We are very excited to share with you the WOMEX 24 Film Programme that features a hand-picked selection of 18 music documentaries including new releases, preview screenings, and premieres and 3 film talks that will take place on-site in Manchester.
Every year, the WOMEX Film team curates the film programme driven by a set of goals: to create a Film selection that will inspire, motivate, entertain, and encourage dialogues and discussions on the most pressing global issues. The WOMEX Film Programme provides a platform for independent filmmakers to showcase their visionary stories to a global audience that values the power of storytelling and seeks fresh voices, new perspectives, and genuine connections.
This year’s programme addresses topics such as collective communities and sound, music as social protest, indigenous music as well as new ways of approaching folk by current generations; the ever-present and elusive quest for love; inclusivity with synaesthesia, immigration and politics, roots of electronic music in Northern England as well as brand new styles across the globe, female empowerment and much more.
The WOMEX 24 Film Programme is divided into Market and Public Screenings and the Film Library, a physical space that features an extended selection of films independent of a scheduled screening and can be watched by WOMEX delegates on-demand at any time. Information about the programme formats is here.
Here is the list of films in the WOMEX 24 Film Programme (in alphabetical order).
Public Screenings (accessible to the general public and delegates)
- How We Have Loved directed by Gustav Ågerstrand
- Machtat directed by Sonia Ben Slama
- Song Of Souls directed by Sai Naw Kham
Market Screenings (accessible to delegates only)
- Ch'ul be, Sacred Path direct by Humberto Gómez Pérez
- Niranthea - A Portrait Of Multiplicity In Five Movements directed by Marco Donnarumma
- Terra Mater – Mother Land directed by Kantarama Gahigiri
- Ultra Violet Neon Planet directed by Jashan Walton
- Untitled (To Describe You) directed by Tibyan Mahawah Sanoh
- Wisisi Nit Meke directed by Arief Budiman, Bonny Lanny and Harun Rumbarar
Film Library (accessible to delegates only)
- Baye Fall Namanala directed by Adelina Sasnauskaite and Chiara Baima Poma
- Black Rio! Black Power! directed by Emílio Domingos
- Colours Of Sound directed by Cécile Embleton
- Got To Be Free - A Village Drums of Freedom Story directed by Jasmine Stein and Martina Lanfranchi
- Noise Is Serious Shit directed by Hilman Fathoni and Sean Stellfox
- Sound System Sanskriti directed by Roy Dipankar
- Stone Flowers: Songs Of Hope And Defiance directed by James Sandy
- The 9 Lives Of Barbara Dane directed by Maureen Gosling
- The Broadside Hack directed by Crispin Parry
Beyond the screenings, this year we again dissect music & film related themes during our Film Talks. We welcome our longtime collaborator Vincent Moon, who will reflect on his two decades of filming music in various contexts - from rock to rituals. Artist and filmmaker Miguel Buenrostro will gather a series of collaborative artistic projects that reflect on the diasporic horizon of sound in different musical traditions. While our third talk focuses on Communities, Scenes And Sounds On Film from around the world that are the fertile grounds for musical creations, nurturing musicians and scenes and encouraging the birth of new musical styles and sounds.
article posted by:Gaurav Narula, Piranha Arts