Congolese documentary filmmaker Nelson Makengo, whose feature debut, “Rising Up at Night,” won the Special Jury Award at Swiss doc fest Visions du Réel this year, is producing the Kinshasa-set ...
CANNES (Hollywood Reporter) - Four paraplegics and three "abled" men with homemade instruments make the sweetest music on the "meanest streets" in the Congo. A rousing depiction of unimaginable ...
Photojournalist and artist Richard Mosse spent some time in the Eastern Congo where he created The Enclave (2009), a film about the landscape and the people affected by the ongoing conflict in the ...
History isn’t fixed. It has a rhythm and a flow that shifts according to who’s telling the story, who’s listening, and the medium via which that story is being told. True consensus is ever elusive, ...
“A botched independence swiftly followed by army mutinies and attempted secession by two renegade provinces, egged on by a colonial power. A charismatic black leader who comes to a sticky end, aged ...
Human rights groups have accused the army of using rape as a weapon, but military leaders objected to the film as slanderous, said Thierry Michel, the film's Belgian co-producer. Democratic Republic ...
Eric Metzgar said no the first time he was approached to shoot and direct "Reporter." The assignment, to follow Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof on a reporting trip ...
This is my country: jubilant Congolese citizen Ambroise Boimbo seizes the ceremonial sword of Belgium's King Baudouin I (in white) in Léopoldville (Kinshasa) on 29 ...
KINSHASA (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo on Wednesday banned a documentary film about a doctor who treats war rape victims, leading the film makers to say the government was trying to silence ...