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Our Song voirfilms
Our Song
Focusing on the bonding between three female (an African American female, a half African American half Latino American female, and a Latino American female) high school members of Brooklyn's "Jackie Robinson Steppers Marching Band" and the choices the girls face once their school closes down because of the need for asbestos removal. This film is about a host of topics, not least of which is the hard-work involved in maintaining.
Our Song
“When words fail, music speaks” – Hans Christian Andersen. Our Song demonstrates the power of music to transport us to a moment in time, and in contrast feel the loneliness and pain of silence..
La partition perdue de Noël
Melody Jones est une star de la country qui vit à Nashville. Noël approche et elle a enregistré une de ses premières compositions de jeunesse, un chant de Noël intitulé Heart of Christmas. La chanson est immédiatement un énorme succès. Mais Connie Black, une star sur le déclin qui fut son mentor, l’accuse de l’avoir plagiée et menace de la traduire en justice. Pour retrouver son ancienne partition, qui prouvera son innocence, Melody rentre fêter Noël dans sa famille, à Madison. Elle n’y était pas revenue depuis la mort de son père. Elle retrouve sa mère, sa sœur, sa nièce et… son premier amour, qui est toujours épris d'elle, sans vouloir l’avouer..
True Colors: LGBTQ+ Our Stories, Our Songs
A TV special that celebrates the stories and music that make us who we are. Offering a unique look at the history of the LGBTQ+ community in the United States, the special shares real-life stories of hope, resilience and triumph from people across the country, artistically represented through thematically relevant music. Exploring the personal journeys of remarkable individuals, the program connects these heartfelt stories with the history of the LGBTQ+ movement..
Song for Our People
Song For Our People is an inspiring new documentary about a group of a professional musicians and artists who come together one day in a Brooklyn recording studio to create a powerful new anthem to honor the perseverance of their African-American ancestors, and to energize the on-going fight for a more just American society..
The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
The 400-year-old story of the black church in America, the changing nature of worship spaces, and the men and women who shepherded them from the pulpit, the choir loft, and church pews..
To Sing Our Own Song
In 1983, Jose W. Diokno, lawyer and two-term Senator, narrated this 50-minute documentary on the Marcos dictatorship. The program was produced and aired by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), and provided a critical look of the regime at a time when media and opposition in the Philippines were violently silenced..
Disney's Sing-Along Songs: Be Our Guest
Now the whole family can take part in the musical enchantment of Beauty and the Beast - and share the magical musical moments from several of Disney's most popular and best-loved films..
Can they hear our songs?
Can they hear our songs? is a short experimental film by Mehdi Jahan, inspired by the sufi oral storytelling tradition of his ancestral village in Assam. A tradition that is slowing fading away from the cultural landscape of Assam..
Song for Our Aquarium
Our consciousness massages our flesh and bone hoping it will stay glued to us if we treat it well. We know the importance of our physical body to our being, but there are also those invisible, external elements that sustain life that we know nothing about and others that we recognize, but are in the process of destroying..
Poi E: The Story of Our Song
Written and directed by Tearepa Kahi (Mt Zion) and starring Maaka Pohatu (The Modern Maori Quartet, Two Little Boys) the film tells the story of musician Dalvanius Prime and the origin of the song “Poi E”, a ground-breaking fusion of 1980s pop and traditional Māori music. “Poi E”, composed by Dalvanius and Ngoingoi Pēwhairangi and performed by the Patea Māori Club, remains the only song in Te Reo Māori to reach No 1 in the charts, over 30 years since its 1984 release..
Pani Paata Poratam (Songs of our Soil)
Uyyala songs are an agricultural tradition rooted in the political expression of women in Telangana. Through this oral tradition, the film traces the histories of resistance and memories of disillusionment experienced by women across political assertions in the region. Through looking at women’s participation in the Telangana People’s Movement, and their demands of justice from the contemporary Mallana Sagar irrigation project, the film attempts to complicate the relationship between memory, history, and cultural production..
Voices of Our Time: Dawn Upshaw: A Contemporary Songs Selection
Soprano Dawn Upshaw, a multiple Grammy winner and recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, performs a variety of songs in this spectacular concert filmed live at the Théâtre Musical de Paris Châtelet in 2000. Selections include "Mirabai Songs" by John Harbison, "The Sleeper" by George Crumb, "In Just Spring" by Laura Elise Schwendinger, "Cabaret Songs" by William Bolcom and several songs set to Carl Sandburg poems by Ruth Crawford..
Our songs were ready for all wars to come
The film explores the critical stance of ‘folklore’ as a source of knowledge and its possible connection to alternative social and representational models in Palestine. Images of women performing draw connections between latent stories of water wells and communal rituals associated with disappearance, mourning and death. The only narration in the film is a song, which is sung by Palestinian singer Maya Khaldi. Its lyrics are a collage of different folk tales..
Sacred Songs - The Secrets of Our Hearts
Award-winning British choir Tenebrae, under the direction of Nigel Short, is one of the world’s leading vocal ensembles, renowned for its passion and precision. In this performance Tenebrae once again breaks new ground in a programme of music for Easter, with all 20 of its singers filmed and recorded separately as they isolate themselves in their own homes. Under the direction of Nigel Short conducting via video link, Tenebrae sings a concert for Easter, including Gregorio Allegri's stunning Miserere, at a time when the world has never needed the medicine of music more. Tenebrae's repertoire for this specially filmed performance includes the following: JS Bach – Wenn ich einmal soll scheiden Lobo – Versa est in luctum Allegri – Miserere Purcell/Croft – Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts Parry – My soul, there is a country JS Bach – Ach Herr, lass dein lieb Engelein.
Our Song
A song like a miracle falls in front of 20-year-old Joseph who has nothing. One day while they were having a happy time singing 'that song' like fate, a man with everything, even the owner of the song, appears in front of Joseph..
