Screening Times
Thursday February 21, 1:30 p.m., PCC Cascade Moriarty Bldg. 104 (Matinee)
Saturday February 23, 7:30 p.m., PCC Cascade Moriarty Bldg. 104
All films are free and open to the public on a first-come, first-served basis.
Kinshasa Palace (Democratic Republic of Congo, France)
Directed by Zeka Laplain
2006, 75 min.
In French, Tshiluba, Portuguese, English, and Cambodian with English subtitles
Kinshasa Palace is an engrossing study of family displacement and the socially corrosive ramifications of the recent African diaspora. The Laplaine family is scattered around Europe and Africa, refugees from the wars in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Kaze (Zeka Laplaine) and younger brother Max live in Paris, though recently Max has gone missing and the family is beginning to worry. Somewhere between documentary and fiction, Kinshasa Palace speaks volumes about the legacy of an unstable Africa on the micro level.