When the Six-Day War broke out in his native Congo two decades ago, documentary filmmaker Dieudo Hamadi—whose film “Downstream to Kinshasa” is the first Congolese film to be an official selection in ...

In June of 2000, the Six-Day War between Rwanda and Uganda raged across the city of Kisangani in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In Downstream to Kinshasa, the first ever Congolese film selected for ...

Downstream to Kinshasa by Dieudo Hamadi For the very first time, French international sales agent AndanaFilms (steered by Stephan Riguet) will boast a film in Cannes’ Official Selection and a double ...

Viva Riva! breaks taboos with impetuous fluency, bringing explicit sex and violence faster than a kung-fu film to the African screen. The feature-length début by Congolese director Djo Tunda Wa Munga ...

True/False Documentary Festival award winner Dieudo Hamadi exposes the political crisis in the Congo through the stories of three young political activists in 'Kinshasa Makambo'. By Clarence Tsui ...

film profile] is by far the Belgian project with the most unlikely background: it’s a film about 1980s Iraq, shot in Malta by a New Zealand-born director, starring a British actor and French actress, ...

Le gouvernement congolais a finalement levé, lundi, l’interdiction du documentaire « L’homme qui répare les femmes », consacré à Denis Mukwege, chirurgien, gynécologue obstétricien, qui vient en aide ...

The film was shown at Film Africa in London and can be viewed on the Franco-German channel Arte. Do you have plans to show it in Africa? It's already been shown in South Africa at a festival, and we ...

During the Six Day War, Rwandan and Ugandan armies clashed in the Congolese city of Kisangani, leaving behind a large population of disabled citizens, suffering from severed limbs. The government ...