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Director
Dearbhla Glynn
Credits
Producer: Vanessa Gildea. Sound: Hugh Fox.
Category
DocumentaryMusic
Living out a dream, Irish musicians Paddy Keenan and Liam Ó’Maonlaí travel across Mali on a musical roadtrip, soaking themselves in local traditions en route to the famous Festival au désert. On a slow-paced journey the pair take the opportunity to listen to and learn from numerous Malian musicians, with both settled and nomadic communities revealing rich musical traditions stretching back hundreds of years. Music, indeed, is seen as a repository for the history of tribes and communities, with songs recording how the land has changed over the centuries. Using interviews with the travelling pair in tandem with scenes of performance and travel, director Dearbhla Glynn focuses on how music can cross borders and break barriers of language and history. The concluding scenes of Keenan and Ó’Maonlaí fusing their traditional Irish music with the sounds and songs performed at Festival au desert form the definitive statement of this goal.
93 minutes, Ireland/Mali, 2008, Colour
ANORA 15:30
BIRD 11:10
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL – IFI FAMILY: SAUVAGES 11.00
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: AGATHA AND THE LIMITLESS READINGS 14.10
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: BEING MARIA 15.10
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: JIM’S STORY 17.30
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: MARCELLO MIO 19.50
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: SCÉNARIOS + EXPOSÉ DU FILM ANNONCE DU FILM ‘SCÉNARIO’ 12.10
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: SOULEYMANE’S STORY 13.00
HOUSEWIFE OF THE YEAR 13:40, 18:20
SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE 16:20, 18:30
SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D’ETAT 20:10
THE ROOM NEXT DOOR 20:40
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