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"Rêve de chien", an animated short film by Jourdain Kielukusu Izu Di Do, was made in Kinshasa between 2012 and 2013, during the Afriqu'Anim'Action project led by the Studios Malembe Maa (Democratic Republic of Congo).
This animated short film by Carlos Kalonji was produced in Kinshasa as part of the beneficiary project Afriqu'Anim'Action, piloted by Studios Malembe Maa (Democratic Republic of Congo). In the film, three police officers deal with traffic infractions in the buzzing streets of a city neighborhood. A humorous tone is set from the beginning, when we see a policeman studying the rules of the highway code just minutes before beginning his shift.
Two young Congolese filmmakers are surprised by the enthusiastic reception of Stop Filming Us, a Dutch film shot in Goma by Joris Postema in 2019. That film enters into dialogue with local image makers to ask whether a western perspective on the Congo can do justice to reality, but in the view of those makers themselves, it conversely illustrates the problem perfectly: this production's perspective also distorts impressions of Congolese reality. In answer to their critique, the Dutch producer made the raw footage available to them so they could edit it into their own film. But can the images – without context – really tell their story?
A shoeshine boy observes the rhythmic passing of people's curious shoes.