Kinshasa is a city of 10 million people without a single cinema. La Belle at the Movies examines the decline of the movie business in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s capital city by putting us in touch with audiences cut adrift from their beloved theaters. Through passionate, insightful, and deeply nostalgic interviews with filmmakers, cinema owners, government officials, and film lovers, Cecilia Zoppelletto’s lyrical documentary reveals complex politics and past events inexorably linked to the fate of “the movies” -- an industry feeling orphaned but living in hope for a brighter future.
Cast
Recommendations
view all
A Plastic Ocean
Fuck
The Curious Birth of Benjamin Button
Anna Nicole Smith: You Don't Know Me
Directed by John Ford
Ex Libris: The New York Public Library
McQueen
The Class of ‘92
Public Speaking
Halloween: 25 Years of Terror
Casting By
Champs
Heart of a Dog
In the Realms of the Unreal
Sidney
The Summers of It - Chapter Two: It Ends
28 Up
Making 'The Shining'
Making "The Matrix"
Seduced and Abandoned