Democratic Republic of the Congo Movies

  • 2024
    Rendez-vous d'avant l'aube

    Rendez-vous d'avant l'aube

    Rendez-vous d'avant l'aube

    02024HD

    The story of Fakau Bilo is that of a man who, despite his experience and status, feels powerless in the face of a force beyond his control. An...

    Rendez-vous d'avant l'aube
  • 2018
    Peau de Chagrin/Bleu de Nuit

    Peau de Chagrin/Bleu de Nuit

    Peau de Chagrin/Bleu de Nuit

    62018HD

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

    Peau de Chagrin/Bleu de Nuit
  • 2021
    Children’s Game #29: La roue

    Children’s Game #29: La roue

    Children’s Game #29: La roue

    02021HD

    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...

    Children’s Game #29: La roue
  • 2023
    Destiny Traced

    Destiny Traced

    Destiny Traced

    02023HD

    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...

    Destiny Traced
  • 1950
    L'élite Noire De Demain

    L'élite Noire De Demain

    L'élite Noire De Demain

    101950HD

    A documentary about missionaries in formal Belgian Congo.

    L'élite Noire De Demain
  • 2022
    Kumbuka

    Kumbuka

    Kumbuka

    02022HD

    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....

    Kumbuka
  • 1999
    Watt

    Watt

    Watt

    91999HD

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

    Watt
  • 2021
    Children’s Game #26: Kisolo

    Children’s Game #26: Kisolo

    Children’s Game #26: Kisolo

    02021HD

    Kisolo is one of a thousand variants of the global Ur-game, Mancala, a “sowing” game sometimes still played with seeds even when using a...

    Children’s Game #26: Kisolo
  • 1992
    Toad Visits His In-Laws 2: The White Orange

    Toad Visits His In-Laws 2: The White Orange

    Toad Visits His In-Laws 2: The White Orange

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    With the help of the sun, the sage of sages and swallow, Ms. Toad manages to find the famous white orange that gives life to her husband and his...

    Toad Visits His In-Laws 2: The White Orange
  • 1970
    Life is a Railroad

    Life is a Railroad

    Life is a Railroad

    01970HD

    Christine is head of the financial department at the Kintambo maternity ward. Her job is to ensure that all patients have paid the hospital fees....

    Life is a Railroad
  • 2026
    Clichés

    Clichés

    Clichés

    02026HD

    In a Kinshasa house, a visit unfolds between two couples where everything seems in place, yet something is slightly off. At the center, Pamela...

    Clichés
  • 2021
    Children’s Game #30: Imbu

    Children’s Game #30: Imbu

    Children’s Game #30: Imbu

    02021HD

    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...

    Children’s Game #30: Imbu
  • 2008
    Between the Cup and the Election

    Between the Cup and the Election

    Between the Cup and the Election

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

    Between the Cup and the Election
  • 2021
    The Cost of Cobalt

    The Cost of Cobalt

    The Cost of Cobalt

    02021HD

    In the cobalt mining areas of Katanga in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), babies are being born with horrific birth defects. Scientists...

    The Cost of Cobalt
  • 1970
    Zero

    Zero

    Zero

    01970HD

    Alone on her bed, Bénédicte, a thirty-year-old woman, listens religiously to the tube ZERO by Papa Wemba - dead, recently on the FEMUA...

    Zero
  • 1970
    À la grâce de dieu

    À la grâce de dieu

    À la grâce de dieu

    01970HD

    The search for a doppelgänger who shares a pure expression of art takes Odoul to Kinshasa for his final film.

    À la grâce de dieu
  • 1998
    Un rêve d'indépendance

    Un rêve d'indépendance

    Un rêve d'indépendance

    01998HD

    People no longer know what the medical assistants were: neither the Belgians, who created this medical category during the colonisation of the Congo;...

    Un rêve d'indépendance
  • 2021
    Malik: le trône d'Ankoro

    Malik: le trône d'Ankoro

    Malik: le trône d'Ankoro

    02021HD

    In the kingdom of Ankoro, in the heart of the Congo, lived the powerful king Malipo with unrivalled mystical power.

    Malik: le trône d'Ankoro
  • 2023
    Speech for a Melting Statue

    Speech for a Melting Statue

    Speech for a Melting Statue

    02023HD

    On the soundtrack, poet Marie Paule Mugeni reads a speech prepared for the day on which the colonial statue of King Leopold II will be definitively...

    Speech for a Melting Statue
  • 2024
    Kin’kongolo Kiniata

    Kin’kongolo Kiniata

    Kin’kongolo Kiniata

    02024HD

    In Kinshasa, a young music band fights to exist, to survive and to be heard in a city that devours dreams as quickly as it inspires them. A world...

    Kin’kongolo Kiniata