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- After the second Congo war breaks out in the late 1990s, the Mingolo family decide to get little Londri, aged seven, out of the country to save his life and give him an opportunity for a better future.
- Riva returns to his home town of Kinshasa to sell fuel, however the people whom he stole it from are close behind and when Riva tries to get with a girl her crime boss boyfriend isn't too happy about this.
- Kinshasa, DRCongo, 2005: Benda Bilili, poor paraplegic street musicians, get noticed by a French film team. Studio recordings get their music out on album and 2009, they have concerts in Europe.
- A Congolese man runs from a terrible accident and finds himself at a revolutionary camp, where he is told that he has a great destiny. Now, he must face his fears and his shame, but also his magnificent possibilities.
- An 'afronaut' emerges from the wreckage of a spaceship in the volcanic crater of Mount Nyiragongo. Descending into the city below, encountering the people of Goma, he begins to understand what he must do.
- An animation film that captures a moment in the true-life story of Ota Benga (1883-1916), the pygmy who was exhibited at the Bronx Zoo. Desperate to return home to the rain forest in Congo but trapped in Lynchburg, Virginia, Ota Benga reflects on being bought by the so-called 'civilised society' and treated like an animal. A passionate call by the fire to return to his ancestors.
- A young woman lives under control of a Artificial Intelligence Her all life is broadcasted as it happens on smartphones, tabs and television. She start to feel uncomfortable with this lifestyle.
- A re-edited version of Joris Postema's Stop Filming Us, Vivuya and Twahirwa's film takes a closer look at the imbalance of power inherited from colonialism and its consequences on the representation of the DRC, cinematic and otherwise.
- Documentary about the Democratic Republic of Congo when Joseph Kabila sought a constitutional amendment that would allow him to be elected president for a third term. The film follows three protagonists of the resistance.
- Impregnated and rejected by her late father's untrustworthy friend, a woman brings up her triplet daughters to seek vengeance on her behalf.
- Captain Thomas Sankara was the leader of the Burkinabe Revolution. This film is a biographical profile of the revolutionary, the improvements he generated in his country and the new socio-political dimension he instituted in Burkina Faso.
- Forest dwellers pound drums upholding rituals while urbanites cry "Progress!" More plunder the land's riches but newly defiant ones shout back.
- A day in the life of three street kids in the Eastern Congo. Featuring music by Dirty Beaches.
- Maki'la has been living on the streets of the Congolese capital for a long time. She spends most of her time with a group of young criminals, who use the street as a stage to display their mostly stolen designer fashions. She is married to Mbingazor, the leader of the gang, who spends his time getting high or drunk. With little-to-no money for food, Maki finds life tough. Her frustration finally sees her coerce other street children to steal for her. When she encounters Acha, a fresh-faced new arrival from a faraway village, Maki not only encourages her to steal but the two become inseparable. Unfortunately, Mbingazor suspects that they are having a romantic relationship. Such rivalry can be deadly, as Bahango's riveting film shows.
- As dusk fades and another night without electricity falls, Kinshasa's neighborhoods reveal an environment of violence, political conflict, and uncertainty over the building of a hydroelectric dam.
- Tomi is preparing to regain his freedom when he is confronted with an uncertain future. In his projection, he is alone without family or a home. In the quest for happiness, he will meet a special person and renew his passion.
- John of God is the world's greatest musician...in his own mind. When an American film maker is sent to Kinshasa - DR Congo to do a 'tell all' story about him, his talent is put to the test.
- Confronts the history and legacy of colonial views of Africa.
- Two missionaries, one American, the other African, struggle to become true companions. As they build an orphanage in the Congo, the American opens his heart to a beautiful nation and people on the brink of magnificent possibilities.
- Akonic Entertainment, Akon & Nickie Shapira's television production company from the United States, makes their way to the beautiful lands of the Democratic Republic of Congo to find their next superstar! We're looking for the best talent in all of the country as cameras fly to the major four provinces to find them! Who will it be?
- Olive, a student at Kinshasa University, will do anything to escape the shantytown in Bandal where she grew up. During a private evening in a fashionable area, the attractive young woman meets Marcus Paterne, a rich and powerful businessmen. This older man showers her with gifts.
- A gangster who makes fake money changes his lifestyle after meeting and falling in love with a devout Christian single mother, but trouble comes to them when his past catches up to him.
- A view of life in a Congolese maternity ward. Many mothers cannot leave the hospital after giving birth because they cannot pay the bill.
- Kongo is writing a book on the subject of immigrants but while his editor wants a kind of traveler's book in which ethnic exotic ingredients are offered to a European audience, Kongo has more ambitious ideas - he conceives of the idea of writing a book that follows the paths of Congolese history and its many ghosts. A brave and powerful film, made with single-mind integrity. Filmed mainly in the Congo, the film also provides a slice of life of the contemporary Congolese community in Brussels.
- 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 mother, who still lives in Kinshasa, and their father in Lisbon, as well as the extended family in France and Belgium. His search even takes him to Cambodia where Max was spotted. This fiction film is based on, and uses, the filmmaker's own family.