Every year during the Flying Fish Season, large predatory fish such as ‘arayo’ (coryphaena hippurus) pursue the flying fish on their great journey northwards. The fish migrate past Lanyu, and the men of the Yami tribe set out to sea in their traditional canoes to hunt the arayo. The arayo…
Untouchable musicians are trapped at the bottom of India’s caste system. Battling life’s struggles, they keep their spirit alive through music. Tribes of musicians have lived in the Thar desert along the India-Pakistan border for a thousand years. The Manganiyars and Kalbelias have entertained…
From Ward Serrill (The Heart of the Game) and Betsy Chasse (What the Bleep Do We Know!?), Song of the New Earth features the transformative life journey of renowned sound healer, psychotherapist and modern day mystic Tom Kenyon from a young aspiring Nashville musician to an internationally revered sound…
The down load features footage from the concert as well as interviews with the main players and Donal Gallagher, Rory's brother and manager. Interspersed throughout are performances from Rory himself, and it is these that add the requisite poignance to the whole thing. We are also reminded of the…
Songs Along a Stony Road tells the story of Transylvania’s living folk musicians, and of Zoltán Kallós, their guardian angel, intercutting musical performances with scenes from daily life. http://zalafilms.com/films/stony.html
a film by Marie-Clémence & Cesar Paes Shot in Lapland and Brazil, this film is about Man’s relationship with Nature, from the indigenous people’s point of view. Listen to the oral culture of the Saamis from the Arctic and Fulni-ôs from Brazil. Beyond the ice fields, beyond…
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…
