A Country More Beautiful Than Before

A Country More Beautiful Than Before 2018 Directed by Hannes Verhoustraete Un pays plus beau qu'avant

A film about Congo, made in Brussels.

The wanderings of a retail trader, Jean-Simon, sketch the contours of a microcosmic informal economy in Congolese society. The financial urgency of everyday life is permeated by the political situation in Congo: a larger, more abstract urgency, which the diaspora experiences from a distance. The film finds itself somewhere in between these two imperatives, between here and somewhere else, the past and the present, small money and big money.

Country USA

Language English

Gnere Documentary

Production Company Cassette for Timescapes

Release Date 5 December 2018

66 mins