''Kin Kiesse'' is a 1982 documentary film about "Kin" (

Kinshasa Kinshasa (; ; ), formerly named Léopoldville from 1881–1966 (), is the Capital city, capital and Cities of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Kinshasa is one of the world's fastest-grow ...

), the capital of

Zaire Zaire, officially the Republic of Zaire, was the name of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 1971 to 18 May 1997. Located in Central Africa, it was, by area, the third-largest country in Africa after Sudan and Algeria, and the 11th-la ...

, and the capital of paradoxes and excesses, commentated on by one of its naïf artists, the painter

Chéri Samba Chéri Samba or Samba wa Mbimba N’zingo Nuni Masi Ndo Mbasi (born 30 December 1956) is a Congolese painter from the Democratic Republic of Congo. He is one of the best known contemporary African artists, with his works being included in the col ...

. We discover the "Kin" of night clubs, high-rise buildings, bicycle-taxis, shoe shiners and hairdressers, the "Kin" of poor neighborhoods, but, above all, the "Kin" of music, where all the genres rub elbows, from beer party brass bands to the rumba to traditional dances, without leaving out the in-fashion bands of the time. According to the film's director, Mwezé Ngangura, Chéri Samba was instrumental in the making of the film, convincing the French Ministry of Co-operation,

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and Congolese television that Ngangura could make a film on Kinshasa.

Awards

* Fespaco 1983

References

1982 films Creative Commons-licensed documentary films Democratic Republic of the Congo short documentary films 1982 short documentary films Kinshasa Films shot in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Documentary films about cities Documentary films about African music 1980s French-language films Films directed by Mwezé Ngangura {{arts-documentary-film-stub