LINGALA MOVIES

Peau de Chagrin/Bleu de Nuit
2018
The Congolese-Belgian artist Baloji looks at Congolese pygmy wedding traditions.
Never Look at the Sun
2024
Ancestral patterns combined with modern prejudices and stigma explain skin bleaching.
Félicité
2017
Félicité, a strong and proud woman, sings in bars in Kinshasa. She drifts away from reality when her 14-year-old son get...
Sambizanga
1973
Domingos is a member of an African liberation movement, arrested by the Portuguese secret police, after bloody events in...
Zombies
2019
A journey between hope and dystopia in a hallucinated Kinshasa, from the culture of the hair salon to futuristic solitar...
Katika Bluu
2023
Democratic Republic of Congo, 2022. Bravó, 16 years old, is exfiltrated from an armed group by the team of the Transit a...
Kinshasa Makambo
2018
Christian, Ben and Jean-Marie are fighting for political change of power and free elections in their country, the Democr...
Rising Up at Night
2024
In Kinshasa, despite preparations for the construction of Africa's largest power station, the population often finds its...
Rumba Rules, New Genealogies
2020
Rumba Rules, New Genealogies offers an enjoyable, rough-edged glimpse into the music scene of Kinshasa, with impromptu s...
Wrestlers
2025
Kisangani, DR Congo. A former world champion dies in oblivion. Defying all obstacles, his fellow wrestlers organize one ...
Kaka-Yo
1965
Vibrant love story, which means "Just You" in Lingala, intersperses modern life, the youth of Brazzaville at the time, t...
Seen from the Outside
2020
With Vu de l'extérieur Lucile Desamory reflects on the possibilities of a distant view from inside one’s own culture. Th...
Colette and Justin
2022
This debut film by Alain Kassanda starts off as a process of self-examination: How well does he really know his grandpar...
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 ...
Lopango
2013
Lopango is a Congolese Short-film
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...
Life is a Railroad
Christine is head of the financial department at the Kintambo maternity ward. Her job is to ensure that all patients hav...