[1] In 1985, returning to Europe, Mwezé Ngangura worked on the scenario of La Vie est Belle (Life is Wonderful) with funding from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
[1] La Vie est Belle starring Papa Wemba tells the story of a poor young country musician who comes to the city and becomes famous.
The next year he directed Lettre à Makura : les derniers Bruxellois, a view by an African ethnologist of the marolliens, the oldest community in Brussels.
[1] In 1998 Mwezé Ngangura directed Pièces d'Identités (Identity Pieces), a feature film shot in Brussels (mainly in the district of Matonge - Ixelles ) and Cameroon, which received the Audience Award at the 8th Festival of African Cinema of Milan in 1998 and the Grand Prix at FESPACO in Ouagadougou in 1999.
[citation needed] Pièces d'Identités is a modern fairy story set in the world of African immigrants in Europe.