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Congo
Boulistes en Coupable
Country:Congo
Director:Ameur Saveur
Year:
2009
Duration:
83
Summary:
Amour Saveur is the inventor of a new African genre, the ultra short bizarre comedy, which he makes together with his collective les Boulistes.
Congo in Four Acts
Country:Congo
Director:K. Siku, D. Wa Lusala, D. Hamadi
Year:
2010
Duration:
69
Summary:
A quartet of powerful, hardhitting short films that lay bare the disturbing reality ofeveryday life in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Ramata
Country:Congo
Director:Leandre Alain Baker
Year:
2009
Duration:
90
Summary:
Ramata is married to a Minister of Justice. She is forced to confront this unsatisfactory image of her marriage when she meets a mysterious hustler.
Kinshasa Symphony
Director:Claus Wischmann & Martin Baer
Year:
2009
Duration:
95
Summary:
People in one of the world’s most chaotic cities do their best to maintain one of the most complex systems of joint human endeavour: a symphony orchestra. The film is about the Congo, the people in Kinshasa and the power of music.
Tenrikyo, Tradition Through Black Robe
Country:Congo
Director:Mesmer Rufin Mbou Mikima
Program:African Panorama
Year:
2006
Duration:
60
Summary:
Although common law is not recognized in Congolese law, it is still firmly rooted in all strata of society. The population adheres to the procedures that are governed by rituals and were passed on from one generation to the next. The modern, official courts of justice have no choice but to grin and bear it. The judges in the common law courts might look like their more official counterparts, but in reality they are unschooled and donate their services voluntarily. The film depicts a number of cases in which emotionally sensitive family disputes are settled in common law court.
Le Clandestin
Country:Congo
Director:Zeka Laplaine
Year:
1996
Duration:
15
Summary:
Zeka Laplaine’s strongest work is a burlesque parallel workout that combines edgy African urbanism with a silent Chaplin comedy. “I am very drawn to comedy, even for serious subjects, like in Le Clandestin. I don't think you get the message over any better if you dress the film up to be really didactic!
Kinshasa, Septembre Noir
Country:Congo
Director:Jean Michel Kibushi
Year:
1992
Duration:
7
Summary:
Jean Michel Kibushi has distinguished himself as one of the most outstanding animators to come out of Africa. The very early work made in Congo already indicates his imagination and daring. This film was made during a children’s workshop and was conceived as an homage to the griot musician Djamba Shongo Yodi who was killed by the Congolese military in the course of the bloody events that occured in Kinshasa in September 1991. The film is made in a very elemental manner with simple line drawings that appear like reporter’s dispatches of late breaking news on the streets of Kinshasa.
