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The Republic of the Congo is a country located on the western coast of Central Africa to the west of the Congo River. It is bordered to the west by Gabon, to the northwest by Cameroon, to the northeast by the Central African Republic, to the southeast by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the south by the Angolan exclave of Cabinda, and to the southwest by the Atlantic Ocean. The region was dominated by Bantu-speaking tribes at least 3,000 years ago, who built trade links leading into the Congo River basin. Congo was formerly part of the French colony of Equatorial Africa. The Republic of the Congo was established on 28 November 1958 and gained independence from France in 1960. It was a Marxist–Leninist state from 1969 to 1992, under the name People's Republic of the Congo. The country has had multi-party elections since 1992, but a democratically elected government was ousted in the 1997 Republic of the Congo Civil War. President Denis Sassou Nguesso, who first came to power in 1979, ruled until 1992 and then again since after his reinstatement. The Republic of the Congo is a member of the African Union, the United Nations, La Francophonie, the Economic Community of Central African States, and the Non-Aligned Movement. It has become the 4th-largest oil producer in the... ()
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Sambizanga(1973)

1h 42min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 7 votes)

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.

Directed by Sarah Maldoror - With Domingos de Oliveira

Journey to Ouaga(2001)

1h 24min | Drama
2.0/5 (with 2 votes)

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.

Directed by Camille Mouyéké

35 Cows and a Kalashnikov(2014)

1h 23min | Documentary
1.0/5 (with 1 vote)

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.

Silent Forests(2019)

1h 49min | Documentary
2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

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.

Macadam Tribe(1996)

1h 30min | Comedy, Drama

Four friends roam the streets, bars and boxing clubs in a bubbling and bewitching big African town.

Directed by Zeka Laplaine - With Habib Dembélé, Lydia Ewandé, Hassane Kassi Kouyaté, Djibril Kouyaté

Children of Congo, Listen!(2019)

1h 29min | Documentary

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?

The Third Way to Reach Remote Tribes(2011)

1h 20min | Documentary, Adventure, Drama

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.

La chapelle(1980)

1h 20min

Set in the 1930s, it shows life in a village some distance from the administrative post, where the people live by the traditions of their ancestors. The priest of an Evangelical mission comes into conflict with a young school teacher.

Directed by Jean-Michel Tchissoukou

Congo Calling(2019)

1h 30min | Documentary
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

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?

Directed by Stephan Hilpert

Ramata(2011)

1h 24min

Ramata is a spellbindingly beautiful woman in her fifties. She has been married for thirty years now to Matar Samb, a very rich man, a former prosecutor who is now Minister of Justice. They live in Les Almadies, an elegant neighborhood of Dakar. Ngor Ndong is twenty-five. He is young, strong, mysterious and homeless. He is an occasional petty crook, known to the police. One evening, in a taxi that Ngor Ndong just happens to be driving, Ramata, reticent at first, finally agrees to follow this young man half her age to the Copacabana, a dive in the seediest part of Dakar.

Directed by Léandre-Alain Baker - With Katoucha Niane

Young Girls, Watch Out!(1970)

45min | Drama

A young girl succumbs to the charm of a Don Juan who abandons her after having given her a child.

Congo in Four Acts(2010)

1h 9min | Documentary

A quartet of powerful, hard-hitting short films that lay bare the disturbing reality of everyday life in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Directed by Dieudonné Hamadi, Kiripi Katembo, Divita Wa Lusala
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Atalaku(2013)

1h 2min | Documentary
2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

Documentary about elections in Congo.

Directed by Dieudonné Hamadi

The Man Who Mends Women : The Wrath of Hippocrates(2015)

1h 52min | Documentary

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.

Tenrikyo, Tradition Through Black Robe(2006)

1h | Documentary

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.

The Last of the Babingas(1990)

18min | Documentary
2.0/5 (with 1 vote)

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.

Katanga Business(2009)

2h | Documentary
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

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.

Directed by Thierry Michel