Kinshasa Beta Mbonda

In Kinshasa, a dozen young percussionists animate the popular district of Barumbu. They are the Beta Mbonda, former delinquents from violent gangs - the Kulunas. Music gave a new meaning to their lives and sealed their friendship. Between odd jobs and musical improvisations, they invent rhythms and sing about the difficulties of everyday life with a light-hearted spirit of play. Like a Greek choir, using traditional instruments or banal objects, their songs resonate in the space of Kinshasa and echo a city-world adrift.

Keywords

  • Cine-Short: 90 Minutes of cinema
  • City Trips: Movies with City names
  • Music & Cinema
  • Just released
  • music

Director

  • Marie-Françoise Plissart

Documentary

52min

tous publics

LN-LN

FR

EN

Belgium
In Kinshasa, a dozen young percussionists animate the popular district of Barumbu. They are the Beta Mbonda, former delinquents from violent gangs - the Kulunas. Music gave a new meaning to their lives and sealed their friendship. Between odd jobs and musical improvisations, they invent rhythms and sing about the difficulties of everyday life with a light-hearted spirit of play. Like a Greek choir, using traditional instruments or banal objects, their songs resonate in the space of Kinshasa and echo a city-world adrift.

In Kinshasa, a dozen young percussionists animate the popular district of Barumbu. They are the Beta Mbonda, former delinquents from violent gangs - the Kulunas. Music gave a new meaning to their lives and sealed their friendship. Between odd jobs and musical improvisations, they invent rhythms and sing about the difficulties of everyday life with a light-hearted spirit of play. Like a Greek choir, using traditional instruments or banal objects, their songs resonate in the space of Kinshasa and echo a city-world adrift.


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