Gangbé!

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Details
Title: Gangbé!
Director: Arnaud Robert
Year: 2015
Country: Switzerland, Benin and Nigeria
Runtime: 58′
Language: French, English, Fon, Toffin and Yoruba
Subtitles: English

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Synopsis
Gangbé! is a documentary about the irresistible Benin musical combo, the Gangbé Brass Band. The band members depart in a bid to conquer the city of Lagos in Nigeria to perform with Femi Kuti at the Shrine. The famous club is a symbol of Afrobeat, created in the 1970s by Femi’s father, the late and legendary Fela Kuti.

While capturing the band’s journey to the metropolis, the film shows the new cultural poles in Benin and Nigeria and the gaps that still separate these neighboring countries. Encountering contemporary ideals of Pan-Africanism, the Gangbé Brass Band finds themselves immersed in a world of new ideas. In a poetic and funky fashion, it opens up new horizons for the future…

Film festival selections
Visions du Réel (Nyon, Switzerland, 2015, World premiere)
Fidadoc (Agadir, Morocco, 2015)
Guadalajara International Film Festival (Guadalajara, Mexico, 2016)
Cinéma le reg’Art, festival de musiques du monde (Les Lointaines, France, 2016)
Margaret Mead Film Festival (New York, United States, 2016)

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This film is part of YardVibes, a streaming platform for content from independent African and Caribbean makers. The platform offers many titles for rent, from feature films and web series to documentaries and short films, with new content added each month. All titles can be rented individually for a modest fee, which will largely benefit the makers. You can find the complete YardVibes film catalogue at www.yardvibes.nl.

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YardVibes is part of Caribbean Creativity, an Amsterdam-based non-profit organization that since 2008 has been committed to the production, programming and promotion of Caribbean and other diversity films in the Netherlands and beyond. Over the years, Caribbean Creativity has organized 200+ screenings in film theaters and at film festivals in the Netherlands, including many Dutch premieres. In 2020, when live screenings were often not possible anymore due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, they launched YardVibes. For more information, visit the Caribbean Creativity website at www.caribbeancreativity.nl.