TONGO SAA – RISING UP AT NIGHT
Nelson Makongo
2024, DR Congo, Belgium, Germany, Burkina Faso, Qatar, 96min.
Documentary film
Documentary film, color, Lingala with English Subtitles
THURSDAY 06. NOVEMBER 2025 | 20H
MOVIE 2 | MOVIEMENTO
Kinshasa and its inhabitants are in darkness. They wait and struggle to get access to light. Between hope, disappointment and religious faith, Tongo Saa is a subtle and fragmented portrait of a population that, despite the challenges, is sublimated by the beauty of Kinshasa's nights.
Nelson Makengo is a filmmaker whose work oscillates between contemporary art and film. His film Nuit debout (Up at night) (Best Short IDFA 2019) has screened at over 100 festivals worldwide and has been nominated by the BFI as one of the 50 best films of 2020. E’ville (2018) won the Sharjah Art Foundation Award at the Videobrasil Biennale in 2019. In recent years, Nelson Makengo has collaborated as a director with Aljazeera and Meta, has been a jury member of several festivals and is a Sundance Documentary Film Institute and Doha Film Institute Fellow. Tongo Saa (Rising up at night) is his first feature documentary.
Filmstill © TONGO SAA