Manu Dibango Movies

Filmmakers from all over the world provide short films – each of which is eleven minutes, nine seconds, and one frame of film in length –...

The film is a sub-story to Kirikou and the Sorceress rather than a straight sequel. The movie is set while Kirikou is still a child and Karaba is...

Soul Power is a 2008 documentary film about the Zaire 74 music festival in Kinshasa which accompanied the Rumble in the Jungle heavyweight boxing...

An American musician working in Nigeria becomes involved with a patriot hunted by a mercenary in Africa.

The Ceddo people try to preserve their traditional African culture against the onslaught of Islam, Christianity, and the slave trade. When King Demba...

The Fania All Stars perform for 44,000 fans at Yankee stadium in New York. Besides concert footage, there's also included a history of Salsa, and...

How African artists have spread African culture all over the world, especially music, since the harsh years of decolonization, trying to offer a...

A young hustler tries to get drug money by selling a boy to a middle-aged man; his plans are disrupted when the kid dies.

This standard slice-of-life drama is about Dju Dibonga (Richard Courcet), a young man who leaves his home on Cabo Verde, an island of Portuguese...

In the fifties, when the future Democratic Republic of Congo was still a Belgian colony, an entire generation of musicians fused traditional African...

A group of children, fleeing the war, is taken to Luanda accompanied by a nun. When they reach the aeroplane, 12-year-old N'Dala decides to leave the...

When a man's best friend is shot in cold blood by two corrupt policemen, he must track down the only eyewitnesses, who have deported to Mali.

Nino Ferrer has had several lives: hits that made him famous; a dark but artistically fruitful period; a hidden life -of his own making- breaking...

Abraham is a young sculptor who does not quite understand the changing world in which he lives. During a visit to the village, he falls for the...

Vita, a young and beautiful African woman learns that finding love and happiness need not come at the sacrifice of one's identity.

A film about the difficulty for even the most well-intentioned person to know and respect another culture. In this case, the problem is so acute that...

A rare documentary made in Brussels in the early nineties collecting witnesses on how local and Congolese musicians enriched each other including...

A dwarf born into an intolerant village meets a farmer who teaches her about love, friendship and sacrifice.