Films by Peter Klum

Germany 2011, 52 min
by Michael Grotenhoff

Africa has the fastest growing mobile phone market in the world. With mobile money, payment by mobile phone, nearly everything can be paid. The continent is gaining ground when it comes to networking and digitization. In Rwanda e.g. 6000 kilometres of fiberglass cable are installed to enable the connection with the World Wide Web and the world. For millions of pupils and students the flow of information, the quick exchange with science facilities or libraries is extremely important. Nevertheless

Germany 2010, 95 min
by Martin Baer, Claus Wischmann

"Kinshasa Symphony" shows how people living in one of the most chaotic cities and one of the poorest countries in the world have managed to forge one of the most complex systems of human cooperation ever invented: a symphony orchestra. It is a film about the Congo, about the people of Kinshasa and about music. In the fifteen years of its existence, the Orchestre Symphonique Kimbanguiste has survived two violent coups d'état and an ongoing war that has claimed the lives of several million people.