Juju Factory

Director : Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda
Country : Democratic Republic of Congo
Running Time: 97 mins.

Winner of The Golden Dhow Award for the Best Film at Zanzibar International Film Festival (2007)

The story of a writer, Kongo Congo, who finds himself living in Brussels' "African neighbourhood", Matonge Village. With a repo man threatening to take away all his belongings, people back in his homeland depending on him to send money, and a need to express his own feelings about exile and about his roots, Congo agrees to write a book - supposedly a "travel guide" to introduce Matonge Village to white europeans - for an allegedly "African" publishing house. So begins the conflict between Congo and Joseph Désiré, his publisher and thus his boss, an African man who insists he is Belgian. As Congo writes of his homes, both the land of his birth and that of his exile, we see human beings, silly and funny and angry, dealing with life. But although there are characters and there is humour here, this film is far from being a straight up narrative, its more a combination of scenes and sounds, as the "real" world and the text of Congo's book seem increasingly intertwined.

Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda

Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda was born in Kinshasa, Zaire in 1957. He studied sociology, contemporary history, and philosophy in Brussels, and cinema in France, England, and the United States. Both a writer and a filmmaker, he made his first documentary, Dix Miles ans de Cinema (1991).The Draughtsmen Clash is his first fiction film.



Rating : 6.0/10
video : http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=CU3mLr3gUtY