Pièces D’identité
NR, 97 min.
Directed by Mweze Ngangura, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Jean-Louis Daulne, Gérard Essomba, Herbert Flack, Mwanza Goutier, Cecilia Kankonda, Thilombo Lubambu, Dominique Mesa, David Steegen.

Set in the Zairean quarter of Brussels, this film addresses issues relating to the African diaspora. A Zairean king arrives in Brussels in search of his long-lost daughter, whom he sent to Brussels to study medicine many years before.

This article appears in October 6 • 2000.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.