Machérie Ekwa Bahango is a filmmaker from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Her first feature film Maki’la premiered at the Berlinale 2018. Her movie Sema advocated for women’s rights and thematised the issue of sexual violence. It won an award as “Best International Film” at the DC Independent Film Festival 2020 in Washington.

In 2022 she was among the 20 shortlisted candidates selected by Netflix and UNESCO to take part in the short film competition ‘African Folktales, Reimagined’.