Benda Bilili! (2010)
August 19, 2010Release Date
Benda Bilili! (2010)
August 19, 2010Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
Léon Likabu
Self
Coco Ngambali Yakala
Himself
Roger Landu
Self
Theo Nsituvuidi
Himself
Claude Kinunu Montana
Himself
Cubain Kabeya
Self
Paulin Kiara-Maigi
Self
Djunana Tanga-Suele
Himself
Maria Barli Djongo
Self
Makembo Nzalé Zadis Mbulu Nzungu
HImself
Renaud Barret
Actor
Waroma Abi-Ngoma Kabanba Kabose Kasungo
Himself
Frédérique Dumas-Zajdela
Producer
Florent de La Tullaye
Director
La Belle Kinoise
Producer
Yves Chanvillard
Producer
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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.