmerich, two old film school friends. It is not a classical documentary about Africa. No boy soldiers. No hunger. No safaris. But rather a poetic tribute to the eternal beauty and sublime strength of the continent. An homage to the Surma tribe of Southern Ethiopia, the dandy movement of Brazzaville, and the voodoo wrestlers in Kinshasa. Archaic roots, colonial influence and Western phenomena, all exist in today's Africa. The filmmakers show three unusual facets of the continent. The result pushes the boundaries of cinematic aesthetics. Bold images and daring editing create a captivating way of storytelling, of poetry. 35 COWS AND A KALASHNIKOV will illuminate your view of the Dark Continent.
- A tribute to the Congolese people, who despite desperate poverty, a history of oppression and an ongoing civil war that has killed nearly 4 million people, continue to be sustained by music.
- Chancela fled home at the age of six. As a young charismatic African-Israeli, he abandons the community for fame and success in the big city. Coming of age, his origins emerge making him fight for his identity and face his violent refugee father. Now comes the inner conflict, tearing him Inside-Out almost like a REBIRTH. The Birth of his 'NEW BLACK'.
- Un pays plus beau qu'avant is a film about the Congo made in Brussels. The wanderings of Jean-Simon, a small-time business man, reveal the outlines of a microcosm of informal commerce within the Congolese diaspora. His everyday economic urgency connects with the political urgency regarding the situation back home as experienced from a distance by the Congolese living in Europe. The film orbits around these two imperatives, in a constant negotiation between here and elsewhere, the past and the present.