Benda Bilili! (2010)

1h 26m
Running Time

August 19, 2010
Release Date

Benda Bilili! (2010)

1h 26m
Running Time

August 19, 2010
Release Date

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Plot.

Ricky has a dream: to make Staff Benda Bilili the best band in Congo Kinshasa. Roger, a street child, more than ever wants to join these stars of the ghetto, who get around in customized tricycles. Together, they must avoid the pitfalls of the street, stay united and find the force to hope in music. For six years, from the first rehearsals to their triumph in international festivals, BENDA BILILI! (“beyond appearances”) is the story of this dream come reality.

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Cast & Crew.

Léon Likabu

Léon Likabu

Self

Coco Ngambali Yakala

Coco Ngambali Yakala

Himself

Roger Landu

Roger Landu

Self

Theo Nsituvuidi

Theo Nsituvuidi

Himself

Claude Kinunu Montana

Claude Kinunu Montana

Himself

Cubain Kabeya

Cubain Kabeya

Self

Paulin Kiara-Maigi

Paulin Kiara-Maigi

Self

Djunana Tanga-Suele

Djunana Tanga-Suele

Himself

Maria Barli Djongo

Maria Barli Djongo

Self

Makembo Nzalé Zadis Mbulu Nzungu

Makembo Nzalé Zadis Mbulu Nzungu

HImself

Renaud Barret

Renaud Barret

Actor

Waroma Abi-Ngoma Kabanba Kabose Kasungo

Waroma Abi-Ngoma Kabanba Kabose Kasungo

Himself

Frédérique Dumas-Zajdela

Frédérique Dumas-Zajdela

Producer

Florent de La Tullaye

Florent de La Tullaye

Director

La Belle Kinoise

La Belle Kinoise

Producer

Yves Chanvillard

Yves Chanvillard

Producer

Details.

Release Date
August 19, 2010

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 26m

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Wiki.

Benda Bilili! is a 2010 documentary by Renaud Barret and Florent de La Tullaye, produced by Yves Chanvillard and Nadim Cheikhrouha (Screenrunner).

The film follows the Kinshasa street musician group Staff Benda Bilili, whose core members of the group are disabled due to polio. "Benda Bilili" means "look beyond appearances" in Lingala.

Renaud Barret and partner Florent de La Tullaye first spotted the group performing on the streets of Kinshasa in 2004. The shooting lasted 5 years until the Staff Benda Bilili became worldwide acclaimed. Amid this larger arc of triumph over adversity, it's Barret and de La Tullaye's joint eye for smaller personal and environmental details that keep the film witty and surprising: the camera captures the social cut-and-thrust of urban Kinshasa, before reflecting the group's wonder at a wider world they previously imagined only in mythic terms. In Benda Bilili!, the sense of discovery between subject and audience is thrillingly mutual.

Benda Bilili! received standing ovations when it opened at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, with the group in attendance, and performing at the Directors' Fortnight opening party.The film opened in American theatres in 2011, although a planned U.S. tour in conjunction with the film had to be canceled due to passport problems.

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