Poised between documentary and fiction, "Kinshasa Kids" benefits greatly from both; its open approach to its non-pro Congolese actors never seems scripted, and its clear narrative throughline never ...

“The white man’s filming!” a cop complains early in Kinshasa Kids, sharking toward the camera as the vibrant tumult of the Congo’s largest city convulses undisturbed around him. The camera stays on as ...

Marc-Henri Wajnberg blends fiction with documentary in Congo quasi-musical. By THR Staff NEW YORK — Gripping in its depiction of the plight of “shegué” children in Kinshasa, who live on the streets by ...

In the heart of the nation's capital, in a courthouse of the U.S. government, one man will stop at nothing to keep his honor, and one will stop at nothing to find the truth.

As the images fade on the crumpled sheet doubling as a movie screen, 400 exuberant teenagers clap hands to the beat of the closing number of "Kinshasa Kids", the award-winning movie finally come home.

Despite horrific abuses perpetrated on women and children, the atrocities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) rarely make international headlines. Kinshasa, the DRC's capital, is always ...

Weaving in and out between documentary and drama, Belgian director Marc-Henri Wajnberg’s first feature for almost 20 years tells the sometimes horrifying, sometimes uplifting story of a group of ...

04/09/2012 - Marc-Henri Wajnberg delivers a musical ad-lib set to the frantic beat of the Congolese capital’s street children. A success. About 25,000 children live in the streets of the capital of ...