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A group of friends in a Tel Aviv suburb get together to watch Universong, a Eurovision-like television song contest. They gather to watch and are depressed by the lifelessness of the Israeli entry, a parody of many recent offerings, a flashy, grating song about "amour." Realizing that Anat is distraught over the crisis in her marriage, they decide to compose a song to cheer her up. As a lark, they enters their cellphone video of it in next year's contest, and it becomes Israel's entry.
Pianist Sullivan Fortner appears in a trio at the TSF Jazz Chantilly Festival accompanied by double bassist Tyrone Allen and drummer Kayvon Gordon. Together they introduce us to Southern Nights, a musical ode to New Orleans.
Q-POP follows 23-year-old Quechua artist and viral sensation Lenin Tamayo, creator of “Q-Pop,” a genre that fuses K-Pop with Quechua, an Indigenous tongue that has endured for centuries but faces an uncertain future among younger generations. As his music gains national attention in Peru and begins attracting fans around the world, Lenin journeys from a working-class neighborhood outside Lima to the streets of Seoul, chasing a dream that once seemed impossible. Along the way, he takes on a mission larger than his own success: using pop music to help preserve and revitalize the language of his ancestors.
Hania is a young journalist who suddenly discovers that she is more connected with dancing than she could ever imagine ...
A comedy set behind the scenes at Cinecittà studios in Rome during the war, focusing on a famous, demanding tenor and his love interest.
A young trumpeter rises through the jazz world and finds love.
Emmy-winning writer, producer, director, and actor of 'Family Guy', Seth MacFarlane takes to the stage to wow audiences in the style of crooners like Dean Martin & Sinatra. Backed by a thirty-nine piece, all-star orchestra conducted by Joel McNeely, MacFarlane is also joined by special guest Sara Bareilles. The duo meticulously turn back time with Great American Songbook classics of the 1940's, 50's and 60's, all featured on McFarlane's 2011 album, 'Music Is Better Than Words'. This concert was recorded at Club Nokia in Los Angeles, California on March 26th, 2011. Setlist : The Night They Invented Champagne * It's Anybody's Spring * Anytime, Anywhere * Music Is Better Than Words * Two Sleepy People * You're The Cream In My Coffee * Something Good * Love Won't Let You Get Away * It's Easy To Remember * You And I * The Sadder But Wiser Girl
The Last Tango takes place hours before Violeta's performance with Carlos Gardel; replaced by her friend Lucecita, she locks up her ex-partner Julio to disguise herself as him and be able to dance with Lucecita in front of the singer.
Boisterous teen Judy Bellaire is expelled from her all-female boarding school for convincing her fellow school chorus members to sing a classical piece with a modern swing beat. She returns to her dysfunctional home, dejected, but, with the encouragement of her family's cook, Judy decides to follow her dream and audition for a Broadway musical.
The critically acclaimed all-woman Japanese acting revue Takarazuka brings Rurouni Kenshin to life, creating a new twist on a globally loved story.
Five directors pass their unfinished films in a circle, seeing only the last three seconds. This experimental anthology captures the surprising results and the filmmakers' first reactions in a video call that becomes part of the movie.
This documentary delves into the lives, on and off stage, of four young classical musicians who give up the prospect of solo careers to form The Dover Quartet. We are with them from their meeting as students at the Curtis Institute of Music, through their breakthrough win at a prestigious string quartet competition, and when they find themselves touring internationally as their careers take off.
Soviet geologist Viktor Klimenko with his guide and assistant, Yakut Nikol, fall into the trap of enterprising businessmen. They are going to conserve all the air in order to sell it monopoly, profit and dictate their will to the rest of the world.
The centennial of Frederic Chopin’s death was celebrated in 1949. The International Chopin Year was held under the auspice of UNESCO. Tadeusz Makarczyński’s film records renditions of Chopin’s mazurkas by entrants of the 4th Chopin International Piano Competition held in Warsaw in 1949. You can hear the performances of representatives from America and different countries in Europe: Halina Czerny-Stefańska and Bella Davidovich of the Soviet Union, the ex aequo winners of the 1st Prize; Carlos Rivero of Mexico, Yevgeniy Malinin of the Soviet Union, and Mireille Auxietre of France. Mazurkas are the essence of Chopin’s music and a symbol of Polishness; they are pieces which integrate young pianists from all over the world into one big “Chopin family”.
This film is a portrait of unique cultural space for Spirits, Gods and People. While permanent theatres are commonly built in most cosmopolitan modern cities, Hong Kong preserves a unique theatrical architecture, a Chinese tradition that has lasted more than a century - Bamboo Theatre.
Hridoyer Kotha (Bengali: হৃদয়ের কথা) is a Bangladeshi film released on 18 October 2006 directed by S.A. Haque Alik. Riaz produced the movie, the first time in his career. Notable songs in the film include Bhalobasbo Basbore Bondhu (Habib Wahid) and Jay Din Jay Ekaki (S.I. Tutul).
An intimate and moving meditation on the late musician and artist Kurt Cobain, based on more than 25 hours of previously unheard audiotaped interviews conducted with Cobain by noted music journalist Michael Azerrad for his book "Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana." In the film, Kurt Cobain recounts his own life - from his childhood and adolescence to his days of musical discovery and later dealings with explosive fame - and offers often piercing insights into his life, music, and times. The conversations heard in the film have never before been made public, and they reveal a highly personal portrait of an artist much discussed but not particularly well understood.
An experimental dance film from Mehdi Norowzian, later the basis for a Guinness ad campaign.