L’escale

Filmmakers Paul Shemisi and Nizar Saleh travel from the Democratic Republic of Congo to Germany for a screening of their new film. During a layover in Angola, they’re stopped at the airport because the airline doesn’t believe their documents to be real and taken to an illegal detention center. The filmmakers’ testimony—which offers eye-opening insight into the impossibility of safe and carefree travel for Congolese artists—stands in stark contrast to the seemingly peaceful images of cloud formations passing by an airplane window.