NSALA
Genre
Experimental
Running time
10 minutes
Year
2025
Language
Subtitle
No
Country
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Director
Mickael-Sltan Mbanza
Bio
Producer
Petna Ndaliko
Cast
Christan Blakon, Joviane Chanda, Agizo Josué, Germain Nkubito
Scriptwriter
Mickael-Sltan Mbanza
Colonial archives intertwine with contemporary imagery to depict the story of a couple recruited to work in a mine. Rather than interpret a single suspended moment, Nsala transcends the archive by blending reality with fiction. This silent portrait probes the machinery of exploitation and the violence of erasure, while opening space for memory and emotion to coexist. Experimental yet profoundly evocative, the film offers a striking meditation on buried histories and the legacies that continue to reverberate beyond their time.
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