Program full / by sections
1,2,3... Standstill
José M. Rodríguez, Clara Saiz, Juan Peralta - Spain – 2009 – 63’
The fans of the group become the starts in Standstill's show. Intensity made into a novel for thirty-somethings, pages lived by the rock group, balloons and a circular stage where the dancing is diluted between musician and follower. We're gonna sing.
Friday 30th / 22:00 / Aribau Club 1 (*)
Tuesday 3rd / 20:00 / Aribau Club 1
(*)Presentation & Q&A with José M. Rodríguez, Clara Saiz & Juan Peralta
100 Pájaros. Los Rodríguez en Buenos Aires. Debut y despedida
Sergio Bellotti - Argentina – 2009 – 70’
Filmed 14 years ago and never broadcast, this passionate revision of Los Rodriguez' 1994 tour finally sees the light. A bubble that traps Andrés Calamaro and Ariel Rot's transatlantic band. Behind the scenes: Maradona and Fito Páez, and many others.
Tuesday 3rd / 22:00 / Aribau Club 1 (*)
Friday 6th / 20:00 / Aribau Club 1
(*)Presentation & Q&A with Sergio Belloti
In-Edit Argentina 2009 Award
Beyond Ipanema
Guto Barra - Brazil & USA – 2009 – 87’
Brazil as a life force of worldwide musical domination. The waves of its influence (Bossanova and Rio Funk, Samba and Tropicalia, Os Mutantes and CSS engulf every imaginable coast from David Byrne to MIA.
Saturday 7th / 22:00 / Aribau Club 1 (*)
Sunday 8th / 16:15 / Rex
(*) Presentation & Q&A with Guto Barra
Charlie Haden. Rambling boy
Reto Caduff - Switzerland – 2009 – 86’
Geeky glasses and a laid-back nature, Haden is the most celebrated jazz bassist. He hooked up with Ornette Coleman in the 60's, formed the Liberation Music Orchestra and today branches out into folk and gospel. Keith Jarrett, Pat Metheny and others play and unwind in elegies.
Friday 30th / 18:30 / Aribau Club 2
Saturday 31st / 20:45 / Aribau Club 2
Evening's civil twilight in empires of tin
Jem Cohen - Austria – 2008 – 100’
Attention: artist dreaming. Re-assembly of a novel by Joseph Roth (The Radetzky March) while Vic Chesnutt, Silver Mt. Zion and Guy Picciotto deconstruct Strauss' homonymous march. Jem Cohen searches for connections and hallucinations in the dusk of the Hapsburg dynasty.
Friday 6th / 22:30 / Aribau Club 2 (*)
Saturday 7th / 18:30 / Aribau Club 2
(*) Presented by Xavi Cervantes
Favela on blast
Leandro HBL & Wesley Pentz (Diplo) - Brazil – 2008 – 81’
Pure subculture, the livin'-it-up power of a dispossessed Rio. Through 60 favelas we meet the heroes of the neighbourhood, MCs, DJs and fans of dance funk or Rio funk, the explosive, contagious and positive rhythm of the shacks. Directed and produced by Diplo, connoisseur extraordinaire.
Saturday 31st / 22:30 / Aribau Club 2 (*)
Monday 2nd / 18:30 / Aribau Club 2
Thursday 5th / 20:00 / Aribau Club 1
(*) Presentented by Dj Coco
Febrero. Cuando la vida es Carnaval
Nacho Sacaluga - Spain – 2009 – 67’
What unites Alejandro Sanz and El Yuyu, witty master of chirigotas, The Cadiz Carnival, this majestic homegrown festival of Coros: and marching-singing bands (legal or "illegal") exudes poetry, street life, humour and overflowing vivacity. A unique phenomenon, at last chronicled and critiqued.
Sunday 1st / 22:30 / Aribau Club 2 (*)
Friday 6th / 18:30 / Aribau Club 2
(*)Presentation & Q&A amb Nacho Sacaluga
Icons amongst us: Jazz in the present tense
Lars Larson, Michael Rivoira, P.J. Vogt - USA – 2009 – 97’
It's alright to (just) look back now. This is the message from tens of talented jazzmen from the last generation (Greg Osby, Bill Frisell, Jason Moran, The Bad Plus, Terence Blanchard and more) who celebrate the jazz of the past here as much as their will to carry it beyond, without submitting to the canon. Marsalis, Hancock and other fathers bless their ideas.
Saturday 31st / 18:30 / Aribau Club 2 (*)
Monday 2nd / 20:30 / Aribau Club 2 (#)
(*) Presented by Sergi Sirvent
(#) Presentation & Q&A with Lars Larson
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Jards Macalé: Um morcego na porta principal
Marco Abujamra & João Pimentel - Brazil – 2008 – 71’
Who is Jards Macalé? Like a Brazilian Forrest Gump, this fascinating composer, arranger, actor and controversial artist lurks in all the relevant corners: with Gal Costa, Veloso, behind Waly Salomâo, always in the shadow, always unheard-of. An addictive biography of an archetypal damned artist.
Tuesday 3rd / 20:30 / Aribau Club 2 (*)
Friday 6th / 16:15 / Rex
(*)Presentation & Q&A with Marco Abujamra
In-Edit Brasil 2009 Award
Johnny Cash at Folsom prison
Bestor Cram - USA – 2008 – 87’
A mythical night in 1968, the Man in Black, bitter king of criminal country, offers his lived-out hymns of redemption and death to the recluses at Folsom. This is the story of that unforgettable penitentiary night, mouth to mouth and bar to bar.
Thursday 5th / 22:00 / Aribau Club 1 (*)
Friday 6th / 18:00 / Aribau Club 1
Sunday 8th / 20:00 / Aribau Club 1
(*)Presentation & Q&A with Bestor Cram
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Johnny Cash's America
Morgan Neville & Robert Gordon - USA – 2008 – 89’
Nobody escapes the influence of Johnny Cash: his music was for all of America. Here characters as diverse as Al Gore, Snoop Dogg, Ozzy Osborne, Dylan and Sheryl Crow (and more!) admire his perception of homeland, family, justice and liberty.
Friday 30th / 20:15 / Rex
Sunday 8th / 18:00 / Aribau Club 1
Keep on running: 50 years of Island Records
Stuart Watts - UK – 2009 – 90’
Few labels have concentrated so many talents and so many styles for so many years. From U2 to Bob Marley, Nick Drake, Aswad and Traffic. This is the story of the coolest and most eclectic label of the 20th Century, but also of its founder Chris Blackwell. And they all come out.
Wedenesday 4th / 22:15 / Rex (*)
Thursday 5th / 18:00 / Aribau Club 1
Saturday 7th / 20:15 / Rex
(*) Presented by Joe Boyd
Led Zeppelin live at the Royal Albert Hall
Peter Whitehead - UK – 1970 – 103’
The epitome of the rock concert, the epitome of the musical film. Just rock and image, without credits, without interviews: Led Zeppelin at their finest, live at the Royal Albert Hall on January 9th, 1970. 13 minute drum solos and pure visual and aural electricity.
Wednesday 4th / 18:15 / Rex
Saturday 7th / 20:00 / Aribau Club 1
Los Blue Splendor
Manuel González Llanos - Chile – 2008 – 76’
43 years tucking itself into glittery blue jackets and throwing itself into rock and roll. This is the story of the #1 group from Valparaiso in the 60's, the blue splendor: its foundation, trajectory, validity and legacy. Young Chilean rockers recover them, while the band recalls life and miracles.
Thursday 5th / 20:30 / Aribau Club 2 (*)
Friday 6th / 16:30 / Aribau Club 2
(*)Presentation & Q&A with Manuel González Llanos
In-Edit Chile 2008 Award
Los chicos de provincias somos así
Orencio Boix - España – 2009 – 79’
Or how to get from the pasacalles to the liberation of rock'n'roll (through ye-yé). From the 60's (Los Rayos, Los Simuns, Los 3 Carino) and the 80's (ORNI, Escoria Oriental, Los Mestizos) until today (Tres Estrellas, Kiev Cuando Nieva). Agro-pop, goth, and even hard rock: the secret history of Huesca.
Wednesday 4th / 20:30 / Aribau Club 2 (*)
Thursday 5th / 18:30 / Aribau Club 2
(*) Presentation & Q&A with Orencio Boix
Madness: The liberty of Norton Folgate
Julien Temple - UK – 2009 – 64’
A spectacle from 2008 that's a love song to London. Norton Folgate (a city area that was independent until 1900) trampolines the wizards of ska-pop to construct a story full of rogues, Victorian rascals and pleasure seekers. Circus, theatre, sublime pop and facing it all, Julien Temple's live camera.
Sunday 1st / 16:15 / Rex
Saturday 7th / 22:00 / Rex (*)
Sunday 8th / 16:00 / Aribau Club 1
(*)Presentation & Q&A with Julien Temple
Marc Bolan: The final word
Mark Tinkler - UK – 2007 – 78’
A small man and a giant body of work. Here you'll find the life and hits of Marc Bolan, an English guy born to be a pop star- From John's Children to T.Rex, at the hands of Gloria Jones and John Peel, we reconstruct the career (and death) of the petite elfin mod.
Friday 30th / 18:15 / Rex
Monday 2nd / 22:00 / Aribau Club 1 (*)
Tuesday 3rd / 18:00 / Aribau Club 1
(*) Presenter tba
Neil Young: Don't be denied
Ben Whalley - UK – 2008 – 60’
While not exhaustive, this is very personal. Herein lie 40 years selected from Neil Young's career as revealed by himself and his nearest and dearest (Stephen Stills, David Crosby). From the well known (Crazy Horse, CSN&Y, Buffalo Springfield) to the surprising (a fan of The Human League?). His particular hits.
Sunday 1st / 16:00 / Aribau Club 1
Monday 2nd / 20:15 / Rex
Wednesday 4th / 20:00 / Aribau Club 1 (*)
(*)Presentation & Q&A with Ben Whalley
Oil City confidential: The Dr. Feelgood story
Julien Temple - UK – 2009 – 106’
A still psychotic but brilliant Wilko Johnson leads us to the geometric guitar sounds of furious R&B through the story of the group that put the roll back into rock'n'roll. From the refineries of Canvey Island to world domination from-the-pub, whipped up in a meteorite of nicotine and Delta blues-punk.
Saturday 7th / 20:45 / Aribau Club 2 (*)
Sunday 8th / 20:30 / Aribau Club 2
(*)Presentation & Q&A with Julien Temple
One fast move or I'm gone: Kerouac's Big Sur
Curt Worden - USA – 2009 – 98’
The story of a novel and an exorcism. In 1960, Jack Kerouac, author of On the Road, decided to distance himself from alcohol and fame and hide in the mountain. Travelling companions and heirs of the feeling (Sam Shepard, Patti Smith, Tom Waits) revisit Big Sur. Jay Farrar (Son Volt) and Benjamin Gibbard (Death Cab for Cutie) play the notes.
Sunday 1st / 20:00 / Aribau Club 1 (*)
Monday 2nd / 20:00 / Aribau Club 1
Wednesday 4th / 20:15 / Rex
(*) Presented by Javier Pérez Andújar
Paul Weller: Into tomorrow
Stuart Watts - UK – 2006 – 89’
The modfather throughout his entire career, from The Jam to The Style Council without forgetting his fruitful solo career. Old friends, family, ex-members and famous fans such as Noel Gallagher have their say while Weller plays hit after hit.
Friday 30th / 18:00 / Aribau Club 1
Saturday 31st / 22:15 / Rex (*)
Sunday 1st / 18:00 / Aribau Club 1
(*) Presented by Kiko Amat
R.E.M. This is not a show
Vincent Moon & Jeremiah - USA – 2009 – 56’
July 2007, 5 nights bolted into the Olympia Theatre in Dublin. An audience of family, friends and intimate fans. songs that were either very new or very old. a testing week with some unprecedented R.E.M, beautifully filmed in an almost palpable black and white.
Friday 30th / 22:15 / Rex (*)
Saturday 31st / 20:15 / Rex
Tuesday 3rd / 18:15 / Rex
(*) Presented by Vincent Moon & Jeremiah
Shadow Play: The making of Anton Corbjin
Josh Whiteman - Australia – 2009 – 77’
He shot famous photos for U2 and REM (and just about everyone else), he directed the world's most celebrated videos, from "Personal Jesus" to "Pride", and he rounded off by directing Control, the biopic of Joy Division. Bono, Stipe, Gahan and more celebrate the artist who best brought them out.
Sunday 1st / 22:15 / Rex (*)
Tuesday 3 / 20:15 / Rex
Saturday 7 / 18:15 / Rex
(*) Presentertba
Soul Power
Jeffrey Levy-Hinte - USA – 2008 – 92’
The apex of Black Power. When we were kings explored the fight between Muhammad Ali and Foreman in 1974, and here Zaire 74, the previous festival is documented. James Brown, Miriam Makeba, B.B. King and more, all black and proud.
Friday 6th / 22:15 / Rex (*)
Saturday 7th / 16:15 / Rex
Sunday 8th / 20:15 / Rex
(*)Presentation & Q&A with Jeffrey Levy-Hinte
Soundtrack for a revolution
Bill Guttentag & Dan Sturman - USA – 2009 – 83’
The black movement for civil rights cemented with songs of brotherhood. Wounding images, moving testimonies and heartfelt renditions of the songs (Wyclef Jean, The Roots...) tell the story of a just struggle.
Monday 2nd / 22:15 / Rex (*)
Thursday 5th / 18:15 / Rex
Friday 6th / 20:15 / Rex
(*)Presentation & Q&A with Bill Guttentag & Dan Sturman
Still Bill
Alex Vlack & Damani Baker - USA – 2009 – 78’
Bill Withers, or the dignity of soul. This is the beautiful story of the last good soulman, who decided to abandon stardom and luxury at the peak of his career to go back to his family and friends. A story of tears, of overcoming, of decency and of spirit. And pure soul.
Saturday 31st / 22:00 / Aribau Club 1 (*)
Saturday 7th / 16:00 / Aribau Club 1
Sunday 8th / 18:15 / Rex
(*)Presentation & Q&A with Damani Baker
Suffering and smiling
Dan Ollman - Nigeria & USA – 2006 – 60’
From father to son. Fighting against the powers that be in Nigeria. Fela Kuti first, Femi taking over. Suffering and laughing, the Kuti have suffered persecution and death, but Femi continues protesting around the Afro beat for a fair Africa.
Sunday1st / 18:30 / Aribau Club 2
Wednesday 4th / 18:00 / Aribau Club 1
Sunny's time now
Antoine Prum - Luxemburg – 2008 – 108’
Revolt! Free Jazz! An avant-garde examination of Sunny Murray, virtuoso liberator of jazz where politics and rhythm are intertwined. Robert Wyatt, Cecil Taylor and others comment admiringly on this intense and fervent destruction of the canon.
Monday 2nd / 22:30 / Aribau Club 2 (*)
Tuesday 3rd / 18:30 / Aribau Club 2
(*)Presentación & Q&A with Antoine Prum, Sunny Murray & Tony Herrigton
TRIMPIN: The sound of invention
Peter Esmonde - USA – 2009 – 79’
Trimpin sounds like modern dance, but it's the name of an artist-musician-inventor-nutter who makes musical sculptures with a hundred guitars and composes symphonies from earthquakes or bats. Without a doubt, the most unusual and fascinating composer on earth.
Friday 30th / 22:30 / Aribau Club 2 (*)
Saturday 31st / 16:30 / Aribau Club 2
(*) Presented by Sergi Jordà
The Fleshtones: Pardon us for living but the graveyard is full
Geoffray Barbier - USA – 2008 – 65’
Nice piece of rumba soul-punk-surf The Fleshtones have put together. The most hardworking, honest and danceable basement rock'n'roll band. The blackest white boys of the garage, captured along the route of 30 years of partying and sweating. And they don't seem to wanna stop.
Friday 30th / 20:30 / Aribau Club 2
Saturday 31st / 18:00 / Aribau Club 1
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The Folk singer: A tale of men, music & America
M. A. Littler - Germany & USA – 2008 – 102’
Real men, true musicians, discuss community, responsibility and emotion in the American south of today. Jon Konrad Wert, musician and naked blues believer, exposes his demons and shame-to-be-a-man with crude folk and genuine words.
Saturday 7th / 23:00 / Aribau Club 2 (*)
Sunday 8th / 16:30 / Aribau Club 2
(*)Presentation & Q&A with M.A. Litter
The Peter Whitehead Pop Promos
Peter Whitehead - UK – 1966 – 75’
Before Spike Jonze, there was Peter Whitehead, one of the first to see the promotional pop clip as an art form. Between 1966-69, his eye captured the "Hey Joe" of Jimi Hendrix, the "We love you" of the Rolling Stones and many others. Vibrant...
Monday 2nd / 18:00 / Aribau Club 1
Saturday 7th / 18:00 / Aribau Club 1
The agony and the ecstasy of Phil Spector
Vikram Jayanti - UK – 2008 – 104’
The great producer of 60's pop, the Midas touch for the Ronettes and Lennon, was accused of the murder of Lana Clarkson. The film mixes history and fascinating conversation with a follicularly mutant Spector, where the hair-raising trial works like the metronome of a unique life.
Saturday 31st / 20:00 / Aribau Club 1 (*)
Tuesday 3rd / 22:15 / Rex (#)
Friday 6th / 18:15 / Rex
(*) Presented by Raúl Fernández
(#) Presentation & Q&A with Vikram Jayanti
The new catalan song
Raúl Hinojosa - Spain – 2009 – 55’
The guys with the girls, the juniors with the seniors. Enric Montefusco (Standstill) and Quico Pi de la Serra (himself) brush and unite in an intergenerational Catalan dialog that debates language, motives, influences, positions and processes.
Tuesday 3rd / 22:30 / Aribau Club 2 (*)
Wednesday 4th / 18:30 / Aribau Club 2
(*)Presentation & Q&A with Raúl Hinojosa
The posters came from the walls
Jeremy Deller & Nicholas Abrahams - UK – 2007 – 73’
Depeche Mode don't appear here, although they're the reason that this film exists. Under the spotlight are the fans, from Brazil to Russia. People whose lives Depeche Mode have changed, and for whom they have represented something more than a mere pop group. Moving, respectful and touching.
Saturday 31st / 16:15 / Rex
Wednesday 4th / 22:30 / Aribau Club 2 (*)
(*) Presented by Ángel Molina
This is Spinal Tap
Rob Reiner - USA – 1984 – 82’
All the jokes about Heavy metal are right here. Admired by fans of the genre and friends of humour, Spinal tap is the famous film about the most theatrical hard rock. Somewhat idiotic bassists, Stonehenge, Amps to 11, lost in the backstage, Smell the glove... A thousand jokes in leggings, and windswept barnets.
Sunday 1st / 18:15 / Rex (*)
Wednesday 4th / 22:00 / Aribau Club 1
(*) Presented by Jordi Meya
Tiempo de leyenda. Un documental sobre el disco de Camarón La Leyenda del Tiempo
José Sánchez-Montes - Spain – 2009 – 70’
It's been thirty years and its influence keeps on. The decisive flamenco record, the total alloy of classical and modern told by Tomatito, Raimundo Amador and other stars, with incredible unseen archives and a sound analysis of its time. Definitive!
Sunday 1st / 20:15 / Rex
Friday 6th / 22:00 / Aribau Club 1
Tonite let's all make love in London
Peter Whitehead - UK – 1967 – 70’
Unmissable documentary about Swinging London. A dream for 60's fans, with performances from Pink Floyd (with Syd Barrett) and Small Faces and words from Michael Caine and David Hockney. Fab!
Saturday 7th / 16:30 / Aribau Club 2
Toteking: Tengo que volver a casa
Patric C.Taladriz - Spain – 2009 – 55’
Toteking loving references (Tote as The Great Lebowski!), we get close to the figure, humour and good naturedness of this talented Sevillian rhymer. Along the way: sneakers, parties, loyal audiences and soul mates.
Thursday 5th / 22:30 / Aribau Club 2 (*)
Friday 6th / 16:00 / Aribau Club 1
(*)Presentation & Q&A with Patric C. Taladriz
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Trip to Asia: The quest for harmony
Thomas Grube - Alemania – 2009 – 109’
Sunday 1st / 16:30 / Aribau Club 2
Sunday 8th / 18:30 / Aribau Club 2
Who killed Nancy?
Alan G. Parker - UK – 2009 – 93’
The case of Sid Vicious-Nancy Spungen is reopened. The film reveals that the dead bassist of the Sex Pistols was a bundle of bad things, but not his girlfriend's assassin. A film that is as much a punk-rock chronicle as it is an addictive documentary of conspiranoia.
Friday 30th / 20:00 / Aribau Club 1
Saturday 31st / 16:00 / Aribau Club 1
Thursday 5th / 22:15 / Rex
Wild combination: A portrait of Arthur Russell
Matt Wolf - USA – 2008 – 70’
Disco, pop, orchestral music, cellos and... silence. The obsessive sorcerer of sound recomposed through echoes of childhood his steady partner, 1970's New Cork, AIDS and resonant perfectionism.
Friday 6th / 20:30 / Aribau Club 2
In-Edit.Beefeater 2008 Award
Woodstock: Now and then
Barbara Kopple - USA – 2009 – 89’
A legend falls, noisily. An essential excavation in the cinders of what was Woodstock, 1969: what really happened, and not what the hippy stories say. Lawsuits, disasters and losses, but also moving community action and spontaneous brotherhood Brilliant.
Saturday 31st / 18:15 / Rex
Sunday 1st / 22:00 / Aribau Club 1 (*)
Monday 2nd / 18:15 / Rex
(*) Presenter tba
Youssou N'Dour: I bring what I love
Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi - USA – 2008 – 102’
The Messenger from Africa, the voice that inspired millions, trapped in the polemic of Egypt (2005), the album that wanted to reveal another Islam and clashed with religious intolerance. A store of faith, of African spirit, of persistence and of bravery.
Sunday 1st / 20:30 / Aribau Club 2
Thursday 5th / 20:15 / Rex
