Thirty-one minutes inside a cobalt mine, and a Tiger Award
A descent into the Mutoshi mine in Katanga, following figures the film calls The Rememberers. It won the IFFR Tiger Short Award this year.
Ndjimu (Deep Cobalt) runs thirty-one minutes and descends into the Mutoshi cobalt mine in Katanga, following figures the film calls "The Rememberers". Petna Ndaliko Katondolo directed, shot and wrote it; sound and music are by Yashaswini Raghunandan; produced by Alkebu Film Productions.
It won the Tiger Short Award at IFFR 2026, worth €5,000.
Cobalt is in the battery in the device you are reading this on. Films about that fact are usually advocacy with a camera attached. This one is a descent, formally, and the difference matters.
Only a jury citation is available; we found no director interview.
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