IN CINEMA

Congo In Harlem 16
TONGO SAA (RISING UP AT NIGHT)
Tickets: $15 General Admission / $7 Reduced Price 
Thursday, October 17th at 7PM
Co-Presented with Friends of the Congo

Nelson Makengo, 2024, 96 min.

Darkness falls over Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, and its 17 million inhabitants struggle to gain access to electric light. Kudi mobilizes the residents of his neighborhood, Kisenso, to collect money to replace a stolen power cable in time for Christmas festivities. On Mount Mangengenge, a holy place overlooking the city, Pastor Gédéon delivers a sermon about the light of Christ as the path to life and truth. Meanwhile, Davido searches for shelter after his house was flooded by the Congo River. He kills time by working out with his friends as he waits for the river to recede from his neighborhood. TONGO SAA is a subtle, fragmented portrait of a population that, despite the challenges, is reinventing itself in an environment marked by violence, colored by the uncertainty of tomorrow and immersed in the beauty of Kinshasa’s nights.