With humor, avant-garde spirit, and eloquence, this documentary reviews the fascinating life of the prolific French com…
In this musical documentary, Allan Miller, the Oscar-winning director, takes us on a journey through the musical evolut…
Through technology and various present-day experiences, this fascinating educational documentary revisits the relevance…
The final installment of the Accentus Music trilogy focuses on the political edges that traversed the world of academic…
The bars on a famous street in Downtown Memphis, Tennessee, host a competition for blues musicians, the renowned The In…
This documentary makes visible the life of Branko Črnac Tusta, a puck-rock icon who became an activist for labor rights…
The second part of the Accentus Music trilogy aims to make visible the brilliant young Russian composers of the early 2…
Bittersweet testimonies of music students are heard while, in front of our eyes, handmade animations try to evoke their…
This first installment of the Accentus Music trilogy explains how music and the great composers were forever changed by…
This film follows Arvo Pärt, the most acclaimed contemporary composer, in the staging of one of his compositions in col…
"Die Thomaner" is one of the most prestigious youth choirs in the world. This documentary follows these promising talen…
This is a jazz documentary like no other. Preserved by the Library of Congress, this vintage film documents the unforge…
"Ebram" was an Iranian guitarist and composer who, after dying in suspicious circumstances, became a myth and an inspir…
This beautiful documentary takes us close to Lanny Gordin, a prolific guitarist who worked with great musicians such as…
This short film is the endearing portrait of Roed Roza, a South American migrant in Milan, Italy. Stripped of his land …
To stand up against discrimination, a group of gay men gather in downtown Seoul to sing in South Korea's only amateur g…
After a past as a drug dealer and drug user, "Plusmacher", a young German rapper, navigates life with what keeps him go…
When a child dies in a remote Afro-descendant Colombian village, two artisans must make a traditional drum for the fune…
This posthumous portrait follows the trail of Uruguayan composer Alfredo Zitarrosa. Banished by a bloody dictatorship, …
Nina, the director of the film, returns to her small rural village in Potosi, Bolivia. Around her, myths, rituals and s…
Featuring icons such as Ernestine "Tiny" Davis, Anna Mae Winburn and Pauline Brady, this short film portrays the women …
Jammings recorded on home videos, old photographs and music with the texture of vinyl records. Yes, this is the exquisi…
In a remote Arctic village in northern Norway, an indigenous rapper tries to make a living with his music. But, will he…
Through interviews, re-enactments and documentation of live events, this documentary reflects on the evolution of the l…
This musical documentary discovers the origin and contemporary presence of music from Argentina and Uruguay. Starring L…
What happens when a traditional musician and a heavy-metal rocker come together to create something unique? In this doc…
Irreverent, iconoclastic and beautifully free. Linn da Quebrada, a black and transsexual artist, displays all her truth…
Psychedelic, strident, etheric. This is how Lima emerges in this portrait of the Peruvian capital through a kaleidoscop…
Through the lives of two Pakistani men, one dedicated to the spiritual life and the other a defender of an ancient musi…
In this documentary short we accompany the musicians of the Unterbiberger Hofmusik, a band that mixes traditional Bavar…
With a grainy and visceral look, this documentary follows the irreverent Jay Wade, a steamfitter in New York who has a …
Interspersing footages of the present and the past of Finland, this experimental short film uses various editing techni…
Three prodigious Caribbean pianists located in Havana, New York and Las Canarias, Spain, make a tribute to Ernesto Lecu…
Sometimes frantic, sometimes thoughtful, this documentary, as educational as it is entertaining, is a journey through t…
A legendary icon of folk music, a singer who was the source of inspiration for Bob Dylan, this essay-documentary is a p…
Premiered at the prestigious IDFA, this documentary follows the Swedish rapper Silvana over several years through her w…
This beautiful documentary portrays a small ethnic community in Udmurtia, Russia, and its unique singing, a precious ar…
A group of Yodelers in the Swiss Alps must face unprecedented fame, and an impending presentation in Shanghai becomes a…
With discretion and subtlety, this film documents in a school in Portugal the experience of the Generación Orchestra, a…
This peaceful and light-hearted film shows us how life in old age flows in present-day Cuba through three elderly music…
How could Beethoven compose his best pieces after his deafness? This documentary is a thorough investigation into the e…
Full of humor and freshness, this film is a road movie across Finland that follows a group of Argentines who come to di…
Through the educational experience of a school in a popular neighborhood in Seville, Spain, this documentary shows the …
In this intimate documentary, a young film student faces a doubt, whether to continue in her profession or devote herse…
This award-winning documentary follows the anarchistic punk band Pussy Riot in its struggle against president Putin’s c…
Pawel dedicates his life to finding the ideal sound hidden in everyday objects: wires, old toys, screws. This is a shor…
After his sudden death, in this documentary the famous Bolivian rapper Abraham Bojórquez (Ukamau y Ké) comes back to li…
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