Short Films: Collectif Faire-Part
Short films: “L’Escale” and “Speech For A Disappearing Statue”
Language: French spoken, with subtitles in English
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During this session, we give the floor to Collectif Faire-Part, an ensemble of Belgian and Congolese filmmakers telling new stories about Kinshasa, about Brussels, and the many relations in between.
More information on the collective can be found here.
During this session, we will screen two of their new short films: “L’Escale” and “Speech For A Disappearing Statue”.
Both films are French spoken, with subtitles in English.
After the screening there will be a short panel discussion with the filmmakers.
L"Escale (2022, 14')
In 2019, filmmakers Paul Shemisi and Nizar Saleh traveled from Kinshasa to Frankfurt for a screening of their new film. During a stopover in Angola, they were stopped at the airport, because the airline didn't trust their papers. When Paul and Nizar thought they were being led to a hotel to wait for their flight home, they found themselves in an illegal detention center. In this short film, the testimony from the filmmakers provides an insight into the impossibility for Congolese artists to travel trouble-free and in safety, while the images show breathtaking views from an airplane window.
Speech for a disappearing statue (2022, 10')
In June 2020, thousands of people took to the streets in Brussels to make a fist against police brutality and institutional racism in solidarity with Black Lives Matter. For a moment, it seemed that some demonstrators would bring down the statue of Leopold II in a nearby square. Marie Paule Mugeni writes a speech for the day it actually happens.