In L’Escale / The Stopover filmmakers Paul Shemisi and Nizar Saleh - part of Collectif Faire-Part - travel from the Democratic Republic of Congo to Germany for the screening of their new film.
During a stopover in Luanda (Angola) they are stopped at the airport because the airline doesn’t believe their passports and documents to be real. While Paul and Nizar think they are being led to a hotel, where they would stay until their flight back home, they are actually being taken to an illegal detention centre and join a myriad of other travellers who are left in limbo.
The filmmakers’ testimony – which offers an eye-opening insight into the impossibility of safe and carefree travel for Congolese artists – stands in stark contrast with the seemingly peaceful images of cloud formations passing by an airplane.
Collectif Faire-Part is an ensemble of Belgian and Congolese artists, founded in 2016, by filmmakers Anne Reigniers, Paul Shemisi, Nizar Saleh and Rob Jenkins. Together they aim at telling new stories about Kinshasa, about Brussels, and the many complex relations in between. In recent years the collective of four has shape-shifted into a larger group of regular collaborators from between and in Belgium and DR Congo.
Anne Reijniers (BE, she/her) is a filmmaker and farmer, interested in politics and botanics. Next to her collective practice with Faire-part, Anne investigates the potential of collective gardening as an act of anti-capitalist resistance.
Paul Shemisi (DRC, he/him) started by working as camera-assistant for foreign film crews in his home town of Kinshasa. After having gained experience he studied cinema at Les Ateliers Action, a film program organized by INSAS. He has worked on various films as co-director, scenarist, producer and cameraman, including Renaud Barret’s Système K.
Rob Jacobs (BE, he/they ) is a filmmaker and organizer. Next to his artistic work, Rob gives workshops on masculinity & violence in high schools.
Nizar Saleh (DRC, he/him) is filmmaker and photographer. After finishing his studies in visual communication at Académie des Beaux-Arts in Kinshasa, Nizar made several short docs looking at Kinshasa’s art scene. Together with his colleague cineast Paul Shemisi he founded production house ‘Kimpavita Film’.
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