Cinema of the Central African Republic

The Central African Republic is one of the world's poorest countries and the film industry is correspondingly small. The first film made in CAR appears to have been Les enfants de la danse, a short French-made ethnographic documentary of 1945. Joseph Akouissone was the first Central African to make a film in the country, with his 1981 documentary Un homme est un homme; he was followed by the documentaries made in the 1980s by Léonie Yangba Zowe. Since then a series of ongoing conflicts and economic crises have severely limited the potential growth of film-making in the country. The first feature-length drama made in the country was Le silence de la forêt, a 2003 CAR-Gabon-Cameroon co-production about the Biaka people.

More recently, director and producer Elvis Sabin Ngaibino has feature documentaries Makongo and Le Fardeau (The Burden) screened at international film festivals.

List of Central African films
This is a sortable list of films produced in the CAR.

Films made
La Couture de Paris,

''short film, 1995. Distribution: CFI, Canal + Horizon, TV5, Festivals: Fespaco, Amiens, Montréal, Namur.''

Diogenes to Brazzaville,

''Documentary film, 2004. Portrait of the Congolese writer Sony Labou Tansi. Broadcast: TV 10, CFI, Canal + Horizon, TV5, Festivals: Vue d'Afrique Montreal, Amiens, Fespaco, Namur, Milan, Lisbon.''

Tchicaya, the little leaf that sings its country,

''Documentary film, 2004. Portrait of the Congolese writer Tchicaya U'Tamsi. Diffusion: Images Plus, CFI, Canal + Horizon, Festivals: Fespaco, Amiens.''

Central African Republic film directors

 * Didier Ouénangaré

* Léandre-Alain Baker


 * Elvis Sabin Ngaibino
 * Léonie Yangba Zowe
 * Mamadou Mahmoud N'Dongo
 * Joseph Akouissone
 * Maurice Alezra
 * Béatrice Boffety
 * Patrick Demeester
 * Georges Durupt
 * Micheline Durupt
 * Bernard Guenau
 * Gérard Guérin
 * Evane Hanska
 * Charles Lescaut
 * Charles Leaut
 * Chantal Monstile
 * Denis Parrichon
 * Moussa Ndongo
 * Sylviane Gboulou Mbapondo
 * Leila Thiam
 * Monsieur Habib
 * Fiacre Bindala
 * Camille Lepage
 * Andre kolingbe
 * Bocha Sango
 * Mokonga Quenitin
 * Alex Ballu
 * Heritter Acteur
 * Djimon Hounsou
 * Mbéni Yé by Sparrow
 * Étienne Goyémidé
 * droite Eric Sabe,
 * Ida Mabaya,
 * lesultan de dekoa
 * Hippolyte Donossio
 * Ousna Ousnabee
 * NGAISSIO Abdoul Karim
 * ASSANAS TEKATA Simon Patrick
 * LAMINE Odilon Alias Cheguevara
 * Andy melo
 * kailou Sylla
 * Nicna Meunrisse
 * Boris Lojkine
 * Didier Flort Ouén
 * Leger Serge kokpakpa
 * Jm wolf Gang
 * lzy Orphelin
 * Brown Goh
 * Eric Yelemou
 * Lassa Kossangue
 * Bande Originale
 * Hurel BenInga