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* Music In Sight
 
‘Music in Sight’is a section where the audience can enjoy music documentaries introducing the various sides of musicians, life and culture. A number of works reflecting the passionate attempts to capture music of diverse genres such as Tango, Hip Hop, Reggae, and musicians ranging from Sigur Rós, Chet Baker, Anita O’Day, to Bob Marley as objectively as possible are showcased in this section.

 
Africa Unite
United States  l 2008 l 91min l Documentary  l Stephanie Black
Africa Unite is a must for all lovers reggae and especially Bob Marley, but not only for them. The documentary looks at the massive and controversial celebration of Marley’s 60th birthday held in February 2005 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. About 300,000 admirers, musicians and activists gathered from all over the world to listen to the sons and wife of the reggae hero, who died more than 20 years ago. The Pan-Africa awareness that he achieved with his music and activism are still very topical today. The music comes first and much of the film looks at the unique 12-hour concert from 2005, compellingly visualized.
 
 
 
Anita O’Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer
United States  l 2007 l 91min l Documentary  l Robbie Cavolina, Ian McCrudden
Her story is a tale of survival, alcoholism, rape, abortions, 20-year heroin addiction, arrests and jail time. Anita overcame it all to become a true jazz icon. Includes many highlights from her incomparable career spanning 7 decades. Footage of the making of her new recording, and rare, never before seen vintage footage of Anita - Including Gene Krupa, Roy Eldridge, Stan Kenton, Louis Armstrong and others. An intimate portrait of the maverick jazz vocalist Anita O’Day.
 
 
 
Bob Marley: Exodus 77
United Kingdom  l 2007 l 93min l Documentary  l Anthony Wall
Bob Marley: Exodus 77 demonstrates ground-breaking innovation in the use of film archive. Drawing on news and television archive from 1977 juxtaposed with the music and words of Bob Marley this film magically evokes the past. The sometimes surreal relationship between images and sound allows us to both see the archive images and hear Marley’s familiar music as if for the first time. Setting major news events in the context of a strong and delicately rendered atmosphere of the time, this film is the fruit of exemplary work in film research and skillful use of archive.
 
 
 
Café de Los Maestros
United States , Brazil, UK, Argentina l 2008 l 90min l Documentary  l Miguel Kohan
Oscar-winning composer and musician Gustavo Santaollala celebrates the maestros of tango, as they reunite for a gala performance in Buenos Aires’famous Teatro Colon. Tango belongs to Argentina, and to Buenos Aires in particular; this infectious, vibrant film introduces us to the exceptional musicians who are its living legends. Many have been sharing their music with impassioned crowds for decades and some for a jaw-dropping eighty years.
 
 
 
A Different Way: Tango with Rodolfo Mederos
Spain , Germany, Uruguay l 2007 l 56min l Documentary  l Gabriel Szollosy
Rodolfo Mederos is a bandoneonist, a composer with an enormous oeuvre, one of the authorities on the tango and an inspiration to new generations of musicians. Born in Buenos Aires and still living there, the city has always been his muse. The sounds of his bandoneon are like musical images of life, like a journey through the corners and times of his native city. Rodolfo is now 65 and at the prime of his career. His struggle for the tango the lonely campaign of a man and his bandoneon continues.
 
 
 
Hair: Let the Sun Shine In
France , US l 2007 l 55min l Documentary  l Pola Rapaport
The genesis, life and renaissance of Hair, the most revolutionary musical of its time: a poetic and explosive condensation of the spirit of the 60’s. The film is full of the music of Hair, with new and classic performances. From the creative team, there are several other arresting characters in this documentary whose work remains forever associated with Hair. Actors Keith Carradine, Melba Moore and Ben Vereen, filmmaker Milos Forman, Tom O’ Horgan, author Jim Rado, composer Galt MacDermot.
 
 
 
Heima
Iceland  l 2007 l 97min l Documentary  l Dean DeBlois
Heima is Sigur Rós’first ever film, filmed over two weeks last summer when the band undertook a series of free, unannounced concerts in Iceland. they hauled 40-plus people round 15 locations to the furthest flung corners of their homeland for their debut venture into live film, to create something inspirational. Heima was directed by Dean DeBlois, a long-time fan of the band and director of the Oscar-nominated animated feature Lilo & Stitch, using an Icelandic crew.
 
 
 
I Love Hip Hop in Morocco
Morocco , US l 2007 l 80min l Documentary  l Joshua Asen, Jennifer Needleman
This story begins with a group of Moroccan Hip Hop artists who share a single dream: to rock a professional concert for a hometown crowd. Unfortunately, resistance is strong in their society and resources scarce. They appeal to the American Embassy for funding and begin the journey that will lead to the‘ I Love Hip Hop in Morocco’festival. This film reflects the thoughts and dreams of the true future of the Arab world. These are not the images portrayed by the media; these are the real people. And their views on America, Islam, and the world in general, might surprise a few people around the globe.
 
 
 
Joaquin Sabina 19 Days & 500 Nights
Netherlands  l 2008 l 86min l Documentary  l Ramón Gieling
For about two decades now the poet/singer Joaquin Sabina has been an icon and a benchmark for over twenty million people in Spain and South America. The presidents of all South-American countries want to be photographed with him, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Fidel Castro, Pedro Almodovar and ex football player Diego Maradona are among his fans. Sabina is controversial; he is left-wing, he is a fanatical aficionado of bullfighting, and yet he unites left and right with the impact of his lyrics and songs.
 
 
 
Let’s Get Lost
United States  l 1989 l 120min l Documentary  l Bruce Weber
Let’s Get Lost is a 1989 American documentary film about the turbulent life and career of jazz trumpeter Chet Baker written and directed by Bruce Weber. A group of Baker fans, ranging from ex-associates to ex-wives and children, talk about the man. Weber’s film traces the man’s career from the 1950s, when he was in his prime, playing with jazz greats like Charlie Parker and Gerry Mulligan, to the 1980s, when he had become a skid row junkie unable to get a decent gig.
 
 
 
Made in Jamaica
France , US l 2006 l 110min l Documentary  l Jérome Laperrousaz
Made in Jamaica is a powerful portrait of the leaders of the reggae music movement, and how Reggae has become a worldwide phenomenon. It is the story of how a small island nation of only three million people took their pain and misery and turned those emotions into songs that resonate around the world. From their native ghetto to international fame,Made in Jamaica is the story of the artists who represent the Jamaican Dream.
 
 
 
The Red Elvis
Germany  l 2007 l 90min l Documentary  l Leopold Grün
On the 17th of June 1986 a man is dragged out of a lake in East Berlin. He turns out to be the US American singer and actor Dean Reed, a highly mysterious legend of global pop culture during Cold War times. Reed becomes the ultimate superstar of the Eastern Bloc and South America. He acts in 18 movies, records 13 albums and performs in more than 32 countries. He devotes himself to the promotion of Socialism. What made the GDR authorities decide to declare the obvious suicide of this US American entertainer an“ accident”?