{"id":41417,"date":"2026-11-05T13:39:43","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T12:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/film\/congo-boy\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T13:45:56","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T12:45:56","slug":"congo-boy","status":"publish","type":"film","link":"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/en\/film\/congo-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"Congo Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bangui, Central African Republic. Seventeen-year-old Robert is a Congolese refugee who dreams of a career in music. When his parents are arrested, the responsibility for looking after his four younger brothers and sisters fall entirely on his shoulders. Whilst armed militias terrorise the town, he tries to balance school, household chores and the daily struggle for survival with his studies. When he hears that a music competition is being organised, he realises he finally has a chance to take part in his hopeless situation to escape.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With <em>Congo Boy<\/em>, Rafiki Fariala makes his feature film debut, a social drama in which music is not only an outlet, but also a potential path to a different future. Fariala, who is originally from the Congo and grew up in the Central African Republic, began his artistic career as a slam poet. His background is reflected in this story about a young refugee who refuses to give up on his dreams, despite the responsibilities and violence he faces on a daily basis.<\/p>\n<p>Following his critically acclaimed documentary <em>Nous, \u00e9tudiants !<\/em> (2022), the first Central African film to be screened at the Berlinale, Fariala once again focuses on the lives of young people in Bangui. With <em>Congo Boy<\/em>, selected for the <em>Un Certain Regard <\/em>section at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival, he presents a moving story about family, resilience and the power of music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":41418,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41417","film","type-film","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/film\/41417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/film"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/film"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/film\/41417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41421,"href":"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/film\/41417\/revisions\/41421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}