The Guardian highlights a documentary by Cecilia Zoppelletto,'La Belle at the Movies':
Congo’s capital was once a hotbed of film. Opulent cinemas populated Kinshasa’s most fashionable districts and the city’s residents were devoted to 1960s spaghetti westerns, prompting a fashion craze for Borsalino hats and cowboy boots.
But today the magic of sitting in the dark watching stories unfold on the big screen is a distant memory for most Kinshasans. The only remaining film theatre closed down in 2004, leaving the city of 10 million without a single cinema...[more]