a film by Cesar Paes - 88min Available subtitles : English, Français, Deutsch, click on CC button / sous-titres disponibles : Français, English, Deutsch, appuyez sur le bouton CC “Songs for Madagascar” offers an intimate journey across Madagascar and Europe, closely following…
A warm and brutal documentary. Orig. title: "Uteliggernes sang". By following the people of the streets in their everyday struggle, we get an insight to how much effort it takes just to make it from day to day. The contrast is dramatic when Charlie, Kent and Clas, finally can leave all their…
Songs in Stone: an arctic journey home (45:18, 16mm, 1999) A deathbed wish brings together an extended, cross-cultural family. For John’s first film, he co-wrote and directed a documentary about his parents, Inuit art pioneers James and Alma Houston, the Inuit of Cape Dorset, and their very…
As a portrait of a housing project with astonishing shapes (La Maladrerie near Paris), SONGS NEXT DOOR by Flavie Pinatel is a documentary of a different kind, since the protagonists express themselves through songs and not through speech. Implicitly, Flavie describes poetically how people live together…
Details Title: Songs of Redemption Director: Amanda Sans and Miquel Galofré Year: 2013 Country: Jamaica and Spain Runtime: 78' Language: (Jamaican) English Subtitles: English ☀ Synopsis At the General Penitentiary in Kingston, where inmates are serving sentences for crimes as…
At the foot of the Andes Mountains in Chile lies an idyllic German colony called Villa Baviera (Bavarian Village). However, the beauty hides a grim past. This film explores how the residents of the colony use different strategies to cope with traumatic years of abuse, religious fanaticism and complicity…
In 1961, the German preacher Paul Schäfer and his congregation moved to Chile with the stated aim of helping the poor. They established Colonia Dignidad which transformed into a closed sect. This film explores how the remaining residents of the colony deal with 45 years of child abuse, collective…
This is the full version of Songs of the Colorado. The Yuman tribes along the Colorado River have continuously called the lands of the southwest home since creation. Over the thousands of years, the tribes of this region developed a complex set of spiritual beliefs that continues today. These beliefs…
Music elates, touches the soul and bypasses reason. Music is magic. But precisely this magic can turn it into an insidious weapon – for music and violence belong together. The brutal power of African war dances, the ferocity of Maori Hakas, the earth-shattering roar of US sound guns blasting Metallica…
Having fled their home in Iran, the Dayan family is greeted in Houston with hurricanes and perilous politics. Nine-year-old Hana is bold and brilliant and struggles to be heard while her family comes to grips with life in the sprawling Texan metropolis, constantly reaching out to all that is gone but…
SONG SUNG BLUE is a Reel As Dirt award-winning documentary feature film that tells the alternately inspiring and tragic love story of Lightning & Thunder, a homegrown Milwaukee husband and wife singing duo who pay tribute to the music of Neil Diamond. NEIL DIAMOND - "I'M HONORED TO HAVE…
EN/ This documentary film is a 7 years research across Europe to understand and tell the story of a musical culture and testify the richness and the vitality of Drum&Bass. From the origins to nowadays, we will travel along the history of this multi-racial music, and will tell about its evolution…
