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Caméra d'Afrique
Directed by Férid Boughedir
Caméra d'Afrique is an outstanding documentary on the first twenty years of African cinema.
Nollywood
By 2015, in just a little over two decades, Nollywood—the Nigerian film industry—had emerged as a global phenomenon. Its fan base reached beyond the Nigerian homeland throughout the African continent as well as extending to its diaspora and beyond. In 2015 Nollywood’s scope was further enhanced when Netflix, an international provider of on-demand video streaming, listed a small selection of Nollywood films, notably Half of a Yellow Sun (2013) and the historical crime thriller October 1 (2014). Meanwhile, YouTube offered numerous Nollywood movies, and iROKOtv, an online streaming site launched in 2011, claimed to have “the world’s largest online catalogue of Nollywood movies, with over 10,000 hours of incredible movie and TV content.”
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Mweze Ngangura Pièces d'Identités - 1998
Congolese filmmaker Mweze Ngangura directed this Belgian-French-Congolese comedy about a Congolese king in contemporary Brussels. The title refers to "identity pieces" worn under a business suit to signify regal traditions. Gerard Essomba (the actual grandson of a king) portrays Mani Kongo, King of the Bakongo. Arriving in Brussels on a search for his daughter Mwana-Mwata (Dominique Mesa), King Kongo is unaware that she did time in prison and now dates cabdriver Chaka-Jo (composer Jean-Louis Daulne). In a near miss, King Kongo's ride from the airport is in Chaka-Jo's taxi. Policeman and former colonial administrator Jefke Schengen (Herbert Flack) has Mwana dancing at a club, while Mwana's roommate Safi (Cecilia Kandonda) enters into a romance with royal nephew Mayele (Thilombo Lubambu). The Jean-Louis Daulne music track features soukous singer Papa Wemba in a performance of the title tune.
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