WOMEX 11 Guide

© Juergen Behrens© Miguel Ángel González© Youri Lenquette© Daniel BarScreenings A – Z f i l m sGlobal Local – Forays into aNew Music Scene in CologneOriginal Title: global lokal – Streifzüge durch eineneue Musikszene Kölns | WDR TelevisionThursday 17:00 – 18:00CinemaGenre Documentary | Production Company WDR (Germany)Producer Lothar Mattner | TV Director Martina Pfaff | Camera JuergenBehrens | Editor Baerbel Kierdorf | Author Martina Pfaff | Source Video/Audio DigiBeta/Stereo | Recorded Germany, 2011 | Duration 58’ 24”Quite unexpectedly, a very varied music sceneflourishes hidden under the surface in Cologne, awayfrom established cultural institutions. It combines themusical traditions of its players with current globalmusic trends into a lively mix. This is developed,rehearsed and performed in often improvised spaces,in niches, sometimes hidden away. So the bands’rehearsal rooms, cellars, car parks and other strangeunderground places also provide the sets for MartinaPfaff’s film. The groups’ styles range from SouthAmerican hip-hop to Persian song and frombalalaika-electrobeats to ragas from Afghanistan.Featuring Alpcologne, Chupacabras, East Affair,Ensemble FisFüz, taiga8, Duo Ymaya, Daud Khan,Maryam Akhondy, Schäl Sick Brass Band.Good Singing HurtsOriginal Title: El canto bueno dueleNTR (Dutch Broadcasting Company)Flamenco Biënnale NederlandThursday 12:00 – 12:55CinemaGenre Documentary | Production Companies NTR (Dutch BroadcastingCompany), Flamenco Biënnale Nederland (The Netherlands)Co-Production Company Martijn van Beenen Filmproducties(The Netherlands) | Producer Taco Lindekamp | TV Directors Martijnvan Beenen, Ernestina van de Noort | Camera Martijn van BeenenEditor Edon Rizvanolli | Source Video/Audio HD/StereoRecorded Spain, 2010 | Duration 55’Martijn van Beenen and Ernestina van de Noorttravelled to Andalusia in search of the roots offlamenco. They met three generations of guitarists:Manuel Morao, Moraíto Chico and Diego del Morao.The Morao Gypsy dynasty has put an indelible markon the flamenco style from Jerez de la Frontera, one ofthe most prominent breeding grounds of flamenco.It emerged on the land around Jerez on the largefarms where Gypsies worked as day labourers. MaríaBala, aged 76, sister of the great singer Manuel SotoSordera and one of the last keepers of the old cantejondo, demonstrates how the primitive flamencosinging of the past sounded.GriotWeitblick MediaThursday 15:15 – 16:45CinemaGenre Documentary | Production Company Weitblick Media (USA)Co-Production Company Two Dollars and A Dream (USA) | ProducerVolker Goetze | Associated Producer Sam Pollard | TV Director VolkerGoetze | Camera Sanne Kurz | Editor Victor Kanefsky | SuperDrawJoshue Ott | Author Leslie Mulkey | Source Video/Audio HD/StereoRecorded Senegal, USA, France, 2010 | Duration 80’ 14”By tradition, griots are the living repositories of WestAfrica’s oral epics – histories that are crucial for thepreservation of West African social structures. Griot, adocumentary by Volker Goetze, uncovers the beautyof West Africa’s traditional past and discovers thatsome revolutionary changes may be afoot – changesthat could alter the cultural landscape forever.My Sweet CanarySher Film and Music ProductionsFriday 10:30 – 12:00CinemaGenre Documentary | Production Company Sher Film and MusicProductions (Israel) | Co-Production Companies ARTE G.E.I.E. (France),IBA Israeli Broadcasting Authority (Israel), ERT Hellenic BroadcastingCorporation (Greece) | Associated Production Company CinephilDistribution and Coproductions (Israel) | Producer Roy SherExecutive Producers Philippa Kowarsky, Elpida Markianidou, Mor AssafTV Director Roy Sher | Camera Daniel Bar | Editor Avishay JohnAuthor Roy Sher | Source Video/Audio HD/Stereo| Recorded Israel,Turkey, Greece, 2011 | Duration 89’ 40”Roza Eskenazi sang the way she lived, with passion,fire and love. This is the story of three young musiciansfrom Greece, Turkey, and Israel, who embark on anexciting musical journey, to tell the story of Greece’sbest-known and best-loved rebetiko singer for thefirst time on film. It’s a journey that will take themfrom Istanbul to Thessaloniki and to Athens, followingthe musical trail she left behind. Most of all, it’s ajourney into a world that has largely vanished, butwhose sounds continue to echo throughout theMediterranean Basin.Screenings A – Z f i l m s166167