Félicité | Press Conference Video Highlights | Berlinale 2017
Alain Gomis (Director, Screenwriter)
Véro Tshanda Beya (Actress)
Gaetan Claudia (Actor)
Papi Mpaka (Actor)
Arnaud Dommerc (Producer)
Oumar Sall (Producer)
Moderation: Vincenzo Bugno
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Félicité is a proud and independent woman who works as a singer in a bar in Kinshasa. Whenever she goes on stage, she appears to leave the world and her everyday worries behind. Her audiences are quickly infected by the rhythm of her music and her powerful, melancholy melodies. But then one day Félicité’s son has a terrible accident. Whilst he is in hospital she desperately tries to raise the money needed for his operation. A breathless tour through the impoverished streets and the wealthier districts of the Congolese capital ensues. One of the bar’s regulars is a man named Tabu who has been known to get carried away in every sense of the term. Tabu offers to help Félicité. Reluctantly, she accepts. After his spell in hospital, Félicité’s son has a hard time picking up his old life, but it is lady’s man Tabu of all people who manages to coax him out of his shell. Félicité’s sparsely furnished flat with its permanently defunct fridge becomes a mini utopia in a country that holds no hope for most of its population. The trio forms an eccentric community thrown together by fate, each of whom is free to go their separate ways together.
by
Alain Gomis
France / Senegal / Belgium / Germany / Lebanon 2017
Lingala
123 min · Colour
WITH
Véro Tshanda Beya (Félicité)
Gaetan Claudia (Samo)
Papi Mpaka (Tabu)
CREW
Written and directed by
Alain Gomis
Director of Photography
Céline Bozon
Editor
Fabrice Rouaud
Music
The Kasaï Allstars
Sound Design
Jean-Pierre Laforce, Fred Meert
Sound
Benoit De Clerck
Production Design
Oumar Sall (le grand)
Costumes
Nadine Ostobogo Boucher, Emma Zola
Make-up
Nadine Ostobogo Boucher, Ana Senghor
Assistant Director
Demba Deye, Delphine Daull
Casting
Roger Ngandu Kangudia, Deschamps Matala Shakembo
Production Manager
Oumar Sall
Producers
Arnaud Dommerc, Alain Gomis, Omar Sall
Executive Producer
Roger Ngandu Kangudia
Co-producers
Anne-Laure Guégan, Géraldine Sprimont, Vanessa Ciszewski, Georges Schoucair
Co-production
Need Productions, Brüssel
Katuh Studio, Berlin
Schortcut Films, Beirut
