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

Kinshasa Kinshasa (; ; ln, Kinsásá), formerly Léopoldville ( nl, Leopoldstad), is the capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Once a site of fishing and trading villages situated along the Congo River, Kinshasa is now one o ...

), the capital of

Zaire Zaire (, ), officially the Republic of Zaire (french: République du Zaïre, link=no, ), was a Congolese state from 1971 to 1997 in Central Africa that was previously and is now again known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Zaire was, ...

, 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 Mwezé Ngangura (born 7 October 1950) is a film director from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Early years Mwezé Ngangura was born in Bukavu, DRC on 7 October 1950. At the age of twenty he won a scholarship to go to Belgium and study ...

, Chéri Samba was instrumental in the making of the film, convincing the French Ministry of Co-operation,

France 2 France 2 () is a French public national television channel. It is part of the state-owned France Télévisions group, along with France 3, France 4 and France 5. France Télévisions also participates in Arte and Euronews. Since 3:20 CET on 7 ...

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 documentary films 1982 short films 1980s 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