Democratic Republic of the Congo Movies

Footage of the investigation documentary telling about the extermination of African elephants lasted almost three years. The film crew traveled...

The Democratic Republic of Congo has endured 20 years of devastating violence. Rape has been used as a weapon of war to destroy community and access...

The story revolves around seven-year-old Londri Mingolo's flight from the Congo to Germany and his problems settling into German society.

"The rape of the land, the mutilation of the flesh." La femme Congolaise - courageous and industrious despite the vicissitudes and the turbulence of...

January 2025, the city of Goma, capital of North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of Congo, falls into the hands of rebels. It took only four days for...

A film about the gift of re-membering what was dis-membered by the colonial project. Dreamscapes, ritualised practices of sharing and ancestral...

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...

Chantale and Paulin, a brother and sister born of rape, meet for the first time in an orphanage in Kivu, far from their home village. Driven by the...

The film uses the 1969 American Apollo 11 mission that landed a man on the moon as the year and the backdrop for an interesting glimpse at middle...

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...

A young man with dreams of pursuing a career in music moves form his small village to the capital. Along the way he falls head over heels for a...

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...

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...

A journey between hope and dystopia in a hallucinated Kinshasa, from the culture of the hair salon to futuristic solitary clubbing, from an urban...

61 years after his assassination, Patrice Lumumba returns to his country. "Congo returns to Congo" as one of his children said. Lumumba was a...

One hundred years after the first flight between Belgium and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Brussels Airlines approaches Collectif Faire-Part...

Born in the recent past in school playgrounds and now a national sport, Nzango is a female-only game. The aim is to imitate, or more mysteriously,...

The Congo Basin, the world’s second-largest rainforest, is a sanctuary for endangered species - but tracking them in its dense wilderness is no...