Freddy Tsimba is an artist who roams places in Congo (DRC) that breathe out life and death, looking for scrap metal, which he uses as the raw material for his art. “I risk my life to make my sculptures and you can’t put a price on that. I’ve picked up ten thousand of cartridges in difficult conditions, but how many are still left ? Tonnes ! And they bear the tragic history of my country.”

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Directors

Rosine Mfetgo Mbakam was born in Cameroon in 1980. After her studies in video journalism and audiovisual techniques in Yaoundé from 2001 to 2004, she worked for the private channel STV (Spectrum Télévision) in Douala from 2004 to 2007, run by Mactar Sylla. He gave her the desire and energy to pursue her training, while continuing to work on various international productions.
Rosine entered INSAS (Brussels) in 2007, where she is currently completing her studies as a director. In Belgium, she works as production assistant to Manu Bonmariage and as a film editer for Africalia. When she met Mirko Popovitch in 2008, it didn’t take long before the "Mavambu" project was born, a portrait of the Congolese sculptor Freddy Tsimba. Rosine has also produced several short films, including "Ya Ya TOO" in 2009, "Cadeau" in 2010 and "Les portes du passé" in 2011.

Mirko Dragolioub Popovitch was born in 1948, the year of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and of women rights to vote in Belgium ; his mother, a graduate of the Cours Simon theatre school, met his father, a Yugoslav officer, at the liberation of Paris. Popovitch, an all-round creative artist with a training in photography, has worked in all creative fields.
He has produced around fifty documentaries for the television magazine programme "Espace Francophone" ; he is a filmmaker, with short films and documentaries to his credit like "Tango Ya Ba Wendo" with Kwami Zinga (Best Documentary Prize at the Fespaco festival, Ouagadougou, 1995) and "Temps des cerises", at the legendary Floreffe festival in 1979 ; he is an actor and humorist (winner of the Grand Prix at the Rochefort Festival in 1984 with Dieudonné Kabongo). He has initiated and coordinated several international events, including the famous "Zinneke Parade" in Brussels. He is also a founder member and director of various cultural associations. Furthermore is he a keen writer and a passionate musician.
Mirko Popovitch was the director of La Vénerie Arts Centre in Boitsfort, Brussels, for 28 years and since 2006 is he the director of Africalia.

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Technical datasheet

Length : 26’ / Version : French / Subtitles : Dutch-English / Year of Production : 2011 / Coproducers : Africalia/Ti Suka/Kabola Films (DRC) / Direction/Script : Rosine Mbakam & Mirko Popovitch / Images : Viny Mpela, Guy Kabeya, Clarisse Muvuba, Sylvain Winance / Mixing : Rosine Mbakam / Mixing & Sound : Alexandre Davidson