Movies: Congo

  • 2023
    Nkumi, everyday life

    Nkumi, everyday life (2023)

    Nkumi, everyday life

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    Short ethnographic documentary showing some everyday life scenes based upon footage shot by director Luc de Heusch in Congo in 1954 reassembled by Damien Mottier (Université Paris Nanterre) and Grace Winter (CINEMATEK)....

    Nkumi, everyday life
  • 2010
    Congo in Four Acts

    Congo in Four Acts (2010)

    Congo in Four Acts

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    A quartet of powerful, hard-hitting short films that lay bare the disturbing reality of everyday life in the Democratic Republic of Congo....

    Congo in Four Acts
  • 2019
    Congo: A Journey to the Heart of Africa

    Congo: A Journey to the Heart of Africa (2019)

    Congo: A Journey to the Heart of Africa

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    The Democratic Republic of the Congo is a vast, mineral rich country the size of Western Europe. Alastair Leithead takes an epic journey from the Atlantic Ocean to the far reaches of the Congo river to explore how history has shaped the Congo of toda...

    Congo: A Journey to the Heart of Africa
  • 1934
    Burnt Earth

    Burnt Earth (1934)

    Burnt Earth

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    A visual travel diary on the expedition led by Brondeel in 1934. This expedition to Belgian Congo, by truck, became a testimony to the social conditions of Africans during the colonial era....

    Burnt Earth
  • 2015
    John Bishop's Gorilla Adventure

    John Bishop's Gorilla Adventure (2015)

    John Bishop's Gorilla Adventure

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    John Bishop encounters one of the most endangered animals on Earth, and discovers they and his family have more in common than he ever imagined. Filming in the jungles of Rwanda for John Bishop’s Gorilla Adventure, the comedian realises adolescent ma...

    John Bishop's Gorilla Adventure
  • 2006
    Det danske Congo-Æventyr - Opdagerne

    Det danske Congo-Æventyr - Opdagerne (2006)

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    Det danske Congo-Æventyr - Opdagerne
  • 1970
    The Magic Tree

    The Magic Tree (1970)

    The Magic Tree

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    When the neglected and unloved brother Mavungu finally leaves home, he finds a tree blocking the river and frees the people imprisoned within the tree. Based on a folk tale from the Congo....

    The Magic Tree
  • 2023
    Lotoko

    Lotoko (2023)

    Lotoko

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    Short ethnographic documentary showing a leopard dance based upon footage shot by director Luc de Heusch in Congo in 1954 reassembled by Damien Mottier (Université Paris Nanterre) and Grace Winter (CINEMATEK)....

    Lotoko
  • 2015
    Coeur noir, homme blanc

    Coeur noir, homme blanc (2015)

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    Coeur noir, homme blanc
  • 2013
    Maman Marie Thérèse : retour à l'essentiel

    Maman Marie Thérèse : retour à l'essentiel (2013)

    Maman Marie Thérèse : retour à l'essentiel

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    Maman Marie Thérèse : retour à l'essentiel
  • 2017
    Congo, My Precious

    Congo, My Precious (2017)

    Congo, My Precious

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    The Democratic Republic of Congo in Africa is one of the world’s most resource-rich countries. A wide range of rare minerals can be found here in abundance, all commanding high prices in world commodity markets. Diamonds for jewellery, tantalum, tung...

    Congo, My Precious
  • 1970
    Young Girls, Watch Out!

    Young Girls, Watch Out! (1970)

    Young Girls, Watch Out!

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    A young girl succumbs to the charm of a Don Juan who abandons her after having given her a child....

    Young Girls, Watch Out!
  • 2006
    Det danske Congo-Æventyr - Erobrerne

    Det danske Congo-Æventyr - Erobrerne (2006)

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    Det danske Congo-Æventyr - Erobrerne
  • 2006
    Det danske Congo-Æventyr - Hjælperne

    Det danske Congo-Æventyr - Hjælperne (2006)

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    Det danske Congo-Æventyr - Hjælperne
  • 2019
    Through the Path of Darkness

    Through the Path of Darkness (2019)

    Through the Path of Darkness

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    In search of glory, Portuguese Major Afonso Ferreira sees himself consumed in the deepest darkness of the Congo....

    Through the Path of Darkness
  • 2009
    Weapon of War: Confessions of rape in Congo

    Weapon of War: Confessions of rape in Congo (2009)

    Weapon of War: Confessions of rape in Congo

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    Wherever war breaks out, men with guns rape. During the decades of conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo possibly hundreds of thousands of women and girls were brutally raped. In WEAPON OF WAR military perpetrators unveil what lies behind this...

    Weapon of War: Confessions of rape in Congo
  • 2014
    Kongoveteranerna

    Kongoveteranerna (2014)

    Kongoveteranerna

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    Over 6,000 men served and 19 fell in the Congo Battalion (1960-64), Sweden's most dramatic and contentious UN operation. Many of the participants have borne the experience as a lifelong, well-hidden trauma. A visit to the Congo after fifty years caus...

    Kongoveteranerna
  • 2017
    Girl Fact

    Girl Fact (2017)

    Girl Fact

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    In the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, rape has been used as a weapon of war for more than 15 years. Martha writes a teenage girl’s guide to surviving sex slavery....

    Girl Fact
  • 2014
    Prince

    Prince (2014)

    Prince

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    A man performs the same ritual every day: he cleans his shoes, dresses up in his shiny blue suit, wears his white gloves and grey hat, and spends his time walking around Brazzaville. His presence generates an absurd apparition in the urban chaos of t...

    Prince