Music on the screen

14 films
An enormous variety of styles ranging from an opera and biographical musical to unique portraits, poetic images and impressive jigsaw puzzles from salvaged archives. You will see charismatic representatives of ethnic musical genres.

  • Abebe-Butterfly Song

    dir. Rosie Jones
    dok2023

    The music scene of Papua – New Guinea needed a long time to step out of the shade. It was possible thanks to George Telek, an artist singing in native languages and combining Papuan and Western sounds. The film is also a story of his friendship with Australian musician David Bridie, which defies the colonial past.

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  • Are You There? [PL audio descritption] (Jesteś tu?)

    dir. Xawery Deskur
    dok2023

    DJ Edee Dee aka Edward Gil-Deskur, is an iconic figure in Krakow’s club world. Edward was born with congenital glaucoma and will soon completely lose his eyesight. In his adaptation to the new reality, he is assisted by AI, with whom he begins to form an increasingly closer relationship.

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  • Babylonia (Babilonia)

    dir. Duda Gambogi
    dok2024

    It is a hot night in Cuba. During her long-awaited debut on the stage of the biggest drag show in the entire province of Artemisa, Elizabeth de Victória must confront all the difficulties that precede a live performance.

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  • Berchidda Live - A Journey Into Time in Jazz Archive (Berchidda Live – Un Viaggio Nell'Archivio Time In Jazz)

    dir. Gianfranco Cabiddu, Michele Mellara, Alessandro Rossi
    dok2023

    Time in Jazz festival is inherently linked to the place where it has been organized since 1988, i.e. the town of Berchidda in Sardinia. In beautiful natural surroundings one may absorb a variety of music traditions and the film is a portrayal of this atmospheric event and the people who create it.

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  • Blues Run the Game: the Strange Tale of Jackson C. Frank (Blues Run the Game: The Strange Tale of Jackson C. Frank)

    dir. Damien Aimé Dupont
    dok2023

    In 1965, Jackson C. Frank, a folk singer, assisted by Paul Simon, had already recorded his only album, which influenced many American and British folk musicians. Nevertheless, he was unable to defeat his demons. The film shows the artist’s emotional landscape.

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  • Chords (Cuerdas)

    dir. Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren
    fab2022

    Rita has an important meeting with her fellow singers: the women’s choir to which she belongs is in danger of disbanding because they have lost the municipal subsidy with which they used to rent their rehearsal space.

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  • Don Benjamín

    dir. Ivan Zahínos
    dok2024

    An unpretentious and poetic journey through a magical, endangered region of the Amazon rainforest in Bolivia. People living in the jungle are trying to restore the original state of the areas stripped bare of any trees.

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    Awards:Silver Dragon

  • Joana Mallwitz - Momentum

    dir. Günter Atteln
    dok2024

    The eponymous character, who conducts the best European orchestras, says that the most important thing is to have a good team – both in the family and at work. Joana Mallwitz is filmed over the breakthrough period of two years when her son is born and her career considerably speeds up.

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  • Needle (Igła)

    dir. Józef Gross
    dok2024

    A punk story about the Z generation without censorship. Oscar, who lives in Toronto, returns to Krakow after many years. He carries a baggage of difficult life experiences with him and has a plan for the coming future – tattooing.

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  • Omar and Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird

    dir. Nicolas Jack Davies
    dok2023

    This film has the dynamics of progressive rock, the preferred genre of the cult American band Mars Volta for over twenty years. The film edited out of hundreds of hours of archival footage is a painfully honest portrayal of friendship, successes, transformations and failures.

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    Awards:Special Award

  • Ready (Etoimoi)

    dir. Eirini Vianelli
    anim2023

    When distinguished representatives of the country look at you from paintings on the walls, you had better behave decently. Meanwhile, employees of the Greek parliament kill time with meaningless activities and behave like little children. Where are those who made great Greek history?

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  • Resentment (Obraza)

    dir. Gleb Osatinski
    fab2023

    17-year-old Yasha is rebelling against authority, but in 1990's Soviet Ukraine some of the opposing forces are more dangerous than others. When Yasha hits his breaking point, raw impulses propel him to the precipice of irreparable harm.

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  • Stay Homas. The Band That Shouldn't Exist (Stay Homas. La banda que no hauria d’existir)

    dir. Oriol Gispert, Nick Bolger, Ramon Balagué
    dok2024

    The trio from Barcelona helped many to survive the lockdown. The songs referring to the pandemic situation, which were recorded by Stay Homas at their balcony, went viral and brought them popularity all over the world. Eventually, they had to cease to be an online phenomenon only.

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  • Teaches of Peaches

    dir. Philipp Fussenegger, Judy Landkammer
    dok2024

    Peaches, who is a performer, provoker and a sassy lady, does not slow down in the sixth decade of her life. To the contrary, her tour celebrating the 20th anniversary of her album ‘Teaches of Peaches’ was an explosion of creativity. For the filmmakers, it was an opportunity to find out more about this rebellious artist, an icon of feminism and queer culture. Age rated: 18+

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    Awards:Golden Heynal
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