Kinshasa Makambo (2018) - Dieudo Hamadi

​A raw and unflinching portrait of the Republic of Congo and the fight for equity among those who've been subjugated by a corrupt polity, Dieudo Hamadi's Kinshasa Makambo rests at the fulcrum of reform and revolution.  Empowering yet never intrusive  to those whom which it profiles, the film provides an organic look at the movement, one which struggles to be heard due to consistent suppression. Detailing intrinsic difficulties attached to any meaningful longitudinal social movement, Kinshasa Makambo defines the struggle for liberation, the fight for freedom as anything but simple or straightforward, exhibiting the many tentacles of thought intrinsic to larger social formations.  Violence of the body and the mind are exhibited in vivid detail, as the film lives in a space between hope and despair, fully recognizing that in the end it's the people themselves that must save themselves from the tyranny of corruption and oppression.  The underlying anger of this film is palatable yet never polemic, offering a rallying cry for a better world that transcends its specific subjects and speaks to a global state of affairs