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A collaborative list of Congo films, curated and initiated by Lys Alcayna-Stevens (University of Oxford).
Une liste collaborative de films sur le Congo, conçu et initiée par Lys Alcayna-Stevens (Université d’Oxford).
*You can also use this form to share your Congo films or recommend films by others to be featured on the CRN website.
*Vous pouvez également utiliser ce formulaire pour partager vos films sur le Congo ou recommander des films d’autres personnes à présenter sur le site web du CRN.
- The Tower: A Concrete Utopia (2016, Sammy Baloji & Filip De Boeck, 61’)
Film info | Trailer
- Un jour l’avenir nous donnera raison (2005, Marie-Françoise Plissart & Filip De Boeck)
Film info
- La vie est belle (1987, Ngangura Mweze & Benoît Lamy)
- Lumumba (2000, Raoul Peck)
- Viva Riva! (2010, Djo Tunda Wa Munga)
- Elephant’s Dream (2014, Kristof Bilsen)
Trailer
- This is Congo (2018, Daniel McCabe, BBC Storyville)
BBC page
- Benda Bilili! (2010, Renaud Barret & Florent de La Tullaye)
Trailer
- System K (2019, Renaud Barret)
Trailer
- Colette et Justin (2022, Alain Kassanda, 89’)
Trailer
- Kasongo (Im)material (Noemis Arazi & Georges Senga Assani, 39’)
- Les fantômes de Lovanium (2018, Matthias De Groof)
Film info
- We Will Win Peace (2016, directed by Seth Chase; research by Ben Radley)
Watch here
- Soundtrack to a Coup d’État (2024, Johan Grimonprez)
Film page
- When We Were Kings (1996, Leon Gast)
- Soul Power (2008, Jeff Levy-Hinte)
- Marchands de Miracle$ (2006, Gilles Remiche)
- Ghetto Millionaires (2010, Gilles Remiche)
- Enjoy Poverty (Episode III) (2009, Renzo Martens)
Info
- Le long chemin d’un salaire (2021, ARTE)
- Congo’s Extravagant Millionaires: The Crazy Lives of Africa’s Ultra-Rich (2019, Guillaume Dumant)
- Mères Chefs (2009, Haidara-Yoka C., 70’)
- D’une rive à l’autre (2014, Kifouani D.)
- Wildlife Messengers – Kahuzi-Biega (2022)
Film site
- Kongo 2019 (Hadrien La Vapeur and Corto Vaclav)
- Ordalies, le tribunal de l’invisible 2022 (Hadrien La Vapeur and CortoVaclav)
- TANTALUM (2025, Yole!Africa / CobraFilms / NIME, 16’)
- Under the White Mask (2021, MAS & CobraFilms, 9’)
- Lobi Kuna (2018, CobraFilms/Mutotu, 45’)
- Lobi (2010, Super 8, 35’)
- Palimpsest of the Africa Museum (2019, CobraFilms & Atelier Graphoui, 69’)
- Ôtre k’ôtre (2008, video installation with Mungongo Ya Sika collective)
To be continued …
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