Manu Dibango Movies

Filmmakers from all over the world provide short films – each of which is eleven minutes, nine seconds, and one frame of film in length –...

The film is a sub-story to Kirikou and the Sorceress rather than a straight sequel. The movie is set while Kirikou is still a child and Karaba is...

Soul Power is a 2008 documentary film about the Zaire 74 music festival in Kinshasa which accompanied the Rumble in the Jungle heavyweight boxing...

A young hustler tries to get drug money by selling a boy to a middle-aged man; his plans are disrupted when the kid dies.

When King Demba War sides with the Muslims, the Ceddo kidnap his daughter, Princess Dior Yacine, to protest their forcible conversion to Islam.

How African artists have spread African culture all over the world, especially music, since the harsh years of decolonization, trying to offer a...

When a man's best friend is shot in cold blood by two corrupt policemen, he must track down the only eyewitnesses, who have deported to Mali.

A group of children, fleeing the war, is taken to Luanda accompanied by a nun. When they reach the aeroplane, 12-year-old N'Dala decides to leave the...

An American musician working in Nigeria becomes involved with a patriot hunted by a mercenary in Africa.

Vita, a young and beautiful African woman learns that finding love and happiness need not come at the sacrifice of one's identity.

In the fifties, when the future Democratic Republic of Congo was still a Belgian colony, an entire generation of musicians fused traditional African...

This standard slice-of-life drama is about Dju Dibonga (Richard Courcet), a young man who leaves his home on Cabo Verde, an island of Portuguese...

A film about the difficulty for even the most well-intentioned person to know and respect another culture. In this case, the problem is so acute that...

A dwarf born into an intolerant village meets a farmer who teaches her about love, friendship and sacrifice.

Nino Ferrer has had several lives: hits that made him famous; a dark but artistically fruitful period; a hidden life -of his own making- breaking...

Abraham is a young sculptor who does not quite understand the changing world in which he lives. During a visit to the village, he falls for the...

A rare documentary made in Brussels in the early nineties collecting witnesses on how local and Congolese musicians enriched each other including...