Monique Mbeka Phoba (born 1962) is a filmmaker whose family comes from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) but who now lives in Benin.
She visited the DRC during her school holidays, but established herself in Belgium when aged sixteen after her father resigned his office.
[1] In 1991 Monique Mbeka Phoba made the film Revue en vrac (26 minutes) with Fred Mongu, a journalist of Zaire national television (OZRT).
Her short film Une voix dans le Silence on 1996 tells of the struggle of Bruno Ediko, an HIV-positive Beninese.
shows the life of an old man who was a medical assistant under Belgian colonization, a doctor after independence, and who then agreed to become a customary judge after his retirement.
[4] From 1995 to 2007, Monique Mbeka Phoba lived in Benin, where she has worked on production, distribution and promotion of African cinema.