Democratic Republic of the Congo Movies

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

Between Belgian colonial archives and images shot in the present, the violence of a dehumanizing economic system is revealed through the story of a...

Kin Kiesse is a 1982 documentary film about "Kin" (Kinshasa), the capital of Zaire, and the capital of paradoxes and excesses, commentated on by one...

The Libende Boyz are young rappers from Beni in the DRC, who are trying at all costs to bring a form of artistic expression to life in an environment...

Rodrigue and Reine live with their three children in Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic. They make their living from a meager yield...

In this documentary essay, Congolese artist David Shongo addresses the problems of knowledge production and asks the important question of how it was...

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....

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...

Photographer and visual artist Sammy Baloji’s fascinating film essay explores the Democratic Republic of Congo’s colonial history and its...

Many of us played this as kids, spinning on the spot until collapsing. In a group there’s a competitive element, each tries to be the last one...

Moise Katumbi Chapwe is an Italian Sephardic Jew on his father's side and a Congolese on his mother's side. He is the Congolese personality who most...

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...

In Kinshasa, rumor has it that the constitution includes 14 articles. And in order to face the increasing poverty of the people, politicians who have...

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

French couple Jean and Marie go on their honeymoon in Jean's hometown in Africa. They end up in the middle of a tense political situation as soon as...

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

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

When he was three years old, Dominique Bikaba’s family was expelled from their ancestral land in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo....

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...