For this year’s ¡Globalquerque! World Music and Culture Celebration, an accompanying film festival at the Guild Cinema will feature a diverse lineup of programs from around the world. Highlights include films with ¡Globalquerque! performer Oliver Mtukudzi, a handful of local premieres, Changing Times with Catherine Deneuve and Gerard Depardieu and much more.

 

 

Schedule follows. Fri., Sep. 15, Sat., Sep. 16

A Voice From Heaven: Nusrat Fateh Ali Kahn

2:30p, 6:40pA Voice From Heaven (2001) offers a look at and listen to one of this century’s most beautiful voices.

 

Sumatran Folk Cinema with Festival in the Desert
4:30p, 8:40p
A “collage documentary” of images and sounds from the heart and soul of Sumatran culture. Witness classic Dangdut rock music, street and country scenes, raw TV excerpts and night markets
Sun, Sep. 17

 

Genghis Blues
2p, 7:30p
The amazing true story of  San Francisco blues singer, Paul Pena, whose fascination with Tuvan throat singing led him to learn the technique entirely on his own. ¡Globalquerque! is screening Ghengis Blues, a Pena favorite in tribute to the accomplished singer, who died last year.

 

Night Weeding
5p
Compulsion films and performances based on fictions by Stephen Ausherman
$7 advance, $8 door
Mon., Sep. 18, Tue., Sep. 19

 

Neria
3:30p, 7p
Based on events in director Godwin Mawuru’s own life, Neria ruefully illustrates deliberate perversion of traditional customs for the sake of personal greed. Neria, beautifully played by Jesesi Mungoshi, together with her husband Patrick, has built a solid, comfortable life in the city. But, when Patrick is tragically killed, Neria finds herself caught in the clutches of her husband’s family. An impressive feature debut from Zimbabwe’s Mawuru, Neria is a fascinating portrait of a society in transition.

Shanda
5:30p, 8:30p
The exuberant, life-affirming music of Oliver “Tuku” Mtukudzi flows through this fascinating documentary portrait of a man, his times and his music.
Wed., Sep. 20

Changing Times
3:15p, 7p
Re-teaming French icons Catherine Deneuve and Gerard Depardieu, Changing Times is a complex and dolorous look at the life of Cecile (Deneuve), a French expatriate living in the changing city of Tangiers.

 

Do You Remember Dolly Bell?
5p, 8:45p
This 1981 film by legendary Bosnian director Emir Kusturica follows the fortunes of a young man (Slavko Stimac), who is enthralled by the life that flashes before his eyes in the local cinema.
Thu, Sep. 21
4:30p, 7:15p

 

Baaba Maal: A Voice for Africa
Senegal’s shining star and the voice of his people in a country with an embarrassment of musical riches. Fusing traditional African music with elements of pop and reggae, Baaba Maal’s signature sound led the globe-sweeping wave now known as Afro-pop.

 

Phi Ta Khon: Ghosts of Isan
5:45p, 8:30p
Described as “The Mardi Gras from Hell” and “Thai Halloween,” Phi Ta Khon is a ghost festival that takes place every year in the Isan province of Northern Thailand. With colorful masks, Molam music, magnificent costumes and phallic icons of all sizes, Phi Ta Khon is a mind-blowing and obscure tradition hidden in the interior of the Indochine peninsula.

 

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