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Makala is a 2017 French documentary film directed by Emmanuel Gras. It was screened in the Critics' Week section at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival. At Cannes, it won the Nespresso Grand Prize. Synopsis. The story begins without explanation of what the young man, Kabwita, is planning to do.
Aug 24, 2018 · Makala: Directed by Emmanuel Gras. With Kabwita Kasongo, Lydie Kasongo. Trials tribulation dreams and aspirations of a young farmer earning a living making and selling charcoal in Congo.
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- Documentary
- Emmanuel Gras
- 2018-08-24
Aug 24, 2018 · Filmgoers looking for something to explicitly counter August’s summer movie exhaustion should get first in line for “Makala,” a documentary about a Congolese man who makes charcoal, slowly wheels it 30 kilometers to the closest market, and then tries to sell it.
Jan 26, 2018 · Cast and crew. Director: Emmanuel Gras. Cast: Lydie Kasongo. Kabwita Kasongo. An email you’ll actually love. It’s a hard-knock life and then some for 28-year-old Congolese charcoal-maker Kabwita,...
- Emmanuel Gras
- Dave Calhoun
- February 2, 2018
Makala est un documentaire français réalisé par Emmanuel Gras et sorti en 2017. Le film reçoit le Grand prix de la Semaine de la critique au Festival de Cannes 2017.
- 96 minutes
- France
- Documentaire
- Emmanuel Gras
Kabwita, a young man living with his wife and daughters in Kolwezi, a town in the southwest of the Democratic Republic of Congo, dreams of buying land to build a house. To do so, he produces charcoal (makala), extracted from the ashes of a mighty hardwood tree.
May 24, 2017 · ‘Makala’: Film Review | Filmart 2018. This Congo-set, Swahilian documentary follows the days-long journey of a poor coal worker as he tries to sell his wares.
