Films
Section Sound & Vision: Music films with a room for the offbeat and the false notes.
A Century in Sound
A meditative atour of three different, fascinating and distinctive Japanese listening cafés that offer an immersive, musical sanctuary amidst the chaotic streets of Tokyo.
Nicholas Dwyer & Tu Neill / Japan & New Zealand / 2024 / World Premiere
ABBA: Against the Odds
World premiere of the ultimate film about the ultimate pop band. On the 50th anniversary of their iconic urovision victory, this is the untold story of ABBA in the golden years between 1976 and 1980.
James Rogan / United Kingdom / 2024 / World Premiere
Carlos
The life of guitar virtuoso Carlos Santana from his childhood in Mexico to international stardom, according to the 76-year-old legend himself.
Rudy Valdez / United States / 2023
Devo
Meet the cult band of them all in the rockumentary of the year about a band that fused a political vision with being bizarre, nerdy and rock star cool. From the director of ‘American Movie’ and the hit series about the Fyre Festival.
Chris Smith / United States / 2024 / European Premiere
Efterklang: The Makedonium Band
A charming tour of Macedonian folk music and a fascinating insight into the creative process of the Danish band Efterklang.
Andreas Johnsen / Denmark & North Macedonia / 2024 / World Premiere
Eno
Experience Brian Eno's creative process and foresight in a film that changes every time it is shown! Using new technology, director Gary Hustwit has created a phantom portrait of the musical genius that reassembles his life's work.
Gary Hustwit / United Kingdom & United States / 2024 / International Premiere
Free Party
Welcome to a party so wild that the British state had to rewrite the law to ban it, and that the electronic sound waves of the raging Free Party movement of the 1990s still resonate today.
Aaron Trinder / United Kingdom / 2023 / European Premiere
In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon
The legendary singer has finally received the major portrait film he deserves. Oscar winner Alex Gibney unravels Paul Simon's life's work, from his time with Art Garfunkel to solo highlight 'Graceland' to his latest album.
Alex Gibney / United States / 2023
Lil Nas X: Long Live Montero
The story of the icon behind the monster hit 'Old Town Road' and his exhilerating journey as he defies musical boundaries and redefines what it means to be a superstar in the 21st century.
Carlos López Estrada & Zac Manuel / United States / 2023 / International Premiere
Milli Vanilli
From a meteoric career to tabloid tragedy. Get the untold details of the lip-synch scandal of them all in thr stranger-than-fiction account of the pop duo behind the mega-hit 'Girl You Know It's True'.
Luke Korem / United States / 2023
Omar and Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird
Friendship, love and rock n' roll! The lives of the pioneering rock bands At the Drive-In and The Mars Volta, authentically and honestly portrayed on video through a lifetime by the two childhood friends at the front of the stage.
Nicolas Jack Davies / Germany & United Kingdom / 2023 / International Premiere
Peter Doherty: Stranger In My Own Skin
10 years in the turbulent life of the British rock n' roll poet as a singer in The Libertines and Babyshambles, and as a regular in the tabloids. The struggle to quit the drugs is the untold chapter in the story of Pete Doherty - until now.
Katia De Vidas / France & United Kingdom / 2023
Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus
20 compositions, five decades, one performance. With posterity as his only audience, the Japanese star composer strums his own musical testament on the keys in the last performance before his death. Intimate, majestic and minimalistic, captured by the maestro's own son.
Neo Sora / Japan / 2023
Sofina
Live recordings, everyday notes and vocal music intertwine in an audiovisual project where every digital line and musical note are creative expressions of a shared grief.
Albert R. Hildebrand & Tobias Laust Hansen / Denmark / 2024 / World Premiere
Sofina + Altid/Aldrig noget andet
The debut from the group 'A Good Year', consisting of video artist Albert Hildebrand and composer and producer Tobias Laust known from bands like Liss and Goss + A poetic collage film by Lydmor and Sebastian Cordes.
Albert R. Hildebrand, Tobias Laust Hansen, Jenny Rossander & Sebastian Cordes / Denmark
Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)
In his first documentary, music video legend Anton Corbijn tells the wild story of the visionary album cover designers behind Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and many others. The rockumentary of the year!
Anton Corbijn / United Kingdom / 2022 / European Premiere
Teaches of Peaches
Fuck the pain away! 20 years after queer musician Peaches kicked off the new millennium, she's embarking on an anniversary tour - and she's armed with bare breasts, a razor-sharp entourage and a prophetic fuck you to the patriarchy.
Philipp Fussenegger & Judy Landkammer / Germany / 2024 / International Premiere
The Stones & Brian Jones
Genius, sex symbol, lost soul. The director of 'Kurt and Courtney' and 'Marianne and Leonard: Words of Love' unravels the story of the Rolling Stones icon who mysteriously ended his days at the bottom of a swimming pool aged just 27.
Nick Broomfield / United Kingdom / 2023
They Shot The Piano Player
A film noir in colour that brings back the heyday of bossa nova in stunning animations and to a jazzy score, as it tells the story of the mysterious disappearance of one of Brazil's most legendary jazz pianists.
Fernando Trueba & Javier Mariscal / Spain, France, Netherlands, Portugal & Peru / 2023
This is Ballroom
An upbeat tribute to the Brazilian ballroom scene, where LGBTQ+ and non-white people create the creative space they are not allowed in a repressive society.
Juru & Vitã / Brazil / 2024 / World Premiere
Welcome to the Darkness
The party-loving British glam rockers in The Darkness are trying to reclaim stadiums around the world. But not everything goes according to plan in an unpretentious, funny and touching story of brotherhood and rock n' roll.
Simon Emmett / United Kingdom / 2023 / International Premiere