MILES AHEAD | OTRFF5 > Out of Competition

In the midst of a dazzling and prolific career at the forefront of modern jazz innovation, Miles Davis virtually disappears from public view for a period of five years in the late 1970s. Alone and holed up in his home, he is beset by chronic pain from a deteriorating hip, his musical voice stifled and numbed by drugs and pain medications, his mind haunted by unsettling ghosts from the past. “MILES AHEAD is not just about the music. It’s about what we all face at one time or another in our lives; questions about who we really are, what we have to say and how will we say it. How will we ultimately be defined and who gets to say so?”

MILES AHEAD. City Premiere @ Detour Cinema – Rome

OTRFF 2017 City Premiere – English o.v. with Italian subtitles. In the midst of a dazzling and prolific career at the forefront of modern jazz innovation, Miles Davis virtually disappears from public view for a period of five years in the late 1970s. Alone and holed up in his home, he is beset by chronic pain from a deteriorating hip, his musical voice stifled and numbed by drugs and pain medications, his mind haunted by unsettling ghosts from the past. “MILES AHEAD is not just about the music. It’s about what we all face at one time or another in our lives; questions about who we really are, what we have to say and how will we say it. How will we ultimately be defined and who gets to say so?”

MILES AHEAD. City Premiere @ Detour Cinema – Rome

OTRFF 2017 City Premiere – English o.v. with Italian subtitles. In the midst of a dazzling and prolific career at the forefront of modern jazz innovation, Miles Davis virtually disappears from public view for a period of five years in the late 1970s. Alone and holed up in his home, he is beset by chronic pain from a deteriorating hip, his musical voice stifled and numbed by drugs and pain medications, his mind haunted by unsettling ghosts from the past. “MILES AHEAD is not just about the music. It’s about what we all face at one time or another in our lives; questions about who we really are, what we have to say and how will we say it. How will we ultimately be defined and who gets to say so?”

LIBERATION DAY > A North Korean Rock Tour

Under the loving but firm guidance of an old fan turned director and cultural diplomat, and to the surprise of a whole world, the ex-Yugoslavian cult band Laibach becomes the first rock group ever to perform in the fortress state of North Korea. Confronting strict ideology and cultural differences, the band struggles to get their songs through the needle’s eye of censorship before they can be unleashed on an audience never before exposed to alternative rock’n’roll. Meanwhile, propaganda loudspeakers are being set up at the border between the two Koreas and a countdown to war is announced. The hills are alive…with the sound of music.

LIBERATION DAY > A North Korean Rock Tour

Under the loving but firm guidance of an old fan turned director and cultural diplomat, and to the surprise of a whole world, the ex-Yugoslavian cult band Laibach becomes the first rock group ever to perform in the fortress state of North Korea. Confronting strict ideology and cultural differences, the band struggles to get their songs through the needle’s eye of censorship before they can be unleashed on an audience never before exposed to alternative rock’n’roll. Meanwhile, propaganda loudspeakers are being set up at the border between the two Koreas and a countdown to war is announced. The hills are alive…with the sound of music.

LIBERATION DAY > A North Korean Rock Tour

Under the loving but firm guidance of an old fan turned director and cultural diplomat, and to the surprise of a whole world, the ex-Yugoslavian cult band Laibach becomes the first rock group ever to perform in the fortress state of North Korea. Confronting strict ideology and cultural differences, the band struggles to get their songs through the needle’s eye of censorship before they can be unleashed on an audience never before exposed to alternative rock’n’roll. Meanwhile, propaganda loudspeakers are being set up at the border between the two Koreas and a countdown to war is announced. The hills are alive…with the sound of music.

RE:LEGALIZED

Banda Bassotti is an Italian ska-punk-Oi! band formed in 1987 in Rome. Their songs are generally political in nature, focusing on radical-left issues. Many are about Ireland and Latin America, as well. The band was inspired by The Clash and The Specials. The band was very politically active from the very beginning, attending protests and sympathizing with anti-Fascist movements in Italy. Their name derives from the Italian version of the Disney characters The Beagle Boys.

MAVIS! > Doc musicale sulla leggendaria Mavis Staples

Primo documentario sulla leggendaria Mavis Staples, musa ispiratrice del giovane Bob Dylan, che con il gruppo The Staple Singers, formato dal padre, dalle sue sorelle e dal fratello, si è imposta come icona della musica gospel e soul e dei diritti civili per gli afroamericani con Martin Luther King. Dai canti di libertà degli anni 60, ai successi degli anni 70 fino ad oggi, Mavis è rimasta sempre fedele alle sue radici. Potenti esibizioni live, rare immagini d’archivio, conversazioni con amici e coetanei – tra cui Bob Dylan, Prince, Bonnie Raitt, Levon Helm, Jeff Tweedy, Chuck D – raccontano le lotte, i successi e le storie intime di una donna che, giunta ai 75 anni, è ancora attiva e vitale, con una nuova generazione di fan. E il suo messaggio di amore e di uguaglianza, oggi più che mai, è ancora necessario.

MAVIS! > Rassegna Sorelle

Primo documentario sulla leggendaria Mavis Staples, musa ispiratrice del giovane Bob Dylan, che con il gruppo The Staple Singers, formato dal padre, dalle sue sorelle e dal fratello, si è imposta come icona della musica gospel e soul e dei diritti civili per gli afroamericani con Martin Luther King. Dai canti di libertà degli anni 60, ai successi degli anni 70 fino alle collaborazioni con artisti come Prince, Wilco e Jeff Tweedy, Mavis è rimasta sempre fedele alle sue radici. Potenti esibizioni live, rare immagini d’archivio, conversazioni con amici e coetanei – tra cui Bob Dylan, Prince, Bonnie Raitt, Levon Helm, Jeff Tweedy, Chuck D – raccontano le lotte, i successi e le storie intime di una donna che, giunta ai 75 anni, è ancora attiva e vitale, con una nuova generazione di fan. E il suo messaggio di amore e di uguaglianza, oggi più che mai, è ancora necessario.