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Overzicht van films
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The Last Song Before the War
This documentary takes us back to the cradle of popular music. In the midst of the Malian desert, under the most unlikely circumstances, an annual… -
Live from UB
Lauren Knapp | 82' | Mongolia | European premiere
Western pop music, from The Beatles to Nirvana, only seeped through piecemeal to Ulan Bator, the capital of Mongolia, over the last decades. Today it -
Luanda – Kinshasa
Stan Douglas | 365' | Canada | -
In a meticulous reconstruction of a famous New York studio session, musicians jam for hours non-stop. Inspired by Godard’s film portrait of The -
Mister Soul – A Story About Donny Hathaway
David Kleijwegt | 88' | Netherlands | World premiere
Soul singer Donny Hathaway’s life was intertwined with the American civil rights movement: his suffering is his generation’s. -
Mittsommernachtstango
Three Argentine friends embark on a musical journey to find out if filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki’s claim is true: that the tango has its roots in… -
New Voices in an Old Flower
Quino Piñero | 69' | Ethiopia | None
Westerners generally view Ethiopia as the mythical land of Rastafarians. However, the contemporary music scene is much richer than that, as this sultr -
Niblock’s Sound Spectrums − Within Invisible Rivers
Thomas Maury | 110' | France | None
Composer-filmmaker Phill Niblock helped pioneer minimal music. Using microtonal variations, he creates almost tangible drones. -
On a le temps pour nous
67' | Belgium | None
Smockey’s raps, poetry and performances honour the political legacy of Burkina Faso’s first democratically elected and then assassinated president. -
Pete and Toshi Get a Camera
At the height of the Cold War, legendary folk singer Pete Seeger took his wife, children and his amateur film camera on a musical world…
