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  1. Makala is a 2017 French documentary film directed by Emmanuel Gras. [1] It was screened in the Critics' Week section at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival. [2] [3] At Cannes, it won the Nespresso Grand Prize. [4]

  2. www.imdb.com › title › tt6805366Makala (2017) - IMDb

    Makala: Directed by Emmanuel Gras. With Kabwita Kasongo, Lydie Kasongo. Trials tribulation dreams and aspirations of a young farmer earning a living making and selling charcoal in Congo.

    • (781)
    • Documentary
    • Emmanuel Gras
    • 2018-08-24
  3. Aug 24, 2018 · 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.

  4. Aug 24, 2018 · In Congo, a young peasant dreams of a better future for his loved ones. His only wealth lies in the strength of his arms, the bushland around him and his strong will. As he sets...

    • (26)
    • Documentary
    • Emmanuel Gras
  5. Jan 26, 2018 · Makala’ (which means ‘coal’ in Swahili) forces us to feel the drudgery of Kabwita’s day-to-day life by inviting us into his time zone: this is a slow and demanding film. But it’s also a...

    • Emmanuel Gras
    • Dave Calhoun
    • February 2, 2018
  6. Makala – Official U.S. Trailer. Opens August 24 at MoMA before expanding to select cities: bit.ly/makalafilmMakala (Swahili for "charcoal"), the new documentary by Emmanuel Gras, is a power...

    • 2 min
    • 56.2K
    • Kino Lorber
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  8. Aug 24, 2018 · 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.