A wicked political satire about African dictators, this film tells the story of the president of a fictitious African nation who spends a sleepless night playing checkers with a pot-smoking vagabond who is claimed to be the “all-around champion”. However the rules of the game entail opponents howling vulgar and foul obscenities at one another. The Champion proceeds to insult, and trounce the President. His reward – and fate – are not exactly unexpected in this hilarious send-up of living under tyranny.Read More »
Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda
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Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda – Le damier AKA The Draughtsmen Clash (1996)
1991-2000African CinemaBalufu Bakupa-KanyindaComedyCongo - Kinshasa (Zaire)Politics -
Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda – Thomas Sankara: l’espoir assassiné AKA Thomas Sankara (1991)
1991-2000African CinemaBalufu Bakupa-KanyindaCongo - Kinshasa (Zaire)DocumentaryPoliticsCaptain Thomas Sankara was the leader of the Burkinabe Revolution. This film is a biographical profile of the revolutionary, the improvements he generated in his country and the new socio-political dimension he instituted in Burkina Faso.Read More »
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Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda – Juju Factory (2007)
2001-2010African CinemaArthouseBalufu Bakupa-KanyindaCongo - Kinshasa (Zaire)DramaKongo is writing a book on the subject of immigrants but while his editor wants a kind of traveler’s book in which ethnic exotic ingredients are offered to a European audience, Kongo has more ambitious ideas – he conceives of the idea of writing a book that follows the paths of Congolese history and its many ghosts. A brave and powerful film, made with single-mind integrity. Filmed mainly in the Congo, the film also provides a slice of life of the contemporary Congolese community in Brussels.Read More »