Rumba Rules, New Genealogies (2020)
- Directed by
- David Nadeau Bernatchez, Sammy Baloji
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- Democratic Republic of the Congo, Canada
- Runtime
- 1h 48m
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
This documentary profiles the Congolese rumba band Orchestre de Brigade Sarbati in Kinshasa. It shows the musicians as they rehearse, perform, and navigate daily life.
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What happens
Rumba Rules, New Genealogies (French: Rumba Rules, nouvelles généalogies) is a documentary film, directed by Sammy Baloji and David Nadeau-Bernatchez and released in 2020. A coproduction of companies from Canada, Belgium and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the film is a portrait of the music scene in Kinshasa, centred in particular on the Congolese rumba group Orchestre de Brigade Sarbati. The film premiered in November 2020 at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, and had its Canadian premiere in September 2021. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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