Welcome to "E'Ville", short name for Elisabethville until the city was renamed Lubumbashi in 1960. Filmmaker Nelson Makengo takes viewers on an introspective journey through the abandoned ruins of a Gécamines mining facility, set to the haunting soundtrack of Patrice Lumumba's final letter to his wife Pauline, written shortly before his assassination in E'Ville.

A film by Bob Nelson MAKENGO

Congo DRC, 2018, Experimental film / Documentary, 12 mins, French w/ English subtitles


Original Title: E'ville
Duration: 10 Min. (2018 Congo in Harlem)
Dir. Nelson Makengo


Production : Lelo-Lobi NMW,

with the support of
Argumen't Project
Picha asbl

Awards & Official selection / Screenings

2019 | Best Short /// Saint-Louis Documentary Film Festival (6è FIFD de Saint-Louis 2019) - Saint-Louis (Senegal)
2019 | Best Short Documentary /// Rwanda Film Festival - Kigali (Rwanda)
2019 | Selection /// Afrika FilmFestival - Louvain (Belgique)
2019 | Sharjah Art Fondation Residency Prize /// Biennale Videobrasil - Brazil
2019 | Selection /// Africlap - Festival des Cinémas d'Afrique de Toulouse /// Toulouse (France)
2019 | Screening, 06/2019 /// People's Forum - New-York (USA)
2019 | Selection /// Vues d'Afrique - Canada
2019 | Selection Afrique /// Festival international du court-métrage de Clermont-Ferrand - France
2018 | Jury Prize /// CIFF Congo International Film Festival - DRC
2018 | Best Film Direction /// CIFF Congo International Film Festival - DRC
2018 | Selection /// Festival de Douarnenez - France
2018 | Selection /// Congo In Harlem - New-York (USA)
2018 | Selection /// Biennale de Lubumbashi - DRC
2018 | Selection /// Cinéma Aventure - Belgium
2018 | Selection /// CIFF Congo International Film Festival - DRC
2018 | Selection /// Kigogo Kidogo Film Festival, Lubumbashi - DRC