Life Is Rosy (1987)

En 2011, la Sociedad Criptológica de Inglaterra envió una expedición al Congo en busca del Mokèle-mbèmbé (el equivalente africano al monstruo del Lago Ness). Nunca más se supo de los investigadores, aunque sí se hallaron las cintas de vídeo que dejaron grabadas. Se trata de un material de incalculable valor; la prueba definitiva de la existencia de especies que hacia 65 millones de años que se creían extinguidas.

Biografía de James Wilson, entre 1930 y 1960. Graduado en la Universidad de Yale, acabó siendo uno de los fundadores de la CIA. Se supone que el personaje se basa en el legendario y astuto jefe de inteligencia James Jesús Angleton.

Durante la Primera Guerra Mundial, un capitán de barco con tendencia a la bebida y una estirada misionera huyen de las tropas alemanas en una ruinosa embarcación y se ven obligados a remontar un peligroso río. Son, a primera vista, dos seres antagónicos, incompatibles, pero la convivencia y, sobre todo, las penalidades que tendrán que afrontar juntos para sobrevivir harán cambiar radicalmente su relación.

Una expedición al Congo africano termina siendo un desastre. Un grupo de expertos busca un tipo de diamantes que, por su tamaño y pureza, pueden ser utilizados para poner en funcionamiento un transmisor de comunicaciones por láser, que también puede ser utilizado como arma. Cuando el equipo pierde contacto, la novia de uno de ellos, una antigua agente de la CIA, se dispone a buscar a su prometido por la selva.

Año 1961, en el Congo. Jadotville cuenta la verdadera historia del comandante Patrick Quinlan y su batallón de 150 soldados irlandeses de la ONU, sitiados por 3.000 soldados congoleños bajo el mando de mercenarios franceses y belgas que trabajaban para empresas mineras.

Una joven belga (Audrey Hepburn), que pertenece a una familia burguesa, ingresa como novicia en un convento. Tras profesar como monja, es enviada al Congo para trabajar como enfermera en una misión, como era su deseo desde niña. Sin embargo, su sorpresa será mayúscula cuando compruebe que no será destinada a atender a los nativos, sino a los europeos que viven allí.

La historia de Dian Fossey, una científica que llegó a África para estudiar una especie en extinción: los gorilas de montaña. Dian quedó fascinada con estos animales y dedicó el resto de su vida a protegerlos de los cazadores furtivos y las propias autoridades.

Cuenta la historia de Marlow, un aventurero contratado por una empresa colonial británica. Realiza un interesante viaje por el río, donde oye historias sobre un tal Kurtz. Cautivado por el personaje que inspira terror y admiración a partes iguales, decide ir en su busca. Cuando lo encuentra descubre a un ser perturbado capaz de las mayores atrocidades. Adaptación televisiva de la famosa novela de Joseph Conrad.

Documentary about the inhabitants, both human and animal, of the Belgian Congo. Released in 1958.

En plena guerra, un mercenario trata de evacuar a los habitantes de un pueblo del Congo y, al mismo tiempo, de impedir que una fortuna en diamantes caiga en manos de las fuerzas rebeldes.

Documental que se centra en los aspectos más insólitos y desagradables de lavida africana. Se plasman con gran detalle, las tradiciones y ritos másextraños y crueles de las culturas primitivas de Africa.

The true story of the rise to power and brutal assassination of the formerly vilified and later redeemed leader of the independent Congo, Patrice Lumumba. Using newly discovered historical evidence, Haitian-born and later Congo-raised writer and director Raoul Peck renders an emotional and tautly woven account of the mail clerk and beer salesman with a flair for oratory and an uncompromising belief in the capacity of his homeland to build a prosperous nation independent of its former Belgian overlords. Lumumba emerges here as the heroic sacrificial lamb dubiously portrayed by the international media and led to slaughter by commercial and political interests in Belgium, the United States, the international community, and Lumumba's own administration; a true story of political intrigue and murder where political entities, captains of commerce, and the military dovetail in their quest for economic and political hegemony.

In May 1978, the mining town of Kolwezi in Katanga, Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo, the former Belgian Congo) is under attack from a group of communist guerillas coming from nearby Angola. The Europeans who work for the Belgian mining company and the Blacks who live in the town are taken as hostages by the invaders, who start a blood bath, shooting Europeans as well as Africans. Many of the Europeans being French, the French decide to organize a counter-attack, and to send a Regiment of Paratroopers from the Foreign Legion. The movie follows the stories of Delbart, a former non-commissioned officer, who was about to go back to France with his African wife and his child, Damrémont, who was Delbart's replacement, Bia, a Zairian doctor, and Annie, an American married to a Belgian engineer as well as Non com Legion officer Federico and the French Ambassador and the Military Attaché.

35 Cows and a Kalashnikov is a joyously made triptych about warrior-farmers, colorful dandies and voodoo wrestlers in Ethiopia, Brazzaville and Kinshasa. It paints a loving and attentive portrait of African pride and beauty.

Lao Yang is head of logistics of the group. He is responsible for the equipment, building materials and food (mainly chickens) to arrive in the isolated Chinese prefab camp. The Congolese government was supposed to deliver these things but so far the team hasn't received anything. With Eddy (a Congolese man who speaks Mandarin fluently) as an intermediate, Lao Yang is forced to leave the camp and deal with local Congolese entrepreneurs, because without the construction materials the road works will cease. What follows is an endless, harsh, but absurdly funny roller coaster of negotiations and misunderstandings, as Lao Yang learns about the Congolese way of making deals.

The ruthless Flint, a disabled man, rules an isolated region of Kongo like an omnipotent god, through superstition and sadism, living only for the day when he can get revenge on the man who ruined his life.

Maisie gets lost in a jungle in Africa and the jungle of romance. The African jungle has snakes, crocodiles and witch doctors. The romantic jungle has a dedicated doctor with an un-dedicated wife and an embittered doctor who is dedicated to no one.

A young man with dreams of pursuing a career in music moves form his small village to the capital. Along the way he falls head over heels for a woman - the same woman his boss is also pursuing for his own reasons.

Harry Witzel administra una plantación de caucho perdida en una selva africana. Recibe con poco entusiasmo a su nuevo ayudante, Mr Langford, con la certeza de que éste no soportará la vida en la plantación. A pesar de las advertencias de Witzel, el recién llegado sucumbirá a los encantos de Tondelayo, una hermosa, a la par que mezquina, nativa.

“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 traveled deep into the forest. Toli discovered solitary creatures with big muscles who knew how to climb trees and harvest wild honey. When Toli tasted their honey, she thought they should all live together….” That is how one of the creation stories of the Aka people from the tropical rainforest of the Congo Basin goes. Akaya, Kengole, Dibota and their friends and family are hunters-gatherers (and also great story-tellers) who guide us through their world. They explain their origins, myths, and the very spiritual meaning of life.