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Tsofa ( Congo 2012 )

Color: Documentary, color, 52

Direction: Rufin Mbou Mikima

Screenplay: Rufin Mbou Mikima

Director of Photography: Thomas ROUSSILLON, François KOTLARSKI, Anatole MAFOULA

Sound: Vlad VOINESCU, Alioune MBOW, Adélaïde MBOUEYA

Music: Fredy MASSAMBA

Editing: Fabienne PACHER

Cast: Yves Lehula, Fredy Mandzila

Production: Inzo Ya Bizizi (Congo) - Vrai-Vrai films (France)

Synopsis

In Congolese popular language, "Tsofa" is friendly attributed to the drivers of public transportation. The misadventures of 34 young blacks from Congo who were hired as taxi drivers in Bucharest, capital of Romania and how their dreams quickly turned into a nightmare.

Réalisateur

Director of documentary films collection on "the exclusion" for médiAfrique communication, Co-director of the documentary Brazz’arts. Author and director of the TV series Stevy and Shekinah and between roots. Writer, assistant director, actor in “Uninhibited " of Amour Saveur. His other films: IN THE EYES (2008), NEW SOUNDS (2007), IN THE NAME OF ... (2005).