E’ville
Director: Nelson Makengo
Democratic Republic of Congo, 2019
12 minutes
“E'Ville”, short for Elisabethville until the city was renamed Lubumbashi in 1960. Filmmaker Nelson Makengo takes viewers on an introspective journey through the abandoned ruins of a Gécamines mining facility, set to the haunting soundtrack of Patrice Lumumba's final letter to his wife Pauline, written shortly before his assassination in E'Ville