The harmonious universality of musical expression is explored in this rapturous ethnographic look at traditional folk music of Russia.
Category: Culture
The Case of the Three Sided Dream
The exceptional real story of Rahsaan Roland Kirk, the blind musician whose dreams inspired and guided him to create music history.
Balkan Melody
A cultural journey through space and time, where the new cannot exist without the old and the synthesis between East and West is at least as important.
Toumast
…Guitars And Kalashnikovs. Moussa Ag Keyna, ex-rebel and musician, guides us through the living history of the Tuareg.
Imagine Waking Up Tomorrow and All Music Has Disappeared
What will remain when it’s all gone?
i itsai Romni – the child Woman
A unique real-life film about the institution of marriage in the Romani tribe.
The Joy of Sound
An ode to sound, that mysterious, invisible and intangible phenomenon that brings pleasure and togetherness – and sometimes irritation.
A Balloon For Allah – Trilogy
The award winning trilogy on gender and Islam by the Norwegian-Turkish filmmaker Nefise Özkal Lorentzen
La Belle at the Movies
The real story of a city without cinemas. A testimony of a moment in time where the film industry feels orphaned but lives in hope for a brighter future.
Kibera Sauti – Sounds of Kibera
A motivating real-life story, about how talent and creativity can bloom in conditions of extreme poverty and hardship
Songs From the Soil
A visual poem that challenges our experience of beauty and ugliness, in a time and place where nature is the protagonist.