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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. 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.
Aug 24, 2018 · In Congo, a young peasant dreams of a better future for his loved ones.
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.
Jan 26, 2018 · An email you’ll actually love. It’s a hard-knock life and then some for 28-year-old Congolese charcoal-maker Kabwita, the focus of this austere but often mesmerising doc from French filmmaker.
Jan 26, 2020 · Text: Laura Davis. In Swahili “makala” means “charcoal”, and in Congo it is one of the main resources that fuels household stoves. It is upon this that French filmmaker Emmanuel Gras sets his film. Both observational documentary and road movie, Makala is both epic and small-scale.
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.
