NEWS

Music films at Muzika Etnika

The MOFFOM-curated program of world-music films presented in cooperation with the Muzika Etnika exhibition at the Czech Museum of Music opens Wednesday, June 4 with a showing of Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars. This acclaimed documentary, winner of the Audience Choice Award at MOFFOM 2006, tells the story of six refugees from Sierra Leone's brutal civil war who form a band and find redemption through music. The series continues through June 8; admission to the screenings is included in the exhibition ticket.

 

 

Complete schedule:

June 4

19:00 Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars (USA/Sierra Leone/Guinea)

20:30 Dancing Kathmandu (Czech Republic/Nepal)

 

June 5

19:00 Samba! (Brazil/USA)

20:45 Revitalizing Shashmaqam, Court Music of Central Asia (Tajikistan)

21:15 Badakhshan (Tajikistan) 

June 6 

19:00 Nömadak TX (Spain)

20:45 Tengir-too: Mountain Music of Kyrgyzstan (Kyrgyzstan)

21:10 Bali méchanique (USA) 

June 7 

19:00   Laya Project (India/Indonesia)

20:20   Na Kamalei: tanečníci Hula  (USA) 

June 8

19:00 As Old as My Tongue: The Myth and Life of Bi Kidude (UK/Zanzibar)

20:00 Homayun Sakhi: The Art of the Afghan Rubab (USA)

20:35 The Pied Piper of Hutzovina (UK/Ukraine)