Congo Movies

In June 2010, French actress Marion Cotillard spent a week in the heart of the tropical forests of the Democratic Republic of Congo with members of...

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

A 12-year-old Congolese girl is taken to the mfinda, a primordial forest teeming with spirits, gods and ancestors. There she meets up with another...

As if they were showing their film to a few friends in their home, the Johnsons describe their trip across the world, which begins in the South...

The plains of Africa have always been a hotbed of predator action, but lurking in its rivers is perhaps its most elusive killer: the Goliath...

John Bishop encounters one of the most endangered animals on Earth, and discovers they and his family have more in common than he ever imagined....

“In the beginning, women lived apart, unaware of the existence of men. Until one day, when the first woman, Toli, who was brave and adventurous...

This short film tells the deeply personal and emotional journey of a father who made the life-altering decision to immigrate to Canada from Congo...

35 Cows and a Kalashnikov is a joyously made triptych about warrior-farmers, colorful dandies and voodoo wrestlers in Ethiopia, Brazzaville and...

In search of glory, Portuguese Major Afonso Ferreira sees himself consumed in the deepest darkness of the Congo.

After numerous military operations, Major Müller can't find a way back into civilian life. Following his urge to communicate, the Major is...

Wherever war breaks out, men with guns rape. During the decades of conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo possibly hundreds of thousands of...

Since the late 1990s, more people have died in war-torn Congo than in any conflict since World War II. In addition to the dead, hundreds of thousands...

An investigation of the emotional and economic value of Africa's most lucrative export: filmed poverty. Deep in the interiors of the Congo, Dutch...

A spiritual and political epic in the heart of the Belgian Congo. This documentary is a plunge into the life of an ordinary man who became a symbol...

Short ethnographic documentary showing some everyday life scenes based upon footage shot by director Luc de Heusch in Congo in 1954 reassembled by...