Carlos Saura, the Spanish director of such classics as Flamenco, Tango and Blood Wedding, mounts a dazzling showcase for the leading contemporary performers of traditional Argentinian music and dance.
Films — by Genre
Music
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Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words
Director Thorsten Schütte’s doco splices together performance and interview footage of the ever-articulate rock star (and talk-show guest) Frank Zappa to recount the story of his defiantly non-conformist musical journey.
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Gimme Danger
Jim Jarmusch pays tribute to seminal proto-punk champs the Stooges and their wiry frontman Iggy Pop in this tremendously entertaining rock doco, charting their rise and premature demise through to their late-career revival.
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Miss Sharon Jones!
Academy Award-winning documentary maker Barbara Kopple delivers definitive proof, from show-stopping testimony in a small South Carolina church to Manhattan’s Beacon Theatre, that nobody raises the roof like Sharon Jones.
![The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble](/assets/resized/sm/upload/k1/hy/ve/65/Kayhan_Kalhor_of_Silk_Road_Ensemble_and_Aynur_Dog-an_in_the_Untitled_YO-YO_MA_Project%20%C2%A9%20The%20Silk%20Road%20Project,%20Inc%20KEY-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=05e363c89a)
The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble
On a quest to uncover Leonard Bernstein’s ‘universal language of music’, renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma travels the old ‘Silk Road’ with virtuoso musicians from diverse instrumental traditions to collaborate on rousing new musical explorations.
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On an Unknown Beach
Three distinct ‘explorers’ – a marine scientist, an improvised sound artist and an underground poet – form the nexus of this unique, visually arresting documentary from New Zealand filmmakers Adam Luxton and Summer Agnew.
![Poi E: The Story of Our Song](/assets/resized/sm/upload/0y/x4/t7/ep/0F9A7085crop-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=fe0ea1b3e6)
Poi E: The Story of Our Song
NZIFF 2016 opens with the World Premiere screenings of the Kiwi feel-good movie of the year: Tearepa Kahi’s richly researched celebration of Dalvanius Prime and the many rivers that flowed into the making of ‘Poi E’.
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Wide Open Sky
In this charming doco, gifted teacher and musician, Michelle Leonard, travels to under-resourced outback NSW auditioning children then schooling the chosen 130 to perform in the annual Moorambilla Voices choir.