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| VIDEO PREMIERE: DEVOTIONAL MUSIC FROM THE NAGORE SESSIONS |
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 Nagor Sessions (India)
"The Saint"
Nagore Sessions features three singers from Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu. Our viewers may remember them from their performance in the beautiful musical travelogue "Laya Project" shown on Link TV. The vocals are by Abdul Ghani, Ajah Maideen and Saburmaideen Babha Sabeer of the local Nagore dargah. A dargah is a sufi shrine, usually built over the grave of a saint, and this song is indeed a Sufi chant. "Laya Project" was created by EarthSync, a Chennai based production company and recording studio which has been encouraging traditional artists to expand and develop their music. Nagore Sessions is one of their first efforts with a specific group, and the video reflects Earthsync's unerring visual artistry. |
| TUESDAY 10/13 IS A MUSIC FEST! |
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 Sometimes our schedules, like the stars, align in wonderful ways. This Tuesday besides our usual music blocks we've got three great music documentaries all playing on the same day! "Lay Down Your Hearts" is the story of the legacy of Hukwe Zawose, a Tanzanian musician who rose to fame, and created a musical dynasty that is struggling to overcome his death. "Stories of Sevdah" examines the extraordinarily soulful Balkan idiom that still helps to heal old war wounds. And Karoo Kitar Blues takes us to a dessicated region of South Africa where old popular Afrikaans songs have mutated into an unusually funky repertoire in the hands of the inhabitants. |
| CINEMONDO: HORRIBLY, POLITICALLY INCORRECT "AALTRA |
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 Aaltra (France) Directors: Gustave Kevern, Benoît Delépine Official Selection — 2005 Tribeca Film Festival;
Winner — FIPRESCI Prize, 2004 London Film Festival
Winner — Best Belgian Actor, 2004 Plateau Awards
This one-of-a-kind gem has left critics trying to trace its roots in everything from Jacques Tati for its hilarious visual wit to Bad Santa for making comic protagonists out of an ill-tempered pair who make everyone else miserable. Gus (Gustave Kervern) is a hot-under-the-white-collar manager and his neighbor Ben (Benoît Delépine) is a slovenly, lazy farmer. Their mutual loathing leads to a brawl in the midst of which they are crushed under the mechanism of Ben's tractor, and left paralyzed from the waist down for the rest of their lives. Condemned to each other's company, as well as to wheelchairs, they set off on an odyssey of revenge, determined to get reparations from the manufacturer - Finnish-based “Aaltra” - of the equipment they blame for their fate. The film's intransigent wit and mordant humor are close cousins to the work of a famed Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki who turns in a cameo appearance in the final sequence. Co-directors and co-stars Delépine and Kervern met while working at Canal Plus on a television show called Grolandsat. After collaborating on several sketches, the two began work on this absurdist road movie which became a surprise hot ticket on the international festival circuit. — Peter Scarlet
“…one of the funniest black comedies in some time.” — Time Out New York
Airdates
Wednesday, October 14th 05:00 pm (PT) 08:00 (ET)
Thursday, October 15th 12:00 pm (PT) 03:00 pm (ET) |
| IN MEMORIUM, MERCEDES SOSA |
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