title: Sambizanga

type: Backdrop

status: Released

overview: Domingos is a member of an African liberation movement, arrested by the Portuguese secret police, after bloody events in Angola. His wife goes from a prison station to another, trying in vain to find out where he is.

title: Sambizanga

title: Sambizanga

overview: Angola, 1961. Domingos Xavier, militante anticolonialista e membro do Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola, é detido pela polícia secreta portuguesa e levado para um local desconhecido. Sua esposa Maria embarca em uma marcha pelo país em busca do marido.

title: 桑比赞加

overview: 多明戈斯是一个非洲解放运动的成员，在安哥拉发生血腥事件后被葡萄牙秘密警察逮捕。他没有背叛他的同伴，而是在监狱里被殴打致死，不知道他死了，他的妻子从一个监狱站跑到另一个监狱，徒劳地想知道他在哪里。

title: 삼비장가

overview: 한 여성이 포르투갈 당국에 체포된 남편을 찾아 도시 외곽에서 루안다의 중심부로 향한다. 하지만 남편의 행방은 묘연하고 아내는 그를 찾기 위해 교도소를 전전한다. 이는 이후 봉기의 발화점이 된다.

title: Sambizanga

overview: Cette bombe révolutionnaire de Sarah Maldoror raconte le réveil du mouvement indépendantiste angolais. Basé sur une histoire vraie, SAMBIZANGA suit une jeune femme alors qu'elle se dirige de la périphérie de Luanda vers le centre-ville à la recherche de son mari après son arrestation par les autorités portugaises - un incident qui contribuera finalement à déclencher un soulèvement national. Présentant un casting de non-professionnels - dont beaucoup étaient eux-mêmes impliqués dans la résistance anticoloniale - cette œuvre historique du cinéma politique honore le rôle essentiel des femmes, ainsi que les épreuves qu'elles endurent, dans la lutte mondiale pour la libération.

title: Sambizanga

overview: Historia sobre la represión de un miembro del movimiento de liberación angoleño y de la búsqueda constante de su mujer con su hijo, la cual va revelando cómo funciona la lógica burocrática del colonialismo. Sambizanga de hecho es el nombre de un barrio obrero de Luanda donde estaba la cárcel portuguesa en la que fueron encerrados, torturados y asesinados numerosos militantes angoleños. El 4 de febrero de 1961, el MPLA atacó la prisión. La película empieza con la detención del líder revolucionario Domingos Xavier por oficiales portugueses. Le llevan a la cárcel de Sambizanga donde será torturado hasta la muerte si no delata a sus compañeros disidentes. La película sigue a María, la mujer de Domingos Xavier, que va de prisión en prisión en un intento por saber qué ha sido de su marido.

title: 桑比讚加

overview: 多明戈斯是一個非洲解放運動的成員，在安哥拉發生血腥事件後被葡萄牙秘密警察逮捕。他沒有背叛他的同伴，而是在監獄裏被毆打致死，不知道他死了，他的妻子從一個監獄站跑到另一個監獄，徒勞地想知道他在哪裏。

title: Sambizanga

overview: Domingos è un membro di un movimento di liberazione africano, arrestato dalla polizia segreta portoghese dopo i sanguinosi eventi in Angola. Sua moglie si sposta da una stazione di polizia all'altra, cercando invano di scoprire dove si trovi.

character: Maria

type: Cast

character: Domingos

character: Petelo

character: Zito

character: Chico

character: Miguel

character: Mussunda

character: Bébiana

character: PIDE Agent

character: Narrator (voice)

job: Director

department: Directing

type: Crew

job: Additional Dialogue

department: Crew

job: Dialogue

department: Writing

job: Screenplay

job: Script

job: Novel

job: Writer

job: Director of Photography

department: Camera

job: Editor

department: Editing

job: Production Manager

department: Production

original_title: Sambizanga

original_language: ln

title: Замбизанга

country: SU

production_countries: AO FR CG


title: The Wrestlers

overview: Set in a small village in the Congo, where one of the villagers’ favorite pastimes is either to watch or to take part in a form of very civilised "fighting" that involves two young men in loin cloths trying to flip the other to the ground. The action is over in a few seconds, and then another pair of fighters takes a turn, all the while reminded by the referee not to inflict hurt. An important match is coming up and the people in the village are backing their favourite, who spends his time in training with a Belgian coach, getting ready for the big day.

title: The Wrestlers

original_title: M'Pongo

title: Les lutteurs

country: FR


title: Kaka-Yo

type: Poster

overview: Vibrant love story, which means "Just You" in Lingala, intersperses modern life, the youth of Brazzaville at the time, the European dances in vogue in the 1960s, and life initiation, the sorcery, spiritual power and ritual.

title: Kaka-Yo

job: Cinematography

job: Technical Supervisor

original_title: Kaka-Yo


title: Félicité

FELICITE Trailer eng Sub

site: YouTube

type: Trailer

overview: Félicité, a strong and proud woman, sings in bars in Kinshasa. She drifts away from reality when her 14-year-old son gets into an accident. In electric Kinshasa, she wanders in a world of music & dreams... until love unexpectedly brings her back to life.

title: Félicité

title: Félicité

overview: Félicité, libre et fière, est chanteuse le soir dans un bar de Kinshasa. Sa vie bascule quand son fils de 14 ans est victime d'un accident de moto. Pour le sauver, elle se lance dans une course effrénée à travers les rues d'une Kinshasa électrique, un monde de musique et de rêves. Ses chemins croisent ceux de Tabu.

title: Félicité

overview: Félicité per vivere fa la cantante a Kinshasa, una mattina riceve una telefonata dall'ospedale che le comunica che suo figlio Samo rischia di perdere una gamba se la donna non trova i soldi per sostenere l'operazione. A nulla valgono i tentativi di Félicité, che seppur ha trovato il denaro necessario all'intervento, non è riuscita a salvare in tempo la gamba del figlio. L'evento l'ha così profondamente cambiata da farle perdere il gusto della vita, rifugiandosi in un mondo fatto di sogni, finchè l'amore non la riporterà alla realtà e alla sua musica.

title: Félicité

overview: Félicité canta en un club nocturno en Kinshasa, la capital de la República Democrática del Congo. Su vida cambia de raíz cuando su hijo de 14 años tiene un terrible accidente de motocicleta y ella comienza una búsqueda frenética a través de las calles de Kinshasa, un mundo de música y sueños. Su obsesión: recaudar dinero para la cirugía de su hijo. Y en su camino se cruza con Tabu.

title: 樂在金沙薩

overview: 在剛果金沙薩生存不容易，貧富懸殊、社會秩序混亂， 單親媽媽費莉絲蒂是小酒吧駐唱歌手，十四歲兒子遇車禍撞斷腿，醫院見錢才肯動手術，她四出籌措高昂手術費，卻無人伸出援手。以為是苦情戲嗎？倔強的費莉絲蒂沒有輕易被命運擊倒，以穿透靈魂的歌聲展現強韌生命力。手搖及特寫鏡頭營造紀實味道，又從困境徐徐轉入後段的浪漫與夢幻。雪櫃壞了，修理的男人好像帶來希望，其實希望在自己手裏，困頓生活依然有歌。

title: Félicité

overview: A vida de Felicité muda quando Samo, seu filho adolescente, sofre um acidente. Sem uma cirurgia de emergência, ele corre o risco de ter uma perna amputada, mas o cirurgião se recusa a intervir enquanto ela não tiver reunido o dinheiro necessário.

title: 菲丽希缇

overview: 刚果首都金沙萨。单亲母亲菲丽希缇每晚在低廉的小酒馆驻唱，结果儿子萨蒙突然遭遇摩托车事故面临截肢，让这个贫穷但骄傲的女人被迫到处筹钱为儿子手术，过程中她获得了杂工塔布的帮助，也更多遭遇了别人的冷眼和羞辱。可最后儿子没有摆脱截肢厄运......

title: Félicité

title: 펠리시테

overview: 펠리시테는 콩고의 킨샤사에 사는 클럽 가수다. 병실에 있던 그녀는 아들의 수술비를 사기 당하는 어처구니 없는 상황을 맞이한다. 또 다시 수술비 마련을 위해 동료들의 도움을 받아 십시일반으로 모금을 하는가 하면, 부잣집을 무작정 돌아다니며 돈을 구걸하기 위해 애를 쓴다. 네오리얼리즘 영화를 연상시키듯이 헬드 카메라로 찍은 콩고의 거리와 풍경은 흔들리는 그녀의 위태로움을 드러낸다. 카메라에 뼈아픈 현실만 담긴 것이 아니다. 고통스러운 장면들 사이로 등장하는 펠리시테의 노래는 삶의 애환과 가녀린 희망을 향한 마음을 간절하게 담고 있다. 이 영화의 노래는 아프리카의 문화적 공감의 표현이자 주인공의 마음을 대변하는 통로가 된다. 올해 베를린영화제 심사위원상을 수상한 이 작품은 한 여성의 삶을 통해 들여다보는 아프리카의 희망을 갈구하는 노래다. 하지만 간신히 돈을 마련한 그녀 앞에 들이닥친 현실은 끝내 다리를 잃고 마는 아들의 모습으로 맺어진다. 그래도 삶은 계속된다. 그녀의 노래가 결코 끝나지 않았기 때문이다.

title: Felisita

title: Félicité

overview: Kinshasa'da barlarda şarkı söyleyen gururlu kadın Félicité, 14 yaşındaki oğlu kaza geçirince gerçeklikten kopar. Müzik ve düşlerle dolu bu şehirde dolaşırken aşk, onu beklenmedik bir şekilde hayatına geri döndürür.

character: Félicité

character: Samo

character: Tabu

character: Hortense

character: Luisant

character: Diplome

character: Main Gauche

character: Professeur

character: Léger

character: Renard

character: Serveuse

character: Cuisinière Nganda

character: Fille notable

character: Singer

character: boys

character: Bandit

character: Infirmière

character: footballer

original_title: Félicité

title: 펠리시테

country: KR

production_countries: CD FR LB BE SN DE


title: Kinshasa Makambo

name: Kinshasa Makambo - Trailer (Eng) ArtMattan

site: Vimeo

overview: Christian, Ben and Jean-Marie are fighting for political change of power and free elections in their country, the Democratic Republic of the Congo. But the incumbent President refuses to relinquish power. How can the course of events be changed? Must they join forces with the historical opposition leader and his powerful party? Is dialogue still possible or must they resign themselves to a popular uprising and the risk of a blood bath?

title: Kinshasa Makambo

overview: Centenas de jovens revolucionários vão até as ruas de Kinshasa quando Joseph Kabila, presidente do Congo, se recusa a abdicar do poder no final de seu segundo mandato. Os protestos são recebidos com violência, mas a batalha por eleições livres e pela democracia não pode ser reprimida.

title: Kinshasa Makambo

title: Kinshasa Makambo

title: Retour à Kinshasa

overview: Christian, Ben et Jean-Marie luttent pour l’alternance politique et la tenue d’élections libres dans leur pays, la République Démocratique du Congo. Mais le Président s’accroche au pouvoir... Comment changer le cours des évènements ? Faut-il s’allier avec l’opposant historique et son puissant parti ? Le dialogue est-il encore possible ou doit-on se résoudre au soulèvement populaire et risquer un bain de sang ? Kinshasa Makambo nous plonge dans le combat de ces trois activistes, que ni les balles, ni la prison, ni l’exil ne semblent pouvoir arrêter...

title: Kinshasa Makambo

overview: En enero de 2015, el Presidente de la República Democrática del Congo, Joseph Kabila, recurrió a una enmienda constitucional para poder ser elegido presidente por tercera vez. Esta película documenta las manifestaciones posteriores y sigue a tres personas de la resistencia.

job: Producer

job: Sound

department: Sound

original_title: Kinshasa Makambo

production_countries: DE QA FR NO CD CH


title: Zombies

name: Are you watching this on your phone? Baloji's colourful audio-visual comment on connectivity

overview: A journey between hope and dystopia in a hallucinated Kinshasa, from the culture of the hair salon to futuristic solitary clubbing, from an urban parade to a dictator's sense of glory to a modern western in the style of Takeshi Kitano.

title: Zombies

title: Zombies

title: Zombíci

overview: Putovaní mezi nadějí a dystopií v blouznící Kinshase. Od kultury hair salonů po futuristický clubbing, od urban pochodů po nádheru diktátorů a moderního westernu. Film zkoumá intimní vztah, který máme ke svým telefonům, svým prodlouženým rukám, díky nimž můžeme naplno žít své digitální životy.

title: Zombies

title: Зомби

title: Zombies

overview: "Zombies" est un western moderne à la Takeshi Kitano, un voyage musical et dansé à travers des mondes souterrains regorgeant de lumière et des rues colorées.

title: Zombies

overview: Een reis tussen hoop en dystopie in een hallucinerend Kinshasa, van de cultuur van de kapsalon tot futuristisch eenzaam uitgaan, van een stadsparade tot het gloriegevoel van een dictator tot een moderne western in de stijl van Takeshi Kitano.

character: The Girl

character: The Boy

character: Hairdresser

character: High Heels Dancer

job: Music

job: Art Designer

department: Art

job: Screenstory

job: Production Design

original_title: Zombies

production_countries: BE CD


title: Peau de Chagrin/Bleu de Nuit

name: Baloji - Peau de Chagrin / Bleu de Nuit (With Subtitles)

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

title: Peau de Chagrin/Bleu de Nuit

title: A Pele de Onagro - O Azul da Noite

overview: "Meu amor, podemos ligar o fútil ao agradável antes que tudo seja reduzido a uma pele de onagro?"

character: The Man

job: Director

original_title: Peau de Chagrin/Bleu de Nuit


title: Never Look at the Sun

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

title: Never Look at the Sun

title: Nunca Olhe Para o Sol

overview: Padrões ancestrais combinados a preconceitos e estigmas modernos explicam o clareamento da pele.

character: Candice

character: Raphael

character: Dancer #1

character: Dancer #2

character: Dancer #3

character: Box Dancer

character: Stand-In Extra

character: Narrator (voice)

character: Voice Over

job: Author

job: Choreographer

original_title: Never Look at the Sun


title: Seen from the Outside

overview: With Vu de l'extérieur Lucile Desamory reflects on the possibilities of a distant view from inside one’s own culture. The inside is Belgium and its cultural codes. Consisting of a white box with a hidden entrance in the screen, only visible in some moments while the video is running, the installation creates a situation where inside and outside are obscured. The projection shows parts of the feature film Télé Réalité directed by Desamory, Glodie Mubikay, and Gustave Fundi: Three Congolese women are discussing a reality TV show they plan to produce in Belgium during carnival. When visitors enter the video screen, they find themselves in a secret chamber with a surveillance monitor. On it, strange characters evolve in the house where the brotherhood of the Blancs Moussis of Stavelot make and store tons and tons of confetti.

title: Seen from the Outside

original_title: Vu de l’extérieur


title: Lopango

overview: Lopango is a Congolese Short-film

title: Lopango

character: Linda Kazaï

character: Rollin Kazaï

original_title: Lopango


title: Rumba Rules, New Genealogies

overview: Rumba Rules, New Genealogies offers an enjoyable, rough-edged glimpse into the music scene of Kinshasa, with impromptu shots drawing the viewer into jam sessions on plastic chairs, and the quest for perfection at the studio.

title: Rumba Rules, New Genealogies

title: Rumba Rules, nouvelles généalogies

job: Sound Designer

job: Camera Operator

job: Sound Mixer

job: Sound Editor

original_title: Rumba Rules, New Genealogies

production_countries: BE CA CD


title: Under The White Mask: The Film That Haesaerts Could Have Made

overview: Under the White Mask: The Film Haesaerts Could Have Made uses fragments of Under the Black Mask, a 1958 film about Congolese art directed by the Belgian artist Paul Haesaerts, which has been qualified as colonial propaganda. This new film imagines what the masks – now subjects, and not objects – would say. Aimé Césaire’s Discourse on Colonialism is spoken in Lingala for the first time. This speech is still a critical mirror for Europe. Under The White Mask is limited to the elements already existing in 1958.

character: Narrator

job: Writer

job: Editor

original_title: Onder het Witte Masker: De film die Haesaerts had kunnen maken


title: Trauma

title: Trauma

overview: Nachdem Balume dem Krieg in seinem Dorf entkommen ist, kommt er seinem neuen Leben nicht zurecht.

title: Trauma

job: Director of Photography

original_title: Trauma


title: Rising Up at Night

Official Teaser

type: Teaser

overview: In Kinshasa, despite preparations for the construction of Africa's largest power station, the population often finds itself without electricity. The city's inhabitants, struggling for reliable power access, ingeniously utilize makeshift lights as essential means to survive their daily lives and maintain their ability to celebrate.

title: Rising Up at Night

title: Tongo Saa

overview: Kinshasa en zijn inwoners bevinden zich in duisternis. Ze wachten en worstelen om toegang te krijgen tot licht. Tussen hoop, teleurstelling en religieus geloof is Tongo Saa een subtiel en gefragmenteerd portret van een bevolking die, ondanks de uitdagingen, wordt gesublimeerd door de schoonheid van de nachten in Kinshasa.

title: Rising Up at Night

overview: Kinshasa y sus habitantes viven en la oscuridad. Esperan y luchan para acceder a la luz. Entre la esperanza, la decepción y la fe religiosa, “Levantándose en la noche” es un retrato sutil y fragmentado de una población que, a pesar de los desafíos, se deja sublimar por la belleza de las noches de Kinshasa.

title: Levantándose en la noche

job: Co-Producer

job: Sound Recordist

job: Screenplay

job: Original Music Composer

original_title: Tongo Saa

production_countries: BE BF CD DE QA


title: La Rançon d'une alliance

overview: A fratricide war between two tribes in the Congo in the pre-colonial period: the Tsembo and the Tsoundi. Their alliance is guaranteed by the marriage of the son and daughter of the tribes' respective rulers, but the infidelity of the wife, Hakoula, who gives herself to a slave, sparks off a war of terrible bloodshed

title: La Rançon d'une alliance

original_title: La Rançon d'une alliance

production_countries: CD CG


title: Colette and Justin

name: IDFA 2022 | Trailer | Colette and Justin

overview: This debut film by Alain Kassanda starts off as a process of self-examination: How well does he really know his grandparents? How true are his ideas about his birth country DR Congo, whose national identity was partly molded by the Belgian colonizers? And, by extension, how much does he know about himself? In Colette et Justin, Kassanda travels through time and his own past, in the process bringing postcolonial Congo to evocative life.

title: Colette and Justin

title: Colette et Justin

overview: Deze debuutfilm van Alain Kassanda begint als een proces van zelfonderzoek: hoe goed kent hij zijn grootouders echt? Hoe waar zijn zijn ideeën over zijn geboorteland DR Congo, waarvan de nationale identiteit deels werd gevormd door de Belgische kolonisatoren? En, in het verlengde daarvan, hoeveel weet hij over zichzelf? In Colette et Justin reist Kassanda door de tijd en zijn eigen verleden, en brengt zo het postkoloniale Congo tot evocatief leven.

character: self

job: Producer

job: Painter

job: Sound

job: Music

original_title: Colette et Justin

production_countries: BE FR


title: Katika Bluu

overview: Democratic Republic of Congo, 2022. Bravó, 16 years old, is exfiltrated from an armed group by the team of the Transit and Orientation Centre in order to be reintegrated into society. But the young man, who has only known war and fighting, does not submit to the rules of the centre and refuses to be treated like the other children. However, secretly he only dreams of one thing: find his family.

title: Katika Bluu

job: Director

job: Sound Effects

job: Colorist

original_title: Katika Bluu


title: Life is a Railroad

status: InProduction

overview: 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. Rémy is CEO of one of the largest mining companies in the country. His penchant for women will tarnish his relationship with his family, particularly his 12-year-old son. Muknya, a night taxi driver, dreams of reaching the Schengen area but circumstances do not make his task easy. Viya, who has just lost her father unexpectedly, will cross paths with each other.

title: Life is a Railroad

original_title: La vie est un chemin de fer

production_countries: CD FR DE CH


title: Kin’kongolo Kiniata

overview: 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 tour is within reach, then shut down by an administrative refusal - what follows will depend on a miracle.

title: Kin’kongolo Kiniata

job: Production Design

original_title: Kin’kongolo Kiniata


title: Koko Suzanne

overview: Based on true events, a young girl's life is turned upside down when her grandmother's strange behaviour sparks fears of witchcraft. As her family struggles to reconcile illness with the supernatural, she must navigate the streets of Kinshasa in order to protect the grandmother she knows and loves.

title: Koko Suzanne

character: Prisca

character: Koko Suzanne

character: Jean-Pierre

character: Vanessa

job: Co-Writer

job: Production Manager

job: Art Direction

job: First Assistant Director

original_title: Koko Suzanne


title: Wrestlers

Official Trailer

key: VUcsPQHazgE

overview: Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo. A former world champion dies in oblivion. Defying all obstacles, his fellow wrestlers organise one last battle in his honour.

title: Wrestlers

title: Catcher

title: Catcher

overview: À Kisangani, en République démocratique du Congo, Nyawunyawu, star déchue du catch, se démène avec ses compagnons de lutte pour organiser un grand tournoi sportif. Ils souhaitent rendre hommage à leur mentor décédé, Kelekele Lituka, un ancien champion du monde tombé dans l'oubli.

job: Writer

job: Director of Photography

job: Editor

original_title: Catcher

production_countries: CD BF FR


title: Son of Shadow

overview: Torn from childhood to become a soldier, Alain reveals the invisible scars of war and his struggle to find his place in a world that has cast him aside.

title: Son of Shadow

title: Fils de l’ombre

overview: Arraché à son enfance pour devenir soldat, Alain raconte ses cicatrices invisibles et son combat pour retrouver sa place dans un monde qui l’a rejeté.

original_title: Son of Shadow


title: Mobembo

overview: An artist runs out of paint days before an exhibition. Desperate for money, he decides to run a hustle: he swaps his brushes for a Bible and heads to the market, performing as a preacher. As he tries this new performance, his path crosses with a dancer.

title: Mobembo

job: Cinematography

job: Production Coordinator

original_title: Mobembo