01 A Kinshasa bar singer races across the city's underworld to raise money for her injured son's surgery.
DR Congo Drama intensethought provoking
The Democratic Republic of Congo’s two best-known films couldn’t be more different in tone, a pulpy Kinshasa crime thriller and a quiet, unsentimental drama about a mother chasing an impossible medical bill.
01 A Kinshasa bar singer races across the city's underworld to raise money for her injured son's surgery.
02 A fuel smuggler flush with stolen gasoline and cash draws the attention of gangsters and corrupt soldiers alike across Kinshasa.
03 A homeless teenage girl surviving on Kinshasa's streets is drawn into a dangerous cycle of exploitation and survival.
04 A collective of Kinshasa street artists turns the city's chaos and waste into raw, defiant works of art.
05 Three young activists risk their lives organizing pro-democracy protests against an entrenched Congolese regime.
06 An exiled Congolese king travels to Belgium searching for his daughter and confronts a painful colonial past.