Congolese artist Sammy Baloji's first documentary The Tree of Authenticity fuses images and sounds, and features a talking tree as its narrator, to highlight the connection between Democratic Republic ...

Congolese documentary filmmaker Nelson Makengo, whose feature debut, “Rising Up at Night,” won the Special Jury Award at Swiss doc fest Visions du Réel this year, is producing the Kinshasa-set ...

When the Six-Day War broke out in his native Congo two decades ago, documentary filmmaker Dieudo Hamadi—whose film “Downstream to Kinshasa” is the first Congolese film to be an official selection in ...

During the Six Day War, Rwandan and Ugandan armies clashed in the Congolese city of Kisangani, leaving behind a large population of disabled citizens, suffering from severed limbs. The government ...

The film centres around the victims of the Six-Day War in Kisangani, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (the setting of heavily armed conflict between the Ugandan and Rwandan armies from 5 – 10 ...

Congolese director Dieudo Hamadi sees his selection on the 2025 Cannes Film Festival jury as "recognition for a career" spent chronicling the traumas of his native Democratic Republic of Congo. Across ...

It takes some time to get going, but once the pieces fall into place, "Kinshasa Palace" becomes an engrossing study of displacement and the corrosive ramifications of the recent African diaspora.

In this 2009 documentary, African musicians are rehearsing the last movement of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony for an upcoming outdoor concert in Kinshasa, capital of Zaire. Some, having lost instruments ...

In June of 2000, the Six-Day War between Rwanda and Uganda raged across the city of Kisangani in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In Downstream to Kinshasa, the first ever Congolese film selected for ...

For two decades, the victims of the Six-Day War have been fighting in Kisangani for the recognition of this bloody conflict and demanding compensation. Tired of unsuccessful pleas, they have finally ...