FILM PROGRAM
 
World Music Film Today
Cine Symphony
  Music In Sight
  Theme & Variation
  Korean Music Film Today
  Jecheon Film Music Award Special
  Family Fest
  Music Short On Track
   
 
* Opening Film
 
Young@Heart
United Kingdom  l 2007 l 107min l Documentary  l Stephen Walker
Rock and roll will never die! Billed as¡®pensioners behaving badly¡¯, Young@Heart is a chorus like no other. Aged between 75 and 93, this rowdy bunch based in Northampton and Massachusetts have won sensational reviews wherever they performed all over the world. The film documents the final weeks of their rehearsal for their public performance. The chorus¡¯average age is 81, and many of them must overcome health adversities to participate. At a time when most people have passed away or would be spending their last days in retirement homes, these pensioners are up on stage belting out rock and roll numbers from the likes of OutKast, Jimi Hendrix, Sonic Youth, and Radiohead. A highlight of their show is 93-year-old GI Bride Eileen Hall¡¯s rendition of The Clash¡¯s ¡®Should I Stay or Should I Go?¡¯, a performance that is always guaranteed to bring the house down.
 
 
 

 
* Closing Film
The Visitor
United States  l 2007 l 108min l Feature Drama l Tom McCarthy
When Connecticut college professor Walter Vale visits Manhattan to deliver a paper at a conference at NYU, he returns to the little-used apartment he owns there to discover much to his surprise, Syrian Tarek and Senegalese Zainab there. Conned into renting the apartment, they have been living there for months. Walter¡¯s first impulse is to toss them out, but watching them struggle with their meager belongings in the street, he offers them to stay, and an odd sort of family is born. After his wife passed away, Walter has more or less had become withdrawn from the world. But this soon changes after sharing the apartment with these strangers. Walter becomes enchanted by the sounds Tarek made on his African drum, djembe. Tarek sees that Walter who seemed more than uptight in appearance and attitude was genuinely passionate about his music and invites him into his world. Tarek gives Walter a djembe as a present along with drumming lessons. But Walter is about to get another lesson on politics and globalization when Tarek is arrested and set for deportation.