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La Mémoire du Congo en péril (2005)

La Mémoire du Congo en péril poster
Directed by
Guy Bomanyama-Zandu
Genre
documentary film

How it feels

This documentary looks at the deteriorating condition of thousands of films in the Congolese film archive, including early works from the 1930s and short films by Matamata and Pilipili from the 1950s. It shows the risk of losing an important part of Congo's cinema history.

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What happens

La Mémoire du Congo en péril est un film réalisé en 2006. La cinémathèque congolaise possède des milliers de films des cinéastes qui ont marqué l'histoire du cinéma au Congo. Ces archives, datant de 1935, sont dans un état déplorable et apparaissent aujourd'hui en voie de disparition. On peut citer parmi eux les courts métrages de Matamata et Pilipili réalisés par un missionnaire des Pères de Scheut dans les années 1950. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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