After a CAPES in French at the Marien Ngouabi University of the Congo in 2005, Rufin Mbou Mikima decided, with the support of the French Embassy in the Congo, to pursue cinema studies in Grenoble.
This is how he obtained a Master 2 in creative documentary production in 2007 before enrolling in a thesis on cinema the same year. Doctoral thesis that he will eventually give up in 2012.
From 2005, he swapped his jacket as a high school teacher of letters for that of a filmmaker he tried at the end of his high school years.
2008 : He creates Inzo ya bizizi, a film and audiovisual production company in Pointe Noire, Republic of Congo.
2013 : Created with French-Senegalese filmmaker Angèle Diabang and Patricia Courché, THE FILMS OF LINER, a film and audiovisual production company based in Le Havre.
Since December 2016, founder and director of SARL Havraise Mikaté Productions.
Director, producer, trainer, festival programmer and initiator of the collective of Congolese filmmakers «To zali», based in France, in Le Havre, Rufin Mbou Mikima defines himself as a maker of images and storyteller of lives.
Filmography :
As a film director.
- 2017 : In search of ebony vinyl, documentary of 52 min.
- 2012 : Tsofa, documentary of 51 min/ Award for best short documentary at the Vues d’Afrique festival in Montreal.
- 2008 : In the Eyes, short film, 5 min.
- 2007 : New Sounds , 17 min short documentary
- 2007 : Luann, 14 min documentary short.
- 2007 : We-Others, 45 min documentary/ Collective film.
- 2006 : Tenrikyo, a tradition in black toga, documentary of 60 min.
- 2004 : On behalf of …, 17 min short fiction.
As a producer 
- 2019 : Rajada Dalka (Somali basketball player) by Hana Mire, documentary.
- 2018 : Maki’la by Ekwa Machérie, feature fiction.
- 2015 : Yolande or the wounds of the silence of Léandre-Alain Baker, documentary of 50 min.
- 2014 : Chronicle 44 by Georges Guérin and Maurice Ferlet, short fiction film of 26 min.
- 2013 : Mboté by Tshoper Kambabi, 26 min short fiction film/ 2013 Francophone Award for Best Short Film.
- 2013 : Suffering is a school of the sage of Ariane Astrid ATODJI, documentary of 76 min.
- 2012 : Life is not still by Alassane DIAGO, 60 min documentary / International Grand Prize at Escales documentaries, La Rochelle 2012 / Out-of-Borders Award at the Traces de Vies festival, Vic le Comte 2012
- 2010 : Talents from Congo, documentary series of 10 x 26 min.
In post-production:
Kuntak by Amelia Umuhire (Rwanda/Allemange), feature film fiction
Production in development:
- Dreams, what will be left by Rufin Mbou Mikima, feature documentary;
- The Conquest of the Throne by Rufin Mbou Mikima, feature documentary series;
- Kuntak by Amelia Umuhire (Rwanda/Allemange), feature film fiction.
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