Café Kuba

Filmstill Café Kuba

Café Kuba

Café Kuba
David Shongo
International Competition Documentary Film
Documentary Film
DR Congo,
Belgium
2025
29 minutes
Lingala,
French
Subtitles: 
English
World premiere

A mobile coffee truck becomes a cinema apparatus that seems to enable the recording of what is often overlooked and even more often overheard. David Shongo’s nocturnal portrait of Kinshasa in the aftermath of the M23 violent excesses of February 2025 in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo is an idiosyncratic and undercover exploration of a fragile city that has been exposed to a lot of historic and present traumatisation and continues to be marked by instability.
To raise the question of Kinshasa’s future, the Congolese artist and composer re-interprets film-historical concepts and adds new facets: With his practice of radical listening and questioning the limits of seeing, based on strong images, complex sound and inventive performative staging, he creates his own form of “fugitive cinema”.


Borjana Gaković

Photosensitivity warning: Contains flashes of light that may trigger seizures for people with visual sensitivities.

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28.10.
#263
Passage Kinos Astoria
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28.10.2025
Passage Kinos Astoria
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29.10.
#382
UT Connewitz
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29.10.2025
UT Connewitz
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30.10.
#432
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30.10.2025
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31.10.
#514
CineStar 2
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31.10.2025
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Credits DOK Leipzig Logo

Director
David Shongo
Script
David Shongo
Cinematographer
David Shongo, Kevin Booto
Editor
David Shongo
Producer
David Shongo, Tommy Simoens
Co-Producer
Olga Sherazade Pitton, Tommy Simoens
Sound
Djo Wamba
Sound Design
David Shongo

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Main Contact
David Shongo
davidshongo@gmail.com