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Asphalt Tribe
Macadam tribu
José Laplaine · 1996
Synopsis
In a large African city, two brothers, Mike and Kapa, roam the streets, the bars and the boxing gyms: Mike, just out of prison for having hung around a little with a policeman's wife, thinks only of girls, Kapa only of boxing, with his friend Duka, the neighbourhood trainer. Their mother, Mère Bavusi, drinks a little and dreams of getting back her place as a cloth seller at the big market. In the evening, at Papa Sandu's bar, people comment on the news of the street and that of the television. One day, Duka decides to get back in the ring against the champion Kabeya.
Context
The film was to be shot in Kinshasa; the war and the end of Mobutu's regime led the director to shoot in Mali, with Lydia Ewandé, Habib Dembélé and Sidy Camara. Co-produced in France, the DRC and Portugal, it was shown at the Directors' Fortnight at Cannes in 1996, then at the Three Continents festival in Nantes. The music is by Papa Wemba, Christian Polloni and Tito Puente. The DRC submitted it for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, without it being selected.
Who it is for
A comedy drama in French, of about an hour and a half; Papa Wemba's songs take up a large part of it.
Prizes and reception
L'Officiel des spectacles notes that it received the prize of the International Confederation of Art Houses at the Namur festival.
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