Music Movies

En passant

Pinscreen animation short made for the NFB's "Chants populaires" series of French-Canadian folk songs. En Passant illustrates the song "Et moi je m'enfouiyais."

Liebe, Jazz und Übermut

Barbie: Big City, Big Dreams

Barbie meets another Barbie Roberts, forming a close friendship, nicknaming each other Malibu and Brooklyn when they both attend the Handlers, Performing Art School in NYC, over the summer, competing for a spot at the spotlight solo.

Dancing

The film's plot, which largely takes place in a cabaret, revolves around a worldly guy who had abandoned a mature lover for a younger and more beautiful one. It is very elementary and is just a pretext for a parade of popular songs. Currently considered lost.

Ali Farka Touré - Le miel n'est jamais bon dans une seule bouche

This documentary follows the legendary African singer and guitarist Ali Farka Touré (who died in 2006) as he returns to his home and musical roots in Niafunké, the village on the banks of the River Niger in Mali. Touré now sees himself as a farmer and family man, and is trying to improve agricultural and social conditions in the province of Timbuktu. The region has no roads and no electricity and Touré himself drove director Marc Huraux across the vast expanse of unforgiving desert land that surrounds Niafunké to make this film. The cameras accompany Touré as he goes about his daily farm business, and fulfilling his role and responsibilities as an important local figure.

Fist Power

Lionel Soukaz followed Tom de Pékin in Paris, filming a succession of quick portraits of the graphic designer's entourage in a playful rhythm. music : The Brain, Kerozen voices : Tom de Pékin, Katharina

The Contest

About the legendary musical competition between the famous Turkmen dutar player Shukur Bakhshy and Persian court musician Ghulam Bakhshy.

Rangalya Ratri Asha

A talented Tabla player is unable to handle his meteoric rise and squanders away his talent and happiness when he finds himself falling for a danseuse even as he beats himself up for ignoring his loving wife. A tragic drama that is also a showcase for Natya Sangeet, Hindustani Classical and folksy Laavani.

Šammal

The Spice Girls

Plot unknown. Described as an animated project featuring the music group The Spice Girls as super heroes.

Cadiz - Madriz

Can't Buy Me Lunch: Another Look at The Rutles

Twenty-three years after the release of the original Beatles mockumentary, 'The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash', famous artists, actors and musicians speak out on how The Rutles influenced them.

The Music Man

Ali is son of a well-off family who plays the santoor (an Iranian instrument) and has earned some reputation through his concerts and teaching music but is rejected by his family because of this profession, which they despise. He falls for one of his music students but after a short blissful period, life doesn't treat him as well as before and also his addiction agonizes him in his numbered days before redemption.

Krush Groove

Russell Walker is a young, successful manager of rap performers, handling acts for the Krush Groove label, including Run-DMC and The Fat Boys. When Run-D.M.C. has a hit record and Russell needs more money to press more copies, he borrows it from a street hustler and soon regrets his decision.

Bernstein Mahler Rehearsal

"Four Ways to Say Farewell" is a personal introduction to Mahler and his Ninth Symphony, during which Leonard Bernstein is seen and heard rehearsing the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. Filmed in 1971, this rehearsal was directed by Humphrey Burton,

Fruit Rockers

A former con-artist gathers a bunch of girls and puts together an all-female rock band.

Malandros em Quarta Dimensão

Twilight Spirit

A collaboration with Chicago’s Judson Claiborne that captures the desert hallucinations of David Morehouse, former CIA spy and author of Psychic Warriors.

The Eddy Duchin Story

The life story of the famous pianist and band-leader of the 1930s and 1940s.

Mahler

Famed composer Gustav Mahler reflects on the tragedies of his life and failing marriage while traveling by train.