1st creole Music Film Fest

Friday 11.11.2016 2:00 PM | Hall, Club

Admission: More info coming soon

Organizer: Werkstatt der Kulturen

Production

1st creole Music film Fest

The first edition of the creole Music Film Fest, led by the director and film critic Hakim El-Hachoumi, is entitled “From Morocco to Afghanistan”. The decision to focus on this region takes into account the intensified asylum migration to Berlin and seeks to appeal to new Berliners as “cultural consumers”, as well as responding to the generally growing interest in the cultural and political developments in the countries in this region.

The goal of this new, interdisciplinary festival that spans one weekend, is to create space for trans-cultural experiences and discourse for old and new Berliners through music and film. It also seeks to attract attention to the upcoming 6th creole music competition in 2017 which features musicians from countries in “From Morocco to Afghanistan” who are new to Berlin.

The film selection presents an exciting spectrum of cultural-historical relevance and political explosiveness. It ranges from documentary films about the history of a Moroccan Gnawa band (Transes), the biography of the legendary and world famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum (Dananir) and the journey of a music student through Kurdistan who is looking for new musicians for his band (Road through Kurdistan), to the feature film about young, independent musicians in conservative Iran (No one knows about Persian Cats). To close the festival we will screen Fairuz: We loved each other so much.

Details about the films coming soon!

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ProgrammE

(provisional)

Friday, 11.11.2016

7 pm  Opening and screening of the film Trances El Hal | Hall

9 pm  Concert: Berlin Oriental Group presented by World Wide Music | Club

Saturday, 12.11.2016

5 pm Welcome and screening of the film Road through Kurdistan | Hall

7 pm Film No one knows about Persian Cats | Hall

Sunday, 13.11.2016

2 pm Discussion with Nasser Kilada & Hakim El-Hachoumi | Hall

2:30 pm Film Dananir | Hall

4 pm  Oud performance by Nasser Kilada | Hall

5 pm Closing night film: Fairuz: We loved each other so much | Hall

During the film festival the creole film can be viewed in the foyer (1st floor) and in the café. 

creole - Global Music Contest

The creole Music Contest researches and presents bands that represent the unmistakable musical diversity of Germany, and brings the new musical developments that originate from migration and fusion live on stage! creole offers the professional global/world/fusion music scene in both Berlin as well as throughout Germany a unique platform for exchange, networking and marketing.

To shorten the waiting time between the creole music competitions and to present global sounds and their significance in the context of transculturality and migration between the competition years, the first creole Music Film Fest is being held in 2016. And while Berlin does indeed boast a large variety of film festivals, it has until now lacked a festival devoted exclusively to music films. Thus the WERKSTATT DER KULTUREN’s creole Music Film Fest closes a gap in Berlin’s cultural landscape.

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