The Sounds Of Silence

A man lost his headphone in the forest...

The documentary starts with a diva of a tragic family history related to a history of migration. The rare archival footage reanimates her history reverberating with the current world crisis. Sound of Nomad: Koryo Arirang is a testimonial – a witness to injustice and tragedy, but it is also a declaration of survival – a survival that is not static but transformative – not brittle but fluid. The trains that displace, the deserts that separate form one harsh horizon – a historical limit – but within that limit, against it and across it are people, are a culture, not escaping but flourishing unofficially, with the affective majesty of a melody, a rhythm, an Arirang

Painter Zdzisław Beksiński, his wife Zofia and their son Tomasz, a well-known radio journalist and translator, were a typical and unconventional family, both at the same time. One of the father’s obsessions was filming himself and his family members. Using archival footage only, shot primarily by Zdzisław, as well many other materials, which have not been presented anywhere so far, the film tells a tragic story of the Beksińskis that has never ceased to fascinate Polish filmmakers.

Ji-hye the outcast and Hye-seong the newcomer chase after a molester.

From 26th April to 16th July 2004 Marillion were joined on their Marbles World Tour by THE boom boom BOYS. Marbles on the Road shows you the polished live show after 3 months of touring - but Colours and Sound takes you behind the scenes to show you how it all works in the first Marillion documentary in over a decade. From the Marbles album campaign, to the album's release and the subsequent tour, follow the band and crew on the road across Europe featuring interviews with the band, staff, touring crew, plus producer Dave Meegan and graphic designer Carl Glover. The 2 DVDs also contain over 6 hours of extra material, including featurettes going into the full story of Marbles - from the music and technology, individual songs explained by members of the band to the artwork. Also included are a band audio commentary, crew diaries and hidden extras.

A reporter and a detective investigate a homicide case on the beach. Witnessing many horrible happenings, they find out that the murderer is not human, but is a ghost.

The 5 and 10 street crossing, it's boiling-up cars, stories, nights and days, connect the four corners of Tijuana. It is in this intersection where the road trip to Tijuana Nortec's Sounds starts, which leads us to penetrate a tremendously alive city, with special flavor of a well seasoned music. Here, the Nortec encounter with the Agua Caliente band, formed by fellows from Michoacan, Sinaloa and Tijuana, whom hit the metals with urban fruition, appears to take place in the solar plexus of Tijuana. The Nortec sound is presented as a faithful and happy reflection of what is real in the social and musical fabric. Members of the Agua Caliente band teach neighborhood children about the breaths, strings, percussions, singing and dancing. In Tijuana the educational, cultural and artistic projects start from a collective essence, the true secret of the border city.

Bardhi, an orphan boy, goes to the city to work in the house of a rich man, where he learns how to play the violin.

A badly recorded story that we don't really know how to fix. Be careful, the rest of you, with the mistakes, because then the critics will eat you like piranhas.

In the 1990s, Chinese composer and educator Bao Yuankai began composing Western-style symphonic pieces rooted in traditional folk music. One of his acclaimed pieces is Sketches of Taiwan, which Bao was inspired to write after falling in love with Taiwan’s people and culture. Tsui Yung-Hui follows as he retraces his musical journey, decades-long love affair with Taiwanese culture and how he came up with brilliant, groundbreaking work that artfully bridges East and West.

Maria da Luz waits for her husband who got lost somewhere in Angola during the war. With no news, she finds herself surrounded by families that, like her, desperately long for some kind of hope regarding their loved ones fighting abroad. She takes the matter in her hands and starts tape recording loving messages from each mother, wife and other family members. Carrying the tapes, she travels to Angola and personally delivers these messages to each and every soldier in a personal quest right in the middle of a country in war.

Min-seok is contacted by his ex-girlfriend who broke up with him 5 years ago but she stands him up. Jong-beom quits doing music to make money by tutoring math. Ji-yul drops out of a band and begins making his own, new kind of music.

Ray, a teenager from Reunion, wants to join his friends’ Léa and Jonathan’s metal band. But for that, he needs an actual drum. His father, a sugar cane farmer, offers him a solution.

This collaboration between Roeg and Adrian Utley of Portishead was filmed as part of the BBC’s Sound On Film series

An experimental short about the relationship between music and color.

On the way through a world of sounds and noise – with Manfred Eicher, the oustanding discoverer and mediator of contemporary music and founder of the music label ECM. On this journey we are meeting musicians and composers, but also people and places which are connected with him and with each other. We are encountering stories, landscapes, cities, disputes and hugs, tranquillity, hectic pace, work, self-doubt, joy, passion.

A ride-sharing motorcycle rider picks up a young woman who has been having the same recurring dream as him. Later, they try to find each other again, using lucid dreams as wayfinding tools, but the universe has other plans.

Motivated by family memories, a filmmaker returns to the land of his mother to reflect on his identity and deep cultural heritage.