title: Arlette. Courage is a muscle

status: Released

name: Arlette - Courage is a muscle (Original Version with English subtitles)

site: YouTube

type: Trailer

overview: A pain management specialist in a Berlin hospital laments how difficult it is to see if black skin has turned blue. The patient, 15year old Arlette, doesn’t understand German. Her knee was injured in the war, and unknown wealthy Germans have helped pay for her trip to have surgery in Europe.  The camera follows Arlette on her journey, from her worried family in Central African Republic to the desolate rooms of the hospital and the rehabilitation centre. The girl’s gaze is captivating but impenetrable, and the easily bored teenager surrounded by adult strangers is only cheered up by an interpreter who knows her mother tongue. The story takes a gloomier turn when it transpires that rebel forces have taken up arms in Arlette’s home country.

title: Arlette. Courage is a muscle

character: Herself

type: Cast

job: Cinematography

department: Crew

type: Crew

job: Editor

department: Editing

job: Producer

department: Production

job: Director

department: Directing

original_title: Arlette. Mut ist ein Muskel.

original_language: sg

title: Arlette. Courage is a Muscle

country: FI

production_countries: DE CH


title: All Are Human

type: Poster

overview: In The Central African Republic, the lives of a Christian rebel soldier, a rebel’s wife, and a Muslim doctor intertwine in a true story of violence and redemption.

title: All Are Human

character: Julius

character: Claire

character: Ismael

character: Augustine

job: Writer

department: Writing

job: Director of Photography

department: Camera

original_title: Zo Kwe Zo

production_countries: CF US


title: Wakis, Tree Hunter

name: VdR2020 | Carte Blanche | Tanguy Djaka Yarissi | Wakis, chasseur d'arbres

type: Featurette

overview: Wakis, a lumberjack in the Central African Republic, works with his family collecting wood to process into charcoal. But faced with its increasing scarcity—and to avoid conflicts with his neighbours—he must “hunt” trees further and further away from his production site. Tanguy Djaka Yarissi creates an accurate social chronicle about the insecurity of a traditional trade. – Emmanuel Chicon

title: Wakis, Tree Hunter

original_title: Wakis, chasseur d'arbres

production_countries: CF FR


title: Boyi-biyo

title: Double poumon

overview: Le récit d'ennui domestique d'un pousseur de viande centrafricain qui rêve de devenir marathonien.

title: Boyi-biyo

job: Sound

department: Sound

original_title: Boyi-biyo

title: Double Lung

country: GB


title: Eat Bitter

type: Backdrop

overview: A local construction worker and a Chinese engineer are assigned to build a bank in Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic, one of the poorest countries in the world. But time is short and resources are scarce, and there are rumours in the countryside that a new civil war is brewing. And as if all this wasn’t bad enough, their relationships to their wives are falling apart. ‘Eat Bitter’ mirrors the existential and mundane problems of the two men, while an unlikely friendship and mutual trust blossoms between them. However, the chaotic microcosm of the construction site also mirrors China’s contradictory role in 21st century Africa, with the bank itself as the ultimate symbol of money, power and illusion. Director duo Pascale Appora-Gnekindy and Ningyi Sun themselves represent each of the two cultures, and their film has a unique eye for the human fallibility and irony of it all, but also for how we can reach each other despite all our many differences.

title: Eat Bitter

title: 견디는 삶

overview: 중앙아프리카공화국의 수도, 방기. 한때 내전으로 모든 것이 파괴된 이곳에 건축 붐이 일고 있다. 그 가운데 새로운 제방을 짓는 공사에 뛰어든 한 중국인 건축업자와 현지 노동자들. 그들이 바라는 것은 모두 더 나은 삶과 진보이다. 하지만 새로운 내전과 코로나19의 그림자가 드리우고, 계획은 점점 꼬여만 간다.

job: Executive Producer

job: Co-Producer

job: Music

job: Original Music Composer

original_title: Eat Bitter


title: Room N°1

overview: In Room n°1, inside the Trauma department of the Bangui Community Hospital, ten women are waiting. Between suffering, melancholy and laughs, they're waiting to be released. Through this room, it is a whole portrait of the Central Africain Republic and its women, whose vitaly transcends their misfortunes.

title: Room N°1

original_title: Room N°1


title: Ouali-gara - La commerçante

overview: In the past, Nina was prosperous, with cassava piling up in her house up to the ceiling. But since the crisis, she's been reduced to selling a few vegetables that barely bring in any income. She doesn't even have the few pennies that would allow her to buy merchandise. However, Nina is not one to give up easily. She gathers her courage and embarks on the journey to reclaim her business.

title: Ouali-gara - La commerçante

original_title: Ouali-gara - La commerçante


title: Congo Boy

overview: Bangui, Central African Republic. 17 year-old Robert dreams of a career in music, but civil war is tearing the country apart. When both his parents are thrown into prison, he is left to look after his four younger siblings on his own, juggling daily life, odd jobs, school exams and concert stages, determined to follow his dream.

title: Congo Boy

overview: Bangui. Robert a 17 ans et rêve de faire carrière dans la musique. Mais il n'est pas un Centrafricain comme les autres. Il est un réfugié congolais. Lorsque ses parents sont arrêtés, il doit s'occuper seul de ses quatre jeunes frère et sœurs. Il jongle alors entre petits boulots et révisions du bac, tout en évitant les milices qui font régner la terreur dans la ville. Un jour, il apprend qu'un concours musical est organisé. Gagner devient son seul espoir.

title: 콩고 보이

title: 刚果男孩

title: Congo Boy

character: Robert

character: Espérance

character: Daniel

character: Aurélie

character: Jacqueline

character: César

character: The Father

character: Zara

character: The Colonel

character: The Mother

character: Showrunner

character: Hermine

character: Veyzo

character: KMJ

job: Gaffer

department: Lighting

job: Songs

job: Color Grading

job: Co-Writer

job: First Assistant Director

job: Casting

job: Extras Casting

job: Costume Design

department: Costume & Make-Up