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7.0
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/30/
70
/28/
3.9
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100
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100

Sambizanga (1973)
Domingos is a member of an African liberation movement, arrested by the Portuguese secret police, after bloody events in Angola. His wife goes from a prison station to another, trying in vain to find out where he is.
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62
32
6.3
/506/
54
/14/
59
/28/
3.6
/2170/

The Lion Has Seven Heads (1971)
A white-robed preacher wanders and sermonizes across African lands; European communists and CIA spies conspire out of mutual self-interest to engineer the appointment of an African bourgeois to a puppet government presidency; and a revolutionary group marches in exile.
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8.4
/10/
20
/1/
39
/4/

Journey to Ouaga (2001)
Lionel, a young Frenchman, who has just arrived in Cotonou, Benin, loses his car, airplane ticket and passport and his hopes in riots in the city.
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60
/1/

Grave erreur 2 (2019)
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10
/1/

The Land Below the Equator (1950)
A missionary film by photographer Sven Nykvist.
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7.1
/14/

Congo in Four Acts (2010)
A quartet of powerful, hard-hitting short films that lay bare the disturbing reality of everyday life in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Kanopy
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7.4
/35/
45
/2/
57
/3/

Silent Forests (2019)
This documentary takes audiences into the heart of Africa's Congo Basin to meet the men and women trying to save the forest elephant from extinction.
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6.8
/77/
76
/3/
20
/2/

35 Cows and a Kalashnikov (2014)
35 Cows and a Kalashnikov is a joyously made triptych about warrior-farmers, colorful dandies and voodoo wrestlers in Ethiopia, Brazzaville and Kinshasa. It paints a loving and attentive portrait of African pride and beauty.
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5.3
/15/
10
/1/
52
/4/

The Wrestlers (1982)
Set in a small village in the Congo, where one of the villagers’ favorite pastimes is either to watch or to take part in a form of very civilised "fighting" that involves two young men in loin cloths trying to flip the other to the ground. The action is over in a few seconds, and then another pair of fighters takes a turn, all the while reminded by the referee not to inflict hurt. An important match is coming up and the people in the village are backing their favourite, who spends his time in training with a Belgian coach, getting ready for the big day.
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6.6
/30/
70
/1/

Maison Tropicale (2008)
Mali born Manthia Diawara's documentary is a complement to Ângela Ferreira's artistic project on the Maison Tropicale by Jean Prouvé, which was shown at the Venice Biennale 2007.
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10
/1/

La Rançon d'une alliance (1973)
A fratricide war between two tribes in the Congo in the pre-colonial period: the Tsembo and the Tsoundi. Their alliance is guaranteed by the marriage of the son and daughter of the tribes' respective rulers, but the infidelity of the wife, Hakoula, who gives herself to a slave, sparks off a war of terrible bloodshed
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7.0
/25/

I am Chance (2022)
I am Chance follows the microcosm of a group of street savvy girls in the surprisingly bright, pop and artistic megacity of Kinshasa. Astute, sassy and resilient, Chancelvie and her friends take on the world, fighting and nurturing, stealing and sharing, turning tricks and making art. Vibrant and exuberant, Kinshasa itself becomes a character in the film, combining its voice with that of the girls.
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7.7
/30/
70
/2/
80
/1/

Congo Calling (2019)
Three Europeans in the crisis zone of eastern Congo. They want to help, but their situation is complicated. Three personal perspectives on coexistence and cooperation between Europe and Africa - and the question: how helpful is the help of the West?
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5.2
/7/
60
/1/
60
/1/

Michel-le-s (2021)
In the Republic of Congo, Michel is preparing for his baccalaureate when his brother discovers his homosexuality. Their father, a very religious man, immediately drives him out of the family home. Now on his own, Michel turns to members of the sexual and gender minority community, who take him in and do all they can to support him in this ordeal.
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6.4
/19/

Macadam Tribe (1996)
Four friends roam the streets, bars and boxing clubs in a bubbling and bewitching big African town.
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4.8
/6/
40
/1/

The Last of the Babingas (1990)
In the equatorial forest of Congo Brazzaville and the Central African Republic pygmies live. Over-exploitation and waste of resources have had a significant impact on the lives of Pygmies. The story is based on Mangala an old and wise voice of these disappearing people.
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Hoopla
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7.7
/41/
60
/3/
67
/3/

Sunday in Brazzaville (2012)
Forget about war and suffering and discover a different side of Congo. The sapeurs adhere to a subculture of high fashion. They may be surrounded by poverty but as Yves Saint Laurent, President of the Sapeur Association, explains, they're always dressed impeccably in Versace or Prada. Rapper Cheriff Bakala is working on recording his first album in a country with almost no producers. Meanwhile wrestler Palmas Ya Ya, is relying on voodoo and faith to help him defeat younger, stronger opponents...
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7.1
/63/
80
/1/

Katanga Business (2009)
After Mobutu, King of Zaire and Congo River, the Belgian director Thierry Michel pursues his exploration of Central Africa. His new documentary, entitled Katanga Business, is a kind of political economic thriller, which takes place in this south-eastern province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, one of the world’s richest regions in mining resources. While the inhabitants of Katanga continue to live in extreme poverty, multinationals are rivalled by China, newly arrived with its billions of dollars.
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83
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7.6
/148/
100
/1/
72
/5/

The Man Who Mends Women: The Wrath of Hippocrates (2015)
Winner of the Sakharov Prize 2014, Doctor Mukwege is internationally known as the man who mends thousands of women who have been raped during the 20 years of conflicts in the East of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, one of the poorest countries on the planet, despite its extremely rich sub-soil. His endless struggle to put an end to these atrocities and denounce the impunity enjoyed by the perpetrators is not welcome. At the end of 2012, the Doctor was the target of another attempt on his life, which he miraculously survived. Threatened with death, this doctor with an exceptional destiny now lives cloistered in his hospital in Bukavu under the protection of the United Nation peacekeepers. But he is no longer alone in his struggle. The women to whom he has restored physical integrity and dignity, stand beside him, true activists for peace, hungry for justice.
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30
/1/

Lopango (2013)
Lopango is a Congolese Short-film
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50
/1/
50
/1/

Fara Fara (2015)
The film follows the performative duel, or fara fara (meaning face-to-face in Lingala) between two of the DRC’s biggest stars, Koffi Olomide and Werrason. Papa Wemba announces the face-off to an enormous gathering at two adjacent stages where the superstars and their entourages compete in an epic test of musical endurance and style to see who can win by playing the longest.
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6.2
/10/
50
/3/

Atalaku (2013)
Documentary about elections in Congo.
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KM4 Blues
N/A
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BZV (2010)
A film about the result of labor. A couple uses their hard earned wages in search of furniture, citizens’ leisurely water skiing and fishing. BZV was shot in and around Brazzaville, The Republic of Congo. With a naturalistic approach, the film also interweaves various elements concerning the social and physical landscape of Brazzaville. The title is the three-letter airport code for Brazzaville.
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Wanted (2019)
The story of Venus Ngo who, after fleeing the family home, is wanted by her family who issues a notice rewarding a sum of ten million. But, Venus Ngo discovers that her father is dead and that it is her mother-in-law who is at the origin of all her misfortune. Helped by her friends, she decides to arrest her mother-in-law.
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Tenrikyo, Tradition Through Black Robe (2006)
In a popular area in the heart of Brazzaville, a customary court perpetuates an ancient legal organization embrace the forms of modern court officials. In a small building summary, when the first shot rang bell, as in theater, different cases parade before the judges in black robes: witchcraft, divorce, inheritance problem or demarcation of plots.
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Rosa-Linda (2023)
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Apacha (2022)
N/A
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Children of Congo, Listen! (2019)
This film is documents the struggles of Mr. Jean-Lucien Bussa, an idealistic member of the National Assembly, who routinely confronts his own conflicting incentives of service to others and service to his own needs. When does patronage end and corruption begin?
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The Third Way to Reach Remote Tribes (2011)
Communication is a reality of the 21st Century, even for the most isolated people. Remote tribes around the world struggle to adapt to the intrusions of the Western civilization. This film brings forward tribes scattered on 5 continents: the San of the Kalahari Desert, the native tribes from the Amazonian forest, the Inuit from the Arctic polar circle, the Pygmies of the Congo rain forest, the indigenous of the Vanuatu archipelago and the Hmong tribes from Northern Vietnam. Their contact with the white civilization throughout history followed the way of violence and the way of abandonment. 16 years ago, someone found another way: A Third Way to reach tribes. This is the story of a new approach and communication between civilizations.


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