International world music conference WOMEX has announced the 2020 Film Program, featuring a curated selection of 21 documentaries.
This year’s films reflect on themes and relevant questions arising at this time. Topics range from the representation of Africa, female empowerment, inclusivity & diversity, the Black lives matter movement, grassroots community actions, ecology and spirituality. The program includes new releases, preview screenings and premieres.
For the digital edition of WOMEX 2020, the complete selection of films will be available online via streaming on the virtualWOMEX platform October 15 – 25, 2020 accessible to all WOMEX 2020 digital participants worldwide.
A retrospective of filmmaker Jeremy Marre’s films Konkombe, Roots Rock Reggae, Rhythm of Resistance and Salsa from his award-winning series Beats of the Heart is also available to all WOMEX 2020 digital participants as bonus content from September 24 to October 8, 2020.
Here is the complete list of films in the WOMEX 20 Film Program (in alphabetical order)
- 240BPM++ directed by Bagas Oktariyan Ananta (Indonesia, 2019)
- A Sonic Pulse directed by Dororthy Allen-Pickard & Antoine Marinot (UK, 2019)
- Berlin Bamako Allstars directed by Markus Schmidt (Germany, 2020)
- Birth of Afrobeat directed by Opiyo Okeyo (USA, 2019)
- Breaking Barriers: The Casteless Collective directed by Maja Meiners (Germany/India, 2019)
- Breaking the Circle directed by Tobias Nathan (Brazil, 2019)
- Contradict directed by Peter Guyer & Thomas Burkhalter (Switzerland, 2020)
- Dark City Beneath the Beat directed by Tedra “TT The Artist” Wilson (USA, 2019)
- Fly Bird Fly: The Hungarian Dance House Story directed by Simon Broughton (Hungary, 2020)
- Khamsin directed by Grégoire Couvert & Grégoire Orio (France/ Lebanon, 2019)
- Kinshasa Beta Mbonda directed by Marie-Françoise Plissart (Belgium, 2019)
- Lisbon Beats directed by Rita Maia & Vasco Viana (Portugal, 2019)
- Naja directed by Jan Beddegenoodts (Belgium, 2019)
- Rave and Resistance: The Birth of Club Culture in 90s Johannesburg directed by Zandile Tisani (South Africa, 2019)
- River City Drumbeat directed by Anne Flatté & Marlon Johnson (USA, 2019)
- Sama’ Abdulhadi directed by Jan Beddegenoodts (Belgium, 2019)
- Sounds of Tehran directed by Aleksandra Bilic & Victoria Fiore (UK, 2019)
- Taxi Waves directed by Mike Calandra Achode & Tommaso Cassinis (Italy, 2019)
- Uproar directed by Moe Najati (UK, 2020)
- When You Listen directed by Sergi Cameron (Bolivia/Spain, 2019)
- Wild Honey directed by Ava Porter & Farhad Akhmetov (Russia/USA, 2019)
The WOMEX Film Program provides a platform for the film industry to reach new markets while exploring additional distribution and production channels. The program also creates an immersive experience for bookers, curators, label managers and publishers, among others to discover music, artists, and cross-cultural collaborations, while reflecting on alternative programming opportunities.
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