Among the films in the official selection, Augure by the Belgian rapper, performer and director Baloji is the first Congolese feature film presented at the Cannes Film Festival. Baloji was born in the DRC, he has already shot several films there. In Augure, he recounts a family drama in a humorous way. The return to Koffi’s native land with his white and pregnant companion against a backdrop of witchcraft and beliefs whose first victims are women.
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Baloji, director of the film “Augure”: “I defend my work as a cinema of magic realism”
