Félicité

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Product Description Félicité is a proud, free-willed woman working as a singer in a bar in the Congo's capital Kinshasa. Her life is thrown into turmoil when her 14-year-old son gets into a terrible car accident. To raise the money to save him, she sets out on a breakneck race through the streets of electric Kinshasa - a world of music and dreams. Grand Jury Prize winner at the Berlin International Film Festival, FÉLICITÉ is also an official selection at the Toronto International Film Festival and New York Film Festival, and will be this year's official entry for Senegal for Best Foreign Language Film for the Academy Awards. Review A dramatic portrait of a fierce, intrepid woman --The New YorkerCongolese singer-turned-actress Véro Tshanda Beya proves entirely mesmerizing from the moment the camera alights on her strong-featured, deep-gazing face, sometimes shading entire histories of dismissal, disappointment, and ongoing resistance into a single expression --VarietyCaptivating… its humanist, musical vibrancy makes a major case for the significance and individuality of African cinema --The Playlist