Kinshasa Kids thrills home crowd

Children get to see acclaimed movie about own country

As the images fade on the crumpled sheet doubling as a movie screen, 400 exuberant teenagers clap hands to the beat of the closing number of Kinshasa Kids, the award-winning movie finally come home.

The one-and-a-half-hour film about music becoming a source of hope for street kids in the Democratic Republic of Congo was released more than two years ago in Europe, where it was acclaimed by critics but never became a box-office hit.