Direction: Arnold Aganze
Production company: Stone Age Pictures
KONGO IS BURNING
Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo / English, Swahili, Lingala
‘Kongo is Burning’ is a contemporary and celebratory tale of the fashion, disco balls, and the everyday hustle of life in Bukavu, a city in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, told by La Duchesse and Consolée, two transgender women.
Arnold Aganze – is a multi-award-winning director who was born in 1986 in Mushenyi, a small village in the East of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Raised between fields of maize and fields of war, he started a degree in Political Science in Bukavu, before dropping it and moving to Kampala, Uganda.