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Film Market
The first in the world music business
Officially part of WOMEX for the 7th year in 2008, the WOMEX Film Market/IMZ Film Screenings are presented in cooperation with IMZ International Music + Media Centre, Vienna - see www.imz.at.
See also our World Music Films on Tour page!
WOMEX Film Programme 08
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© ZDF/ARTE | A Different Way –
Tango with Rodolfo Mederos/
El Otro Camino –
Mederos spielt Tango
ZDF/ Arte, Kelon Media
Friday 16:30 – 17:30 Bahía Room
- Genre: Documentary
- Production Companies: Kelon Media (Germany/Spain)/ ZDF/ARTE (Germany/France)
- TV Producers: Christopher Janssen,
Isabel Iturriagagoitia - Director: Gabriel Szollosy
- Camera: Nyika Jancsó
- Editor: Steffen Herrmann
- Recorded: Buenos Aires, 2007
- Duration: 56'
| Rodolfo Mederos is a bandoneon player and a leading authority on the art of tango. Born in Buenos Aires and still living there today, the city has always been his muse. The sounds of his bandoneon conjure up musical images of life, evoking glimpses of the hidden corners and turbulent times of his native city. Playing in different combinations, ranging from solo to the full orquesta tipica, Mederos takes the spectator on a musical journey through Buenos Aires, full of atmosphere and wisdom. The music also features two extraordinary singers, the young Ariel Ardit and the flamenco star Miguel Poveda, whose passionate performance is just one of the many highlights of the film.
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©Nomadic Wax/Sol Productions | African Underground: Democracy in Dakar
Nomadic Wax and Sol Productions
Friday 12:00 – 13:10 Bahía Room
- Genre: Documentary
- Production Company:
Nomadic Wax (USA) - Co-Production Company: Sol Productions (USA)
- Producers & Directors: Ben Herson,
Magee McIlvane, Chris Moore - Camera: Magee McIlvaine, Chris
Moore - Editor: Magee McIlvaine
- Recorded: Dakar, 2008
- Duration: 70'
| African Underground: Democracy in Dakar is a groundbreaking documentary film about hip-hop youth and politics in Dakar, Senegal. The film follows rappers, DJs, journalists, professors and people on the street in the times before, during and after the controversial 2007 presidential election in Senegal and examines hip-hop's role on the political process. Originally shot as a seven part documentary mini-series released via the Internet, the documentary bridges the gap between hip-hop activism, video journalism and documentary film and explores the role of youth and musical activism on the political process.
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©micheljaffrennou.desertblues/mondomix | Desert Blues, a Musical Journey into the Heart of Mali/
Desert Blues, un Voyage Musical au coeur du Mali
Mondomix Media
Thursday 17:30 – 18:30 Bahía Room
- Genre: Documentary
- Production Company: Mondomix Media (France)
Co Production Company: ARTE France (France)
Associated Production Company:
Contre Jour (Belgium), Divano Production (Belgium),
Mali K7 (Mali) - Producers: Marc Benaïche,
Catherine Zbinden
- Director, Author: Michel Jaffrennou
- Camera: Emmanuel Soyer
- Editor: Nicolas Sardjvéladzé
- Recorded: Mali, 2006
- Duration: 60'
| Michel Jaffrennou's musical film Desert Blues is an "opera-journey" into the heart of Mali with some of its greatest musicians: Habib Koité, Afel Bocoum, and the women of the Tuareg group Tartit. Michel Jaffrennou's film is a musical tale, combining the real and the imaginary; an invitation to travel deep into the Sahara and the Niger River, a voyage across sand and water. Symbiotically, in tune with the world of the musicians and their music, it is about the creation of sound-images, of song-images that tell the story of Mali, the Mali of today, land of enchantment.
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©Dirk Hilbert/Christoph Lemmen | Krishna's Dancer
Neue Wertarbeit
Thursday 16:15 – 16:30 Bahía Room
- Genre: Documentary
- Production Company: Neue
Wertarbeit (Germany/India)
- Producer: Anna Wendt
- Director/ Author: Dirk Hilbert
- Camera: Christoph Lemmen
- Recorded :Kolgata, 2007
- Duration: 15'
| Krishna's Dancer is an homage and declaration of love to a young Indian Kathak dancer of the new generation and simultaneously shows respect to the ancient culture.
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©John Simpson | Lay Down Your Hearts
Kevala Films
Friday 14:30 – 15:25 Bahía Room
- Genre: Documentary
- Production Company: Kevala
Films (UK)
Co-Production Company:
Palanquin Productions (UK)
Associated Production
Company: Realworld (UK) - Producer, Director: John Simpson
Executive Producer:
Anne Francoeur - Editor: Gerard Evans
- Recorded: Recorded Tanzania,
2008 - Duration: 52'
| | Lay Down Your Hearts tells the dramatic story of the rise and fall of an East African musical dynasty, catapulted into the limelight only to be ravaged by AIDS. Hukwe Zawose was a goatherd until his musical genius caught the attention of Tanzanian leader, Julius Nyrere. Casting off his shepherd's life to run a college for music at the ancient slave depot of Bagamoyo, which means "lay down your hearts", he became an international star and a friend of Peter Gabriel. Tragically, AIDS blighted his career, before sweeping away other members of his family. Enjoying unique access to the clan, John Simpson's heart-warming film shows how a new generation of Zawoses is battling against the odds to keep Hukwe's legacy alive. | | | 
©EarthSync | Laya Project
EarthSync
Thursday 15:00 – 16:10 Bahía Room
- Genre: Documentary
- Production Company: EarthSync (India)
Co-Production Company:
Boo Films (Malaysia),
Clementine Studio (India) - Producers: Sonya Mazumdar,
Joanne De Rozario - Directors: Harold Monfils
- Recorded: Thailand, Sri Lanka,
India, Maldives, Indonesia,
Myanmar, 2007 - Duration: 68'
| Laya Project – a personal and collective audio-visual tribute to the resilience of the human spirit. The film is a visual journey documenting folk music recorded and filmed on location in Sri Lanka, Thailand, Indonesia, Maldives, India and Myanmar. Some of these performances are rare, and documented for the first time. The musicians are primarily from coastal communities affected by the Tsunami of 26 December 2004. For the international team of musicians, sound engineers and camera men who came together for this unique production, Laya Project is a celebration of life, and is dedicated to the survivors. Crossing boundaries of genre while still preserving the music of the people, Laya Project's essence is artistic purity and simplicity, from a non-judgmental point of view.
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©Magnifico: "Land of Champions" | Link TV's Best Video Finds of 2008
Link TV
Thursday 16:30 – 17:30 Bahía Room
| Every year Link TV compiles a programme consisting of the best world music videos they have shown. These videos come from all over the world. This year we have great videos from Slovenia, India, Brazil and Canada.
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©canalmicro | Mariem Hassan, the Voice of the Sáhara/
Mariem Hassan, la Voz de Sáhara
Nubenegra
Saturday 15:00 – 15:55 Bahía Room
- Genre: Documentary
- Production Company:
Canalmicro (Spain) - Producers: Manuel Dominguez,
Ángel Carmona - Executive Producer: Ignacio
Perez Pinó, Manuel Dominguez
- Director/Editor/Author/Associated Producer:
Manuel Dominguez - Camera: Manuel Dominguez, José Israel Díaz, Sonia Marques, Ángel Carmona, Valeria Pugliese
- Music by: Mariem Hassan, Baba
Salama Said, Nayim Alal, Boika Hassan, Luis Delgado, Hugo Westerdahl - Recorded: Madrid, Würzburg,
Helsinki, St. Nazaire, Refugee Camps: Dajla, Auserd, Smara, a.o., 2008 - Duration: 55'
| | Mariem Hassan is the voice of the Sahara, the voice of the desert. Adored by Saharawis living in exile, Mariem Hassan is an iconic figure who gives hope to those who still live in the territories occupied by Morocco. With her prodigious voice and intelligence, she's been able to bring Saharawi music up to date and make it accessible for 21st century music audiences. In the film we are taken through the highs and lows of Mariem's eventful life to discover her as a courageous and enduring character as we witness her artistic transformation into one of the most charismatic and respected figures of the world music scene. | | | 
©EBU | Parno Graszt – Life with a Hungarian Gypsy Band
European Roots Series
MTV/ EBU, Podium Productions
Saturday 16:00 – 17:00 Bahía Room
- Genre: Documentary
- Production Companies: Company EBU European Broadcasting Union (Switzerland), Podium Productions (Hungary)
Co-Production Company:
Hungarian Television (Hungary) - Producer: Ágnes Bársony
Executive Producer:
Simon Broughton - Director: Sándor Silló
- Editor:Tamás Breitner, Olga
Polgári - Camera: Tibor Nemes
- Recorded: Paszab, 2004
- Duration: 59'
| Parno Graszt is a fantastic Gypsy band from a small town on the Tisza river in Northeast Hungary. We see the way they live in poor, simple houses and play mainly outdoors to provide the musical lifeblood of the village. With 80% unemployment and strong anti-Gypsy sentiments across the country, this is a rare and intimate portrait of Romany life in Hungary.
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Nyasha Laing
Saturday 12:00 – 12:30 Bahía Room
- Genre: Documentary
- Production Company: Paranda
Media (USA) - Producer, Director, Author: Nyasha Laing
- Camera: Cybel Martin,
Khary Jones, Mano Sij - Editor:Michael Tyner
- Music by: Al Bando, Ivan Duran, Andy Palacio, Paul Nabor, Herman Ramos, Lucio Enriquez, Sofia Blanco, Pen Cayetano, Vince Lewis
- Recorded: Belize, Spain, 2008
- Duration: 27'
| Punta Soul is the story of a music in migration. Punta rock is an electric, percussive sound deeply rooted in centuries-old Afro-indigenous traditions and the rich experiences of the Garifuna people of Belize and Central America. Through the evolution of this music, Punta Soul explores the impact of the Garifuna journey on contemporary cultural identity and the cultural renaissance in Belize.
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SPIF Studio za pozoriste i film/
Studio of Theatre and Film
Friday 15:30 – 16:25 Bahía Room
- Genre: Documentary
- Production Company: Studio of Theatre and Film (Serbia)
- Producer, Executive Producer, Director, Author: Milos Stojanovic
- Script, Interviews: Tanja Berclaz
- Camera: Nikola Majdak Jr.
- Editor: Srdjan Radmilovic
- Music by: Shaban Bajramovic
- Recorded: Mostar, Geneva, Paris, Nis, 2007
- Duration 52'
| In the Bosnian and Herzegovina city of Mostar, at the city's Pavarotti Music Studio, Shaban Bajramovic – the king of Gypsy music – is cutting his new album. In parallel, back in Shaban's hometown, the Serbian city of Nis, Shaban tells the tale of his life. His qualities are expressed with warmth and honesty through the recollections of his wife Milica, childhood friend Belly, his colleague and friend Ljiljiana Petrovic-Butler (the Gypsy Ella Fitzgerald) and many more of Shaban's closest friends and fellow music professionals, who all contribute to showing us why Shaban is the biggest Roma singer in the world.
The film portrait is even more poignant given Shaban’s death in June 2008. | | |  | The Dancing Room
BBC
Friday 17:30 – 18:30 Bahía Room
- Genre: Contemporary Dance Film
- Production Company: BBC (UK)
- Producer: Paul Hughes Smith
Executive Producer:
Bob Lockyer - Director: Simon Broughton
- Camera: John Record
- Editor: Malcolm Daniel
- Choreography: Kate Flatt
- Scenography: Sally Jacobs
- Music by: Muzsikás
- Recorded: London, 1995
- Duration 45'
| In Transylvania music accompanies most of the rituals of life and death. In this enigmatic dance piece, the Hungarian band Muzsikás provide the music and are part of the action around a dozen characters from young to old. Although the music is traditional, the dance is contemporary and draws on many styles and traditions from round the world. Filmed in an eerie underground location, The Dancing Room is a powerful and memorable piece specially-worked for the camera.
There will be plenty of time for questions and discussion. | | | 
©Possible Pictures, Mondomix studio | Wijdan, the Mystery of Gnawa Trance Music/
Wijdan, le mystère de la musique de transe des Gnawa
Possible Pictures
Saturday 17:00 – 17:55 Bahía Room
- Genre: Documentary
- Production Company: Possible
Pictures (USA)
Associated Production Company:
Mandala Productions (France) - Producer, Executive Producer, Author: Bella le Nestour
Associated Producer: Jean-Baptiste Francine, Khalil Benkirane - Director/Editor: John Allen
- Camera: John Allen, Khalil
Benkirane - Music by: Brahim el Belkani, Sibiri Samaké
- Recorded: Dar Denise Mason,
Marrakech, Paris, 2004 - Duration: 52'
| | The film Wijdan captures the mysterious power of a Gnawa trance ceremony in Marrakech. Painting an intimate portrait of two musicians, the Gnawa Brahim el Belkani and the Malian shaman Sibiri Samaké, Wijdan is a testament to a fast changing Africa. Breaking away from the anthropological genre this documentary conveys the modernity of these masters of the supernatural as they transmit secret knowledge to their children, because "who knows the colour of the chick before it hatches?" | | | Film proposals are independently juried by the IMZ International Music + Media Centre, Vienna.
The deadline for film proposals was Friday, 18 April 2008!
The IMZ International Music + Media Centre in Vienna is a non-profit association of more than 180 leading audiovisual producers of cultural and arts programmes from 35 countries around the world. Founded in 1961 under the patronage of UNESCO, it has since established its position as an information and communication centre for audio-visual music production, as mediator between music creators and the media, and as a strong advocate of using modern technology for the visualisation of music - an international platform for each and every aspect of music in audiovisual media.
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The Film Market
The first Film Market for world music
Film Programme 07
World Music Films on Tour
Officially part of WOMEX for the sixth year in 2007, the WOMEX Film Market/IMZ Film Screenings are presented in cooperation with IMZ International Music + Media Centre, Vienna.
The IMZ International Music + Media Centre in Vienna is a non-profit association of more than 180 leading audiovisual producers of cultural and arts programmes from 35 countries around the world. Founded in 1961 under the patronage of UNESCO, it has since established its position as an information and communication centre for audio-visual music production, as mediator between music creators and the media, and as a strong advocate of using modern technology for the visualisation of music - an international platform for each and every aspect of music in audiovisual media.
Film Programme 07
WOMEX 07 day schedule  | Beatbox Colombia (Germany)
Colombian rap & hip-hop
Saturday 15.10 - 16.10 Screening Room Bahia
- Genre: Documentary
- Production Company: Vidicon Berlin (Germany)
- Producer: Soeren Schmidt
- Associated Producer, TV Director: Dirk Lienig
- Camera: Sebastian Hoehn
- Recorded: Colombia, 2005
- Duration 60'
| They call themselves "Ghetto's Clan", "Topomental" or "Operando". They are between 19 and 29 years old. Their passion is rap music. They write songs about the life and death that surrounds them. Their homes are the ghettos of Bogota and Cali, two of the largest cities of one of the most dangerous countries in the world, Colombia. The documentary follows young musicians from the ghettos whose lyrics speak of daily life; civil war, street violence, corruption, drugs and the disappearance of close friends. Despite everything, they cling to hope and this they express through their music. The film is made in 8 mm and DVCAM and includes Flash Animations. Some of the footage is shot by the musicians themselves.
Photo Dirk Lienig
| | |  | Black and White in Colour (Cernobila v barve)
Vera Bílá's tour of the world of the Gypsies in today's Czech republic
Friday 14.30 - 15.30 Screening Room Bahia
- Genre: Documentary
- Production Company: Arcimboldo Productions Limited (UK)
- Producer: David Charap
- TV Director: Mira Erdevicki
- Camera: Marek Jicha
- Recorded: 1999
- Duration 59'
| Through the life and music of the singer Vera Bílá, the viewer is transported to the world of the Gypsies in today's Czech republic. The film follows Vera on a search for her musical roots and to find a bride for her son. The journey takes her from the impoverished townships in Slovakia to the concert stage in Paris. Along the way director Mira Erdevicki manages to create an intimate portrait of an extraordinary individual that is sympathetic but never sentimental, and often very funny indeed.
Photo Nikola Tacevski
| | |  | Celtic Connections
Highlights of the festival's 14th year.
Friday 15.30 - 16.30 Screening Room Bahia
- Genre: Concert relay
- Production Company: BBC Scotland (UK)
Associated Production Company: BBC Cymru Wales Music (UK) - Producer: Donald MacInnes, Sean Purser
Executive Producer: David M. Jackson, Helen Munro - TV Director: John Smith
- Camera: Marek Jicha
- Recorded: Glasgow, 2007
- Duration 60'
| "Celtic Connections" features artists from around the globe alongside the very best Scottish talent. Taking place in Glasgow every January Celtic Connections has just enjoyed a successful fourteenth year. In this programme Mary Ann Kennedy presents an hour of highlights from this year's festival to include Tejedor, Clannad, The Klezmatics, Jerry Douglas Band and Shooglenifty to name just a few ...
Photo Sean Purser
| | |  | From Mambo to Hip Hop: A Bronx Tale
Two generations of Latino musical culture.
Thursday 14.30 - 15.25 Screening Room Bahia
- Genre: Documentary
- Production Company: City Lore, Inc. (USA)
Co-Production Company: Public Art Films, Inc. (USA) Associated Production Company: City Lore, Inc. (USA) - Producer: Steve Zeitlin, Elena Martinez
Associated Producer: Bobby Sanabria, Roberta Singer - TV Director: Henry Chalfant
- Camera: Mike Harlow
- Recorded: New York City, 2006
- Duration 55'
| "From Mambo to Hip Hop: A Bronx Tale" presents a panoramic view of the music that blossomed in the Latino community of the South Bronx from the late 1940's, when mambo burst onto the New York cultural scene, through the birth of hip hop in the 1970s. The film chronicles two generations who grew up literally on the same streets, and both used rhythm as their form of rebellion - for the older generation it was the pulsating rhythms of Cuba; for their children it was the rhythms of rap.
Photo Martha Cooper
| | |  | Ishumars, les Rockers Oubliés du Désert / Desert Rebel
Shot in Niger, first in a series on the culture of resistance across the world.
Saturday 11.30 - 13.05 Screening Room Bahia
- Genre: Documentary
- Production Company: Original Dub Master (France)
- Producer: François Bergeron
Associated Producer: Farid Merabet - Camera/ Author: François Bergeron
- Recorded: Recorded Niger, France, Quebec, 2005
- Duration 95'
| | "Ishumar, les rockers oubliés du désert" is the first in a series of documentaries on the culture of resistance across the world. Born in 2005, the "Desert Rebel" concept was the brainchild of French director François Bergeron. "We set off for Niger with a small team of artists to meet the Tuareg of the Aïr region": Abdallah Oumbadougou from Takrist n'Akal with former guitarist Daniel Jamet (Mano Negra), Guizmo (Tryo) and Amazigh Kateb (Gnawa Diffusion). "When artists meet, history can be powerfully overturned, freed of political stereotypes."" Abdallah's self-taught guitar-playing began at 16 and his compositions reflect his people's dislocation, revolt and grief. For years, Abdallah's songs were banned by the Niger government. Since the peace accords of 1995, he has allied a successful recording career with activities to preserve his community's culture and promote young artists. | | |  | Jupiter's Dance (La danse de Jupiter)
Music today in the ghettos of Kinshasa.
Friday 17.30 - 18.25 Screening Room Bahia
- Genre: Documentary
- Production Company: Label Kinoise (France)
- TV Directors:Florent De la Tullaye, Renaud Barret
- Recorded: Kinshasa, 2005
- Duration 52'
| The ghettos of Kinshasa - the devastated capital of a country politically and economically adrift - are filled with many gifted, yet impoverished musicians. Their outstanding talent, humour and vital energy are their only means of survival. Amongst them, Jupiter, the charismatic leader of the band "Okwess International", acts as our narrator and guide. This local Don Quixote introduces us to the Kinshasa music scene - teenage rappers, handicapped bluesmen, street children, griots and guitar craftsmen - and describes his 20-year struggle to move his songs out of the ghetto.
Photo Label Kinoise
| | |  | Link TV's Best Video Finds of 2007
A collection of the best world music videos broadcast on Link TV in 2007.
Friday 16.30 - 17.30 Screening Room Bahia
- Genre: Music video clips
- Production Company: Link TV (USA)
- Recorded: Recorded 2007
- Duration 60'
| A collection of the best world music videos that were broadcast on Link TV in 2007. Highlights include a dynamic performance by Estrella Morente directed by Spanish director Fernando Trueba, an exceptionally imaginative entry from Chile's La Mano Ajena, and a demonstration of guitar wizardry from Birelli LaGrene.
Photo Estrella Morente
| | |  | Lusophony, the (R)Evolution
The new generation of musicians, producers and DJs in Lisbon.
Friday 13.00 - 14.00 Screening Room Bahia
- Genre: Documentary
- Production Company: Red Bull Music Academy (Portugal)
- Executive Producer Mariana Moore Matos
Authors Artur Soares da Silva, João Xavier - Recorded: Lisbon, 2006
- Duration 60'
| In Lisbon, a new generation of musicians, producers and DJs is asserting itself. Tuned in to the various developments in music, it carries a distinctive trait inherited from the culture which they are a part of: the Lusophone world. Today a Lusophone streak is finally assumed in the creative sphere; a new wave is aware of the heritage of the past and affirms it as a distinctive trait. Hip Hop in Creole, dance music with samplings of Kuduro, Portuguese lyrics over contemporary structures. "Lusophony, the (R)Evolution" is a musical treasure, which summarizes five centuries of history and a calling card for the Lusophone musical identity.
Photo Red Bull Music Academy
| | |  | Nömadak Tx
The Basque wooden instrument, the Txalaparta, on tour and interacting.
Saturday 13.05 - 14.00 Screening Room Bahia
- Genre: Documentary
- Production Company: Arena Comunicación Audiovisual, Parallel 40, Txalap.Art (Spain)
Co-Production CompaniesETB, TVE (Spain) - Producer: Igor Otxoa
- TV Director, Camera, Editor: Raúl De la Fuente
- Recorded: Recorded 2006
- Duration 91'
| | In search of new sounds and voices, two musicians travel to remote places around the world. It starts when they carve a Txlaparta out of wood. This traditional Basque instrument is played by two people at the same time; it does not belong to either of them, but originates from their perfect dialogue. The Txalaparta forms as a meeting point, not only between people but also among cultures. As the musicians journey to intriguing places around the world, from India to the Arctic Circle, each encounter results in unique music - an unforgettable and exhilarating experience. | | |  | The Ball (excerpt)
A folk ball at a market in the South of France with the Brotto-Lopez Duet.
Saturday 14.55 - 15.10 Screening Room Bahia
- Production Company: Piget Production (France) Co-Production Company org &com (France)
- TV Director Amic Bedel
- Recorded: Verfeil sur Ceye (Tarn et Garonne), Occitanie, France, 2005
- Duration 26'
| | A folk ball under a market in the South of France with the Brotto-Lopez Duet. | | |  | The Big Shout
Mozambiquan stars Massukos in the UK for the Make Poverty History campaign.
Saturday 14.30 - 14.55 Screening Room Bahia
- Genre: Documentary
- Production Company: Poo Productions (UK)
Associated Producer: Chris Coultas - Producer Chris Smallwood
- Recorded: London, Edinburgh, Niassa Province, Mozambique, 2005
- Duration 22'
| It's July 2005 and Mozambiquan music stars Massukos arrive in the UK to take part in the Make Poverty History campaign. Water, sanitation and hygiene practice are some of the gravest challenges facing the developing world and this film explores how Massukos use their music to draw attention to these issues. During their UK tour they encounter Gordon Brown MP, Sir Bob Geldof, Rolf Harris, DJ Charlie Gillett and many others. Feliciano dos Santos - the band's leader and the director of local NGO Estamos - also delivers a petition to Tony Blair on behalf of WaterAid. Resounding with phenomenally beautiful music, this powerful and emotive documentary carries many pertinent messages.
Photo Ella Milroy
| | |  | The Last Bissu: Sacred Transvestites of South Sulawesi, Indonesia
A portrait of Puang Matoa Saidi and his struggle to keep the tradition alive.
Saturday 16.10 - 17.10 Screening Room Bahia
- Production Company: Manitou Media Ltd (Indonesia)
Co-Production Company Salto Films (Indonesia) - Producer Shanty Harmyn
- Camera Yudi Datau
- Recorded: South Sulawesi, Indonesia, 2005
- Duration 57'
| Saidi, high priest of an almost extinct religious sect, who is determined not to be the last of the Bissu, encounters a child possessed by the spirits of the past. A portrait of Puang Matoa Saidi and his struggle to keep alive a centuries old tradition rooted in the La Galigo epic. The program follows Saidi, the child and his group through various ceremonies from the court to rice planting rituals and records the chants, drumming, dances and ceremonies central to the life of the Bissu priests and early Bugis people.
Photo Bissu Priests of Segeri, South Sulawesi
| | |  | The Meditation of the Days
An encounter with singer Ferghana Qasimova, Azerbaijan.
Thursday 17.20 - 18.15 Screening Room Bahia
- Genre:Documentary
- Production Company: Michel de Wouters Productions (Belgium)
- Producer Michel de Wouters
- Recorded: Recorded 2007
- Duration 55'
| "The Meditation of the Days" is the encounter with a voice, the one of Ferghana Qasimova. Through the portrait of the woman singer, I wish to share with an international audience the emotions that come out of the Mugam musical tradition of Azerbaijan. Beyond the meaning of the words, the poetry reaches us and invites us to a journey within ourselves. It is this journey that I would like to express in the documentary.
Photo Val ère Le Dourner
| | |  | Three Kings of Belize
Garifuna singer-composer Paul Nabor, Maya harper Florencio Mess, and Creole accordionist, Wilfred Peters.
Friday 11.30 - 13.00 Screening Room Bahia
- Genre:Documentary
- Production Company: Amazone Film (Canada)
Associated Production Company Yaha Films (Belize) - Producer Katia Paradis
- Recorded: Belize, Quebec, Italy and Honduras, 2007
- Duration 89'
| In Belize, three musicians share moments of their daily lives with us. Paul Nabor, 79-year-old Garifuna composer, has played the same guitar for 53 years. Florencio Mess, a Maya harp player, spends his solitude making traditional violins while he awaits his next trip outside his small village. Creole accordionist, Wilfred Peters, is proud to have played for the Queen of England; his ineffable humour is his antidote for the old age. As time goes by, we are reminded that nothing is eternal. Despite the lack of interest by the younger generation, these men offer us a glimpse of hope, freedom and humanity.
Photo Katia Paradis
| | |  | When the Road Bends...Tales of a Gypsy Caravan
Five Gypsy bands from four countries unite.
Thursday 15.30 - 17.20 Screening Room Bahia
- Genre:Documentary
- Production Company: Little Dust Productions (USA)
- Camera: Albert Maysles, Alain De Halleux
- Producer Jasmine Dellal
- Recorded: Recorded 2006
- Duration 110'
| Five Gypsy bands from four countries unite for the Gypsy Caravan as they take their music around North America for a six-week tour, astounding every audience they meet. Their musical styles range from flamenco to brass band, Romanian violin to Indian folk. And with fire in their bellies and soul in their voices, they celebrate the best in Gypsy culture and the diversity of the Romani people in an explosion of song and dance. As the film follows the performances and behind-the-scenes action from the tour, we discover the real lives of these musicians and see what music brings to their lives. We get to know them and their bands intimately, allowing us to understand their music and to celebrate Romani history and culture.
Photo Stephan Siedler
| | |  | Whose is This Song?
How Balkan musicians adapt, transform and appropriate songs.
Saturday 17.10 - 18.20 Screening Room Bahia
- Genre: Documentary
- Production Company: Adela Media Film & TV Productions (Bulgaria)
Co Production Company: Periscope Productions NV (Belgium) - Camera: Joro Nedelkov
- Producer Slobodan Milovanovic
- Recorded: 2003
- Duration 70'
| | "Whose is this song?" is a film which shows with a sense of humor some of the typical features of the character of the people on the Balkans, as for example their habit of appropriating all that is good and denying the others the right to possess the same qualities, the same songs, the same customs, the same temperament. An exciting journey around Turkey, Greece, Macedonia, Albania, Bosnia, Serbia and Bulgaria, a journey to all the places where people still sing this song which appears once as a love song, another time as a religious hymn, and even as a song inciting for battle. A funny, dramatic and tragicomic account of the search for the truth about a song. | | | update 21.9.2007 / subject to change
The deadline for proposals was 27 April 2007!!
World Music Films on Tour
A brand-new initiative of IMZ in cooperation with WOMEX - click here for the flyer!
The IMZ International Music + Media Centre presents the highlights of world music films & videos in various locations around the world! Bringing world music in film and video to a wider public is the motivation behind this non-commercial distribution project created in 2006 by IMZ in cooperation with WOMEX.
The most outstanding films & videos can be booked and seen!
Check www.imz.at for details.
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