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Rock This Town
April 22 - May 01, 2024
Pau / France
Rock This Town is the international music film festival taking place in the city of Pau and the cinema Le Méliès. Ever since 2007, Rock This Town has been a cinematic pulse in the heart of the south-west of France, near the Pyrenees, an annual festival at the crossroads of world cultures and territories as well as artistic forms (cinema, concerts, film-concerts, exhibitions, literatures) bringing together more than 20 cultural partners from the city of Pau.
This festival proposes a selection of movies (documentaries, fictions, shorts and features) defined by their relationship with music (whether jazz, classical, rock, reggae, punk, experimental, Latino, rap) so that they dialogue and square with it.
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SoundTrack_Cologne 21
July 02 - July 05, 2024
Cologne / Germany
SoundTrack_Cologne is Europe's leading congress for music and sound in film, games and media, and a source of inspiration for the growing landscape of festivals and congresses in Europe. In over 40 round tables, panels, workshops and networking events, SoundTrack_Cologne focuses on current developments in culture, law, marketing and technics of media music and offers business cases and networking events.
In 2024 SoundTrack_Cologne will celebrate its 21th edition.
Save the Date: July 02 - 05, 2024.
SEE THE SOUND 2024
July 03 - July 07, 2024
Cologne / Germany
SEE THE SOUND
is dedicated to all forms of motion pictures, that visualise music and sound.
Since its inception, SoundTrack_Cologne grew as a festival and conference program into Europes leading platform for music and sound in film, games, TV and multimedia in general. With SEE THE SOUND SoundTrack_Cologne offers a platform to outstanding films about music to be presented on the big screen.
SEE THE SOUND AWARD
Furthermore, the prize for the Best Music Documentary will be awarded at SEE THE SOUND for the twelveth time. The prize winner will receive 2,500 euros.
Past events
SEEYOUSOUND
February 23 - March 03, 2024
Turin / Italy
SEEYOUSOUND™ International Music Film Festival is the unmistakable blend of music and film that celebrates in 7 days of programming the union of stories and images of characters and currents, in the background or protagonists of moments or whole lives.
The film selection is divided between fiction and documentary features, shorts and video clips in the competitive LongPlay Doc, LongPlay Feature, 7Inch and Soundies sections. The exhibitions Rising Sound – Music is the weapon, a glimpse into resistant musics, a sounding board and embodiment of the desire for freedom, and Into the Groove, a diverse selection of titles shot through with a pop vein, are the flagships of the program.
The 10th edition of Seeyousound will take place at the Cinema Massimo MNC in Turin from February 23 to March 3, 2024.
Norient Festival
January 10 - January 14, 2024
Bern / Switzerland
The program was developed by an international curatorial program team under the artistic direction of the multidisciplinary artist Emma Nzioka from Nairobi.
Musical Écran
November 12 - November 19, 2023
Bordeaux / France
The Musical Écran film festival is a unique event in France, focusing mainly on music documentaries, which takes place each year in Bordeaux. During a week, the spotlight is on music docs and over 35 films from all over the world are screened and discussions between the audience and the directors are organized.
2023 marks the 9th anniversary of the Musical Écran festival which will take place from November 12th to 19th.
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Soundwatch
November 08 - November 21, 2023
Berlin / Germany
In November 2023, the seventh edition of Soundwatch Music Film Festival will take place. This year’s festival program features films in which music is not merely background noise, but in many ways reflects their repective times and even intervenes:
Protest singer Joan Baez, anarchist punks Crass, jazz pioneers Max Roach and Alexander von Schlippenbach, media pranksters Negativland, punks in the GDR, Industrial and EBM in the Yugoslav-era queer scene in Ljubljana, the ReCoder and Decoder film projects’ respective electronic media critiques from current and 1980s perspectives spoke truth to power or attempted to make music politically, through practice which questioned power relations. Or post-punk bands like The Birthday Party and Rema-Rema pushed the aesthetic envelopes and inspired myriad subsequent musicians.
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SoundTrack_Zurich
September 29 - October 01, 2023
Zurich / Switzerland
SoundTrack_Zurich 04 is the three-day professional event on film and media music held as part of the Zurich Film Festival. The conference offers a series of panels, networking sessions, case studies and workshops that address current issues in today's film and media music scene. Another important element is the networking of film composers with the international guests of the Zurich Film Festival.
SoundTrack_Zurich is organised by Forum Filmmusik, curated by Michael P. Aust (SoundTrack_Cologne) in collaboration with Zurich Film Festival (ZFF), Tonhalle-Gesellschaft Zürich, ZHdK (Zurich University of Arts), SoundTrack_Cologne and SONART (Musikschaffende Schweiz).
New strong appearance: Film music at the Zurich Film Festival
For many years, the Zurich Film Festival (ZFF) has been inviting important international film composers like Hans Zimmer (Pirates of the Carribean, Lion King), Gabriel Yared (English Patient, Bruno Manser) and has had composers like Cliff Martinez (Drive, Solaris), Anne Dudley (The Full Monty), Don Davis (Matrix) preside the Jury of the International Film Music Competition. The annual film music concert at the Tonhalle Zurich has been one of the highlights of the festival. The Zurich Film Festival’s new artistic director Christian Jungen aims to open up even more to film music.
SoundTrack_Zurich (STZ) is closely linked to the ZFF and its guests as well as to the International Film Music Competition. With IMMSANE (International Media Music & Sound Arts | Network in Education) ZHdK hosts a platform for an international exchange about university education in film and media music.
In this sense, SoundTrack_Zurich acts as an umbrella brand for all film music activities that take place during the Zurich Film Festival.
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SoundTrack_Cologne
June 20 - June 23, 2023
Cologne / Germany
SoundTrack_Cologne is Europe's leading congress for music and sound in film, games and media, and a source of inspiration for the growing landscape of festivals and congresses in Europe. In over 40 round tables, panels, workshops and networking events, SoundTrack_Cologne focuses on current developments in culture, law, marketing and technics of media music and offers business cases and networking events.
In 2023 SoundTrack_Cologne will celebrate its 20th edition.
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