UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Ben Affleck and Mick Jagger teamed up on Wednesday to launch a short film called "Gimme Shelter" drawing attention to the plight of Congolese families driven from their ...

When the Six-Day War broke out in his native Congo two decades ago, documentary filmmaker Dieudo Hamadi—whose film “Downstream to Kinshasa” is the first Congolese film to be an official selection in ...

Congolese Nobel Peace Prize winner Denis Mukwege hopes a new film about his life will achieve what decades of activism have struggled to do: bringing his country's "forgotten" wars to wide public ...

The movie was shot for $1.2 million and filming in the DRC brought challenges. "Congo is a country that doesn't have a cinema culture," explained Baloji. "Movies made in Congo or Central Africa most ...

U.S.-based production company Congo Rising is preparing “Patrice Lumumba,” a film on the life of the Congolese leader who was assassinated in 1961. Lumumba, the leader of the Congolese National ...

Content warning: This article contains references to sexual assault. The film crew was caught in a crossfire. On one side, the Congolese army shot bullets. On the other, striking miners threw stones.

Congolese artist Sammy Baloji's first documentary The Tree of Authenticity fuses images and sounds, and features a talking tree as its narrator, to highlight the connection between Democratic Republic ...

Congolese director Dieudo Hamadi sees his selection on the 2025 Cannes Film Festival jury as "recognition for a career" spent chronicling the traumas of his native Democratic Republic of Congo. Across ...

In 1885 a coalition of European powers granted personal ownership of the Congo, a region rich in minerals and rubber, to Belgium’s King Leopold II. His royal army enslaved the native population ...

Congolese Nobel Peace Prize winner Denis Mukwege hopes a new film about his life will achieve what decades of activism have struggled to do: bringing his country's "forgotten" wars to wide public ...