A high school teacher, struggling to keep up with today's youth and estranged from his only son, receives the news about a terrible accident that left his son in a coma. Wanting to know more about his son's life, he finds out that he's been working as a producer for a new underground idol group who are now left without a guiding hand.
Robbie Williams presents his new album “Heavy Entertainment Show” during a showcase at the Swiss German radio SRF studios in Zurich on November 15, 2016.
In 1982, the Arpoador Beach, in Rio de Janeiro, received the first "incarnation" of Circo Voador, a venue for artists of diverse aspects showing their art to the public. Months later, Circo landed at Lapa, the city's most bohemian neighborhood. Today, more than three decades later, the venue has become a cultural reference in the country. This documentary is directed by Tainá Menezes and has testimonials from artists such as Gilberto Gil, Lobão, Evandro Mesquita and more than 50 personalities that were part of the history of Circo Voador.
This vivid film of Wagner's romatic opera succeeds in conveying what has famously been called "the wind that blows out at you whenever you open the score", including Daland's boat anchoring against the Sandwike cliffs, the red-sailed phantom ship, and the ghost crew rising from the dead. "Scenes that recall classic horror films... Brilliantly successful" (Nürnberger Nachrichten), "Captures the works' essence" (Süddeutsche Zeitung). With a superb cast; conducted by Wagner authority Wolfgang Sawallisch.
In the 1990s, due to an enormous amount of independent bands in activity, the great public present at the shows, and of course, in its geography, in the city of Santos earned the nickname “California Brazilian ”. Approved by one, recovered by others, the fact is that the nickname captured and the importance of the local scene in this history and undeniable. In a decade, an island - yes, Santos is on an island - exported names like Garage Fuzz, Safari Hamburguers, White Frogs and much, much more. And it matters in real time as the main trends of American hardcore and punk, reaching the point of such styles playing the city's young music in the mid-1990s, all of this coupled with a lot of surfing and skateboarding, of course. This doc deals only with this period and phenomenon, showing Brazil as stories and peculiarities of the local scene under the vision and direction of directors Rodiney Assunção and Wladimyr Cruz (“Woodstock - More than a store”, “A new wave of ").
The music festival “Made in America” that takes place in Philadelphia, one of the cradles of black American music, for two days, had on September 3, 2016, the diva Rihanna as the main attraction; with a repertoire based on the “Anti World Tour”, it included new costumes and stunning choreography.
Discovered by Wu-Tang Clan's RZA, Hell Razah had a promising career and gold records before he was tragically struck down with a brain aneurysm. Risen traces his journey to recovery - both spiritually and physically - back to the mic.
She appeared when Spain was waking up from a long post-war period and crying with melodramas starring children, a child prodigy unlike any other; a girl who, in time, would become a symbol of freedom and a total artist. Actress, singer, friend, lover. This is the story of Ana Belén.
A playful 3-minute vignette by American choreographer and filmmaker Celia Rowlson-Hall, Taxi! turns a maddening cab ride into a whirlwind of color and movement. This is the first in a series of shorts that Rowlson-Hall plans to make with her favorite dancers all over New York City – here with Or Schraiber spinning out to music by Mas Ysa.
A love story between a man, a woman and his violin through the past and the present. It's a common story about life, death, passion and transmission. A cinematographic essay at the border of fiction and documentary.
Brothers Eli and Nick are genius cellists, but as they prepare to audition for the opportunity of a lifetime, they inadvertently steal a bag of money from a hitman. They are abruptly thrust into a world of crime, blackmailed to act as performing decoys during the thet of an eight-million-dollar painting. Suddenly, the brothers are no longer just fighting for a place in a prestigious music academy, but for their lives, too.
In this age of technology, music is being pushed to new boundaries and rapidly changing unlike ever before. Going Places takes viewers on a journey to experience music from the minds of the artists who are at the fore front of this evolution. The film examines the current state of contemporary dance and electronic music, the culture and discusses the undiscovered territories of where it's headed.