In a film series this fall, we will be screening music documentaries from Ethiopia, Mali, and the Congo. Unfortunately, we can only offer 34 seats for film screenings. If you would like to make a reservation, please send a brief email to: post@art-of-buna.de. Screenings always start at 7 p.m. – Doors open at 6 p.m. Admission free, donation welcome.
Monday, December 7, 2026 | 7:00 p.m.
Kinshasa Symphony
(OmdtU) 2010 Music Documentary
In complete darkness, two hundred orchestra musicians perform Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony—“Ode to Joy.” A power outage just a few bars before the final movement! Problems like this are the least of the concerns for the only symphony orchestra in Central Africa. In the fifteen years of its existence, the musicians have survived two coups, several crises, and a war. Yet there is a focus on the music, a hope for a better future.
