Djo Tunda Wa Munga (born 1972) is a Congolese film director and producer. For his 2010 movie Viva Riva! he won the award for Best Director at the African Movie Academy Awards in 2011.
Riva is a small time operator who has just returned to his hometown of Kinshasa, Congo after a decade away with a major score: a fortune in hijacked gasoline. Wads of cash in hand and out for a good time, Riva is soon entranced by beautiful night club denizen Nora, the kept woman of a local gangster.
A layered, engrossing and intriguing look at a national collective trauma and the ambitious initiative to try and heal the wounds.
Papy finds out he has AIDS. His wife and family reject him, he can no longer go to work and has to take care of his children. To be able to obtain the antiretrovirals, a member of his family must accompany him, but he has no one. He turns to desperate measures to get his medicine.