28.7.2012
First broadcasting of Kinshasa Symphony at WDR (West German Television) on 7. August 2012, 22h30

19.4.2012
Winner of a golden HUGO at the 48th Chigago TV Festival Hugo Awards.

1.2.2012
Kinshasa Symphony is nominated in the category „Information & Culture/Special“ for the German TV Grimme-Award 2012.

15.11.2011
Winners of International "Gold Panda" Awards for Documentary at the "11th Sichuan TV Festival": Kinshasa Symphony receives GRAND PRIZE and prize for BEST DIRECTOR!

27.10.2011
Finally! .. the instruments that had been collected for the orchestra since the theatrical release in Germany have finally arrived in Kinshasa! A big thanks to all the donors! Pictures here

13.10.2011
AWARD NEWS: Best Arts in Film Documetary - Feature International @ Santa Rosa Int. Film Festival!

04.10.2011
Tonight screening at the opening ceremony of the "German Film Week" in Bujumbura, Burundi @ 7pm (19h) - with Martin Baer and Pascal Capitolin!

14.09.2011
Theatrical release in France! ! !

28.06.2011
The children of an elementary school in Berlin-Steglitz, "Grundschule am Insulaner", have collected 600€ to support the music school project of the orchestra!

20.06.2011
Best Documentary at the 11th Image et Vie Film Festival in Dakar, Sénégal!

16.05.2011
Theatrical release in Austria on May, 20th!

27.04.2011
... and another Audience Award! This time in Pessac/France at Palmarés-Du Festival de cinéma jeune public-Les Toiles Filantes!

26.04.2011
Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature at the RiverRun International Film Festival in Winston-Salem, USA!

16.04.2011
Kinshasa Symphony wins two awards at the 25th Bolzano Film Festival:"Best Documentary" and Audience Award!

14.04.2011
Kinshasa Symphony has won two more awards! The World Gold Medal at the New York Festival in the category documentaries as well as the Award for the Best Artistic Achievement from the city of Potsdam.

11.04.2011
Twitter News from RiverRun Film Festival:
"Met a woman who drove up from Atlanta (530 km distance) with her daughter just to watch "Kinshasa Symphony" today!"

07.04.2011
Theatrical release in France in September!

01.04.2011
Beautiful segment about Kinshasa Symphony on NYC's classical music station WQXR.

30.03.2011
Armand Diangienda will be attending 2 festivals in the US in April: The AFF in NY and RiverRun Int. Film Festival in Winston-Salem!!!

12.03.2011
Kinshasa Symphony has won the Jury Award at the 2011 Salem Film Fest!

11.03.2011
Kinshasa Symphony is nominated for the GERMAN FILM AWARD 2011!

29.01.2011
Kinshasa Symphony is preselected for the German film award Lola.

01.01.2011
Theatrical release in Belgium January 2011!

25.12.2010
CMJ Music&Film Festival, New York, announces Kinshasa Symphony as "Best Documentary" in the Audience Poll!

22.12.2010
WDR musicians back from Kinshasa! Trip and work with the Orchestra a huge success!

28.11.2010
Closing Film at the European Film Festival in Göttingen/Germany. Sold out again!

22.11.2010
Two sold out screenings at the EthnoFilmFest in Munich and apparently a record in visitors and positive feedback!

10.11.2010
Screening at Free Zone Festival in Belgrade: "The screening was really great. Our audience loved the film. I can say that Kinshasa Symphony was one of the hit films at Free zone."

09.11.2010
November 2010: Theatrical Release in Switzerland!

20.10.2010
"Special Jury Mention" for creative dramatic illustration of the survival topic at "Flahertiana" Film Festival in Perm, Russia!

18.10.2010
"VIFF Most Popular Nonfiction Film Award" in Vancouver!

08.10.2010
Kinshasa Symphony is the Audience Favourite at the "10th Festival des Deutschen Films" in Buenos Aires!

03.10.2010
Our first need at betterplace.org has been completed. Thanks to everyone for the donations and support!

30.09.2010
Great cinema release! Kinshasa Symphony in 6th place at this week's Arthouse-Movie-Charts!

23.09.2010
"Kinshasa Symphony...the best musical documentary since Rhythm is it!" - Deutschlandradio

23.09.2010
Theatrical Release in Germany

21.09.2010
Now donations for the orchestra possible at betterplace.org!

02.09.2010
"Kinshasa Symphony" is nominated for the Erasmus EuroMedia Awards 2010.

17.08.2010
The 6th Jecheon International Music & Film Festival presents the Grand Prize to "Kinshasa Symphony" from the International Competition section, "World Music Film Today".

16.08.2010
Rhode Island Int. Film Festival 2010:
Grand Prize "Best Cinematography" goes to "Kinshasa Symphony"
The 2010 Flickers: Rhode Island International Film Festival (RIIFF) announced the winners in this year’s film competition at its annual Awards Ceremony in downtown Providence, RI. The festival ran August 10th-15th and showcased over 200 cinematic works, including 35 World and 23 US/North American Premieres. The films were selected from a record entry base of over 4200 international submissions.
www.film-festival.org

12.08.2010
Filmmusik verbindet die Festivals in aller Welt: bei den Oberaudorfer Musikfilmtagen spielt die Jugendblaskapelle Filmmusikklassiker - zur Eroeffnung des Jecheon International Music & Film Festivals in Korea gibt es ebenfalls Filmmusik, diesmal gespielt auf koreanischen Saiteninstrumenten.
Beide Festivals sind noch jung. Beide sind ausgesprochen gastfreundlich und wunderbar musikorientiert. Fantastisch, dass beide Kinshasa Symphony zeigen! In Bayern mit deutschen Untertiteln, in Jecheon mit koreanischen.

29.07.2010
Kinshasa Symphony erhält eine "Lobende Erwähnung" beim Phoenix-Dokumentarfilmpreis 2010. >>>

27.07.2010
Pascal Capitolin stellt Kinshasa Symphony beim Durban International Film Festival vor: "Die erste Vorstellung fand vor vierhundert Schülern statt, die danach vor allem fragten, wieso Schwarze klassische Musik statt Rap oder ähnlichem spielen. Der Film kam sehr gut bei ihnen an - und gelacht wurde an ganz anderen Stellen als in Europa. In Südafrika haben schon erstaunlich viele Menschen von "Kinshasa Symphony" gehört."

20.07.2010 
Kinshasa Symphony hat seine Premiere im Kongo.
Der Film läuft "open air" am 20.7., dann als Gala-Vorstellung für das gesamte Orchester am 21. Juli im "Hotel Venus" und am 22. Juli im "Centre Culturel Wallonie-Bruxelles" fileadmin/user_upload/pdfs/PM_Filmvorfuehrung_in_Kinshasa.pdf>>>

26.06.2010
Kinshasa Symphony erhält den Publikumspreis beim „Festival des Deutschen Films“ >>>

04.05.2010
AWARDS OPEN DOEK FILMFESTIVAL 2010
Special Mention: Kinshasa Symphony "The jury was very enthusiastic about the portrayal of the creative musicians in Congo."

15.3.2010
Kinshasa Symphony opens the prestigious "Visions du Réel" festival in Nyon (Switzerland) on 15 April 2010 

8.3.2010 World premier of Kinshasa Symphony a complete success: two showings completely sold out, keen interest from the audience

18.1.2010
Kinshasa Symphony selected for Berlinale 2010
The film “Kinshasa Symphony” celebrates its world premiere at “Berlinale Special” on February 17^th 2010, 21:45h (rerun February 18^th, 18:00h, Cubix 8)

30.10.2009
The team is back in Berlin and the postproduction has started already.

16.10.2009
The second phase of filming in Kinshasa has begun. Fortunately, the rains have held off. Rehearsals, outside shots, short musician portraits and a new protagonist: a tubist with his own pharmacy. And: the cameraman still has both his shoes.

4.10.2009
sounding images GmbH has succeeded in bringing the Kinshasa Symphony project to the attention of the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. The orchestra gave the filming team a crate with collected instruments for L’Orchestre Symphonique Kimbanguiste. A long-term partnership is planned between the two orchestras. An instrument maker is also to travel to Kinshasa to offer support and advice locally.

20.08.2009
sounding images has succeeded in securing the patronage of the German Commission for UNESCO for the Kinshasa Symphony project. This makes us very proud.

19.08.2009
The first leg of the filming is over. With the exception of one of the cameraman’s shoes that got lost on the flight back, the team and their equipment have returned unscathed…