Democratic Republic of the Congo Movies

  • 2016
    City of Joy

    City of Joy

    City of Joy

    7.4522016HD

    The Democratic Republic of Congo has endured 20 years of devastating violence. Rape has been used as a weapon of war to destroy community and access...

    City of Joy
  • 2023
    Omen

    Omen

    Omen

    6.3082023HD

    Between Brussels, Kinshasa and Lubumbashi, Augure borrows from magic realism to paint a portrait of “undesirables” and...

    Omen
  • 1987
    Life Is Rosy

    Life Is Rosy

    Life Is Rosy

    6.21987HD

    A young man with dreams of pursuing a career in music moves form his small village to the capital. Along the way he falls head over heels for a...

    Life Is Rosy
  • 2019
    Zombies

    Zombies

    Zombies

    6.12019HD

    A journey between hope and dystopia in a hallucinated Kinshasa, from the culture of the hair salon to futuristic solitary clubbing, from an urban...

    Zombies
  • 2022
    Empire of Silence

    Empire of Silence

    Empire of Silence

    8.22022HD

    For 25 years, the Democratic Republic of Congo has been ravaged by a war that has largely been ignored by the media and the international community....

    Empire of Silence
  • 2022
    Tozoom

    Tozoom

    Tozoom

    102022HD

    Tozoom site Africa conceals treasures that ignite the imagination of travellers, but also that of all... Who has not dreamed of this magical...

    Tozoom
  • 2022
    We, Students!

    We, Students!

    We, Students!

    72022HD

    Nestor, Aaron, Benjamin and Rafiki are economics undergraduates at the University of Bangui. Navigating between the overcrowded classrooms, the petty...

    We, Students!
  • 2024
    Rising Up at Night

    Rising Up at Night

    Rising Up at Night

    02024HD

    Kinshasa and its inhabitants are in darkness. They wait and struggle to get access to light. Between hope, disappointment and religious faith, Tongo...

    Rising Up at Night
  • 1996
    Macadam Tribe

    Macadam Tribe

    Macadam Tribe

    01996HD

    Four friends roam the streets, bars and boxing clubs in a bubbling and bewitching big African town.

    Macadam Tribe
  • 2023
    Lumumba, return of a hero

    Lumumba, return of a hero

    Lumumba, return of a hero

    02023HD

    61 years after his assassination, Patrice Lumumba returns to his country. "Congo returns to Congo" as one of his children said. Lumumba was a...

    Lumumba, return of a hero
  • 2024
    Which Way Africa?

    Which Way Africa?

    Which Way Africa?

    02024HD

    Forest dwellers pound drums upholding rituals while urbanites cry "Progress!" More plunder the land's riches but newly defiant ones shout back.

    Which Way Africa?
  • 2002
    (Paris: XY)

    (Paris: XY)

    (Paris: XY)

    12002HD

    Max wakes up one morning and discovers that his wife Hélène has left him in his sleep, without a word, taking their two children with...

    (Paris: XY)
  • 2021
    Children’s Game #26: Kisolo

    Children’s Game #26: Kisolo

    Children’s Game #26: Kisolo

    02021HD

    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...

    Children’s Game #26: Kisolo
  • 1991
    10,000 Years of Cinema

    10,000 Years of Cinema

    10,000 Years of Cinema

    01991HD

    This documentary offers the reflections of filmmakers shot at FESPACO 1991. Djibril Diop Mambéty, David Achkar, Moussa Sene Absa, Mambaye...

    10,000 Years of Cinema
  • 2005
    The Garden

    The Garden

    The Garden

    02005HD

    French couple Jean and Marie go on their honeymoon in Jean's hometown in Africa. They end up in the middle of a tense political situation as soon as...

    The Garden
  • 2018
    Peau de Chagrin/Bleu de Nuit

    Peau de Chagrin/Bleu de Nuit

    Peau de Chagrin/Bleu de Nuit

    62018HD

    The Congolese-Belgian artist Baloji looks at Congolese pygmy wedding traditions.

    Peau de Chagrin/Bleu de Nuit
  • 2007
    Juju Factory

    Juju Factory

    Juju Factory

    5.92007HD

    Kongo lives in Brussels, in the « Matongé » district on which he is writing a book. His editor wants a kind of traveller’s...

    Juju Factory
  • 2023
    The Burden

    The Burden

    The Burden

    82023HD

    Rodrigue and Reine live with their three children in Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic. They make their living from a meager yield...

    The Burden
  • 2021
    Children’s Game #29: La roue

    Children’s Game #29: La roue

    Children’s Game #29: La roue

    02021HD

    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...

    Children’s Game #29: La roue
  • 1970
    The Corridor

    The Corridor

    The Corridor

    01970HD

    When he was three years old, Dominique Bikaba’s family was expelled from their ancestral land in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo....

    The Corridor