[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vTk0XsgZV4] In case you missed the Opening Night of the New York African Film Festival, here’s a trailer for the documentary Kinshasa Symphony, which examines the extraordinary musical group L’Orchestre Symphonique Kimbanguiste (Kinshasa Symphony Orchestra) from Democratic Republic of the Congo. About the festival: The Film Society of Lincoln Center (FSLC) and African Film Festival,… Read more »
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A Rwandan Slumdog Millionaire? Africa United
“Africa United tells the story of three Rwandan children who travel across Africa in the hope of taking part in the opening ceremony of the 2010 World Cup in Johannesburg, but board the wrong bus and end up in a children’s refugee camp in Congo.” Yet the film’s makers “claim it’s an uplifting tale that… Read more »