# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/monique-mbeka-phoba
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:36:54.017Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/monique-mbeka-phoba"
name: "Monique Mbeka Phoba"
slug: "monique-mbeka-phoba"
description: "Monique Mbeka Phoba is a Belgian-born Congolese filmmaker, screenwriter, journalist, and cultural promoter. Regarded as one of Africa's leading documentary filmmakers, her work has been broadcast on African public television channels, including those in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Benin, and Senegal, as well as on European networks such as TV5Monde, RTBF, ARTE, and ZDF. Her award-winning films often address social, cultural, and political issues across Africa. She is the manager of the Brussels-based film production company Rumbacom."
tagline: "Film director from the Democratic Republic of Congo"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1962"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           36.09
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.269006666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2186425/"
    handle:    "nm2186425"
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikiquote.org/wiki/Monique_Mbeka_Phoba"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%88_%D9%85%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%A7_%D9%81%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%A7"
    title: "مونيكو مبيكا فوبا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monique_Mbeka_Phoba"
    title: "Monique Mbeka Phoba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monique_Mbeka_Phoba"
    title: "Monique Mbeka Phoba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monique_Mbeka_Phoba"
    title: "Monique Mbeka Phoba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gpe.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monique_Mbeka_Phoba"
    title: "Monique Mbeka Phoba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%A7_%D7%9E%D7%91%D7%A7%D7%94_%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%91%D7%94"
    title: "מוניק מבקה פובה"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monique_Mbeka_Phoba"
    title: "Monique Mbeka Phoba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6900372"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1680264"
    title: "Monique Mbeka Phoba"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump