Winner
Silver Bear
Berlin International Film Festival
Nominee
Golden Bear
Berlin International Film Festival
Mr. Gomis's cinematic style is spectacularly multifaceted. The camerawork and cutting often have the fleetness of a documentary.
Felicite
Félicité is a proud, free-willed woman working as a singer in a Kinshasa bar. Her life is thrown into turmoil when her 14-year-old son falls victim to an accident. To save him, she sets out on a breakneck race through the streets of her electric city – a world of music and dreams where she’ll cross paths with Tabu…
Official Selection: 2017 Berlinale, Toronto Int’l Film Festival & NY Film Festivals
FÉLICITÉ has been chosen by Senegal as their “Official Oscar Submission” for Best Foreign Language Film for the 2018 Academy Awards ®
Great musical soundtrack featuring Kasai All Stars! See: https://kasaiallstars-felicite-en.tumblr.com/
"Beya ... arrives fully formed here as a figure of enormous dignity and warmth, a pillar of resilience who is nonetheless all-too-humanly susceptible to exhaustion, grief and despair." (Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times)
"POWERFULLY EXPRESSIVE...A MUSICAL, FEATURING EXHILARATING PERFORMANCES." - Richard Brody, The New Yorker
Runtime: 123 min
Language: French, Lingala
Director: Alain Gomis
Cast: Gaetan Claudia, Papi Mpaka, Véro Tshanda Beya Mputu
Awards:
- Winner, Silver Bear, Berlin International Film Festival
- Nominee, Golden Bear, Berlin International Film Festival
FEATURED REVIEW:
Alan Scherstuhl, Village Voice
Véro Tshanda Beya Mputu, the Congolese singer turned actress making her screen debut in Alain Gomis’s tough-minded life-in-Kinshasa character study 'Félicité,' can pierce your heart with her croon, rouse your soul with her shout, move you with her mien of c...
Véro Tshanda Beya Mputu, the Congolese singer turned actress making her screen debut in Alain Gomis’s tough-minded life-in-Kinshasa character study 'Félicité,' can pierce your heart with her croon, rouse your soul with her shout, move you with her mien of c...
