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Directed by Renaud Barret
Florent de La Tullaye Produced by Screenrunner
La Belle Kinoise Screenplay by Renaud Barret
Florent de La Tullaye Cinematography Florent de La Tullaye Renaud Barret Initial release 19 August 2010 (Netherlands) Directors Renaud Barret, Florent De La Tullaye Cast Renaud Barret, Roger Landu, Coco Ngambali, Leon Likabu Screenplay Renaud Barret, Florent De La Tullaye Producers Renaud Barret, Florent De La Tullaye, Yves Chanvillard, Nadim Cheikhrouha Similar Movies about disabilities, Movies about music, Documentaries | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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).
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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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Synopsis
A musical documentary depicting the against-all-odds rise of Staff Benda Bilili, a dynamic band of street musicians from the Democratic Republic of Congo who overcame extreme poverty and physical disability to become beloved stars of the world music circuit. Charting the group’s progress across several years, Benda Bilili! tells a real-life Cinderella story spanning humble beginnings in Kinshasa and a triumphant European tour.