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A Country More Beautiful Than Before (2018)

A Country More Beautiful Than Before (2018)

Documentary

A film about Congo, made in Brussels.

Release Date: 2018, December 5
Directors: Hannes Verhoustraete
Production: Cassette for Timescapes

Overview:

The wanderings of a retail trader, Jean-Simon, sketch the contours of a microcosmic informal economy in Congolese society. The financial urgency of everyday life is permeated by the political situation in Congo: a larger, more abstract urgency, which the diaspora experiences from a distance. The film finds itself somewhere in between these two imperatives, between here and somewhere else, the past and the present, small money and big money.