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Democratic Republic of the Congo

Filmmakers · Democratic Republic of the Congo

Dieudonné Mweze Ngangura and Benoît Lamy

Dieudonné Mweze Ngangura was born on 7 October 1950 in Bukavu. Having arrived in Belgium at the age of twenty, he studied at the Institut des arts de diffusion, then taught in Kinshasa, at the Institut national des arts, from 1976 to 1985, while making documentaries; he founded production companies in Kinshasa and Brussels and received the Fespaco grand prize in 1999. His co-director, the Belgian Benoît Lamy, born in 1945 in Arlon, had enjoyed great popular success from his first feature film, in 1973; he died in 2008.

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