Piano

The world’s most talented young pianists compete in the International Chopin Piano Competition, held every five years in Warsaw, Poland. A rare behind the scenes look at the triumphant highs and crushing lows of competition, Pianoforte is both a testament to the remarkable power of music and an intimate coming-of-age portrait.

Moments before his comeback performance, a concert pianist who suffers from stage fright discovers a note written on his music sheet.

Pianomania takes the audience on a humorous journey through the secret world of sound and accompanies Stefan Knüpfer in his extraordinary work with the greatest pianists in the world. To select the instrument that corresponds to the vision of the virtuoso, according it to his desire and accompany him until he goes on stage, Stefan Knüpfer has developed nerves of steel, a boundless passion and above ability to translate words into sounds.

A symphonic concert spectacle featuring rock maestro Ben Folds with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, combining the power of orchestral grandeur with the intimacy of close contact with the musicians. Audience participation peaks as Folds achieves the extraordinary feat of inducing the crowd to sing a choral refrain in three-part harmony. Interwoven with Folds’ personal narratives of the inspirations for his songs, the film transforms enthralling live performance into a unique portal revealing the creativity of the song writing process.

The 16-year-old Tanya Canareykina decided to drastically change her life. For starters she fell in love with a pilot who played the trumpet and had sad, dreaming eyes. Because of him, she stopped seeing Misha whom she’d known since early childhood. She did like Misha, but he wasn’t romantic at all…

Akio became the president of a mid-sized manufacturing company at a young age. His wife, Michiko, got married as a virgin and has been devoted to her husband ever since. He is beautiful and chaste, and uses his professional piano skills to teach piano lessons. For Akio, she was all about his wife. But should such a wife be prevented from experiencing another man for the rest of her life? If my wife is embraced by another man and she loves me even more than that, wouldn't that be true marital love? That's what I secretly started thinking. Akio brought a camera into his bedroom and began filming Michiko naked. Michiko resisted at first, but she gradually began to open her thighs. And I started to want stronger stimulation...

Pictures from the history of the piano and about the manufacture of pianos.

The pianist Carla Ruaro and her team embarked on a 40 days expedition which involved hoisting a piano onto a boat and traversing the Brazilian Amazon. In collaboration with local composers, the aim of this independent project was to take contemporary Amazonian music to remote riverside communities and an instrument they've never seen before. Through the acquisition and transportation of the instrument to the workshops and musical presentations for the communities along the river margins, the project also strengthens the bonds with hold together the riverside communities, an appreciation of the value of communities and artists.

Pianeres de Rio is a group of pianists that lives in the Tigre Delta, where there are no cultural spaces that have pianos. Upon receiving the donation of two pianos, they move them on the deck of a ship and perform a floating concert for the island community. Upon disembarking, they intend to take one of the instruments through a walkway to the Itekoa cultural center, located in the middle of a huge grassland.

Queer couple Molly and Rebecca have the “purrfect” family: wife, wife, and cat. Until one stormy night, when their bubble of domesticity is punctured by their cat-child’s piano taking on a life of its own.

Two sisters living on a peach farm in Koori town, Fukushima Prefecture,are opposites. Haruka Miyamoto feels less beautiful than her sister Akiba Miyamoto and hates being compared to her. She finds comfort in playing a piano in a barn. A year after the Great East Japan Earthquake, she decides she wants to be a pianist. Akiba, for her part, moved to Tokyo to attend college. When she moves back to Koori, Haruka is unsettled and memories connected to the disaster she has tried to forget resurface.

In order to shorten the completion period of a new work area, the director promises that he will organize a grand concert of famous opera singers at the opening of the new hall. There is an unexpected problem - there is no grand piano. The brigadier sends one of his workers to look for the instrument in the town. He finds himself in a very mysterious new world. After a series of comic situations, he manages to find the grand piano. The grand piano is in the production hall. The order of the day is completed, but is that enough?

The story of an exile man who came from Russia. He is the last descended of his family.

The author's musical and humorous program of the film director Yuri Mamin and composer Alexey Zalivalov.

Director — and piano player — Clint Eastwood explores his life-long passion for piano blues, using a treasure trove of rare historical footage in addition to interviews and performances by such living legends as Pinetop Perkins and Jay McShann, as well as Dave Brubeck and Marcia Ball.