Maki'la

Maki’la depicts the rough life of street children in Kinshasa, the capital city of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

While working on the set of Félicité in Kinhasa as a translator for director Alain Gomis Bahango decided to make her first own film.

This showed especially during the market scenes, when the vendors helped the filmmaker by acting as unpaid extras and by convincing their customers to do the same.

At a critical point Alain Modot of DIFFA (International Distribution of Films and Fiction from Africa) came across the movie poster on Facebook.

[7][8][5] During production Bahango found what she saw in the streets often "difficult for me to watch" [9] For the benefit of authenticity the director chose to have the camera at times being shaky, emulating the look of smartphone videos.