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Rising Up at Night: Work in Progress

After an election that has shaken its already precarious political and economic stability, DR Congo is trying to revive its project to build Africa’s largest power plant on the Congo River. Kinshasa, the capital, remains in darkness while its population struggles for access to light. Rising Up at Night subtly portrays a population that is reinventing itself in spite of everything, in an environment plagued by the violence and beauty of Kinshasa’s nights and the uncertainty of the next day.

Director

Nelson Makengo

Countries

Belgium Democratic Republic of the Congo

Year

2022

Dialogue Language

Lingala

Subtitle Language

English

Primary Contact

Rosa Spaliviero

Producer

Rosa Spaliviero