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Life Goes On
Life Goes On
This animated short film by Carlos Kalonji was produced in Kinshasa as part of the beneficiary project Afriqu'Anim'Action, piloted by Studios Malembe Maa (Democratic Republic of Congo). ...
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C’est urgent!
C’est urgent!
"C'est urgent!", an animated short film by Armel Pululu, was made in Kinshasa between 2012 and 2013, during the Afriqu'Anim'Action project led by the Studios Malembe Maa (Democratic ...
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Children’s Game #26: Kisolo
Children’s Game #26: Kisolo
Kisolo is one of a thousand variants of the global Ur-game, Mancala, a “sowing” game sometimes still played with seeds even when using a board. Its timeless agrarian gestuary follows ...
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The Toad Who Visits His In-Laws
The Toad Who Visits His In-Laws
Rooted in the oral tale recounted by the Tetela in Sankuru, Democratic Republic of Congo, this story explains how it came to be that the Fox ate the Chicken, the Chicken ate the ...
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State of Mind: Healing Trauma
State of Mind: Healing Trauma
A layered, engrossing and intriguing look at a national collective trauma and the ambitious initiative to try and heal the wounds.
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Roger Jamar and the Palavers of Mboloko
Roger Jamar and the Palavers of Mboloko
A short documentary about Roger Jamar, the pioneer of African animated film, made by renowned Congolese animator Jean-Michel Kibushi who also oversaw the restoration of Jamar's original ...
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Sitos, Kinshasa sur le qui-vive
Sitos, Kinshasa sur le qui-vive
In Kinshasa, "Zagué" saturates the sound of the working class neighborhoods, broadcast by the DJs who hold their broadcasting booths in the street and thus indicate, through sound, the ...
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Kinshasa Palace
Kinshasa Palace
The filmmaker searches for his brother Max, who left his children without explanation. The brothers grew up in the Congo with their white father and Congolese mother. He visits their ...
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Ladies in Waiting
Ladies in Waiting
Taking in the wives of the unemployed, of unpaid government employees, the Kitambo maternity clinic in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo has to cope with its patients' lack of ...
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Children’s Game #29: La roue
Children’s Game #29: La roue
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 clandestins, lithium hunters who risk their lives to ...
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The Draughtsmen Clash
The Draughtsmen Clash
This film tells the story of the president of a fictitious African nation who spends a sleepless night playing checkers with a pot-smoking vagabond who claims to be the all-round ...
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Children’s Game #28: Nzango
Children’s Game #28: Nzango
Born in the recent past in school playgrounds and now a national sport, Nzango is a female-only game. The aim is to imitate, or more mysteriously, anticipate, the leg movements of the ...
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Rêve de chien
Rêve de chien
"Rêve de chien", an animated short film by Jourdain Kielukusu Izu Di Do, was made in Kinshasa between 2012 and 2013, during the Afriqu'Anim'Action project led by the Studios Malembe Maa ...
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Children’s Game #36: Kujunkuluka
Children’s Game #36: Kujunkuluka
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 still upright; but it’s only, always, ...
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Impokotoyi
Impokotoyi
Ndoko, a hard-headed little girl, has disobeyed her mother once again. Then she learns that her baby brother has been abducted by a cannibal monster. Ndoko leaves to save the poor thing ...
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Children’s Game #27: Rubi
Children’s Game #27: Rubi
With all the charm of flick soccer, Subbuteo, pinball, and other miniature passions, this is played on a small circle of stubby broken-off sticks like a frontier fort buried in the ...
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Kukinga
Kukinga
In a little town in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, an armed band emerges and raids the classes in a school. Narrated by a child who witnesses the horror of mining for the ...
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Table 23
Table 23
Meli finds Chirac, and the two lovers are very happy to meet up after a long time and decide to catch up. The adventure becomes hard to continue when Chirac announces to his sweetheart ...
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Fara Fara
Fara Fara
The film follows the performative duel, or fara fara (meaning face-to-face in Lingala) between two of the DRC’s biggest stars, Koffi Olomide and Werrason. Papa Wemba announces the ...
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The White Blood
The White Blood
The links of white blood Since the dawn of human history, blood has been considered the most vital ingredient of "white" civilisation, probably because it could not escape the remark of ...
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Lumene: Privatisation
Lumene: Privatisation
In this documentary essay, Congolese artist David Shongo addresses the problems of knowledge production and asks the important question of how it was influenced permanently and ...