Kalush Orchestra, or How We Stopped Worrying and Won Eurovision During the War (2022)

Dewey Finn -Jack Black- es un guitarrista con delirios de grandeza que es expulsado de su banda. Desesperado por encontrar un trabajo ante su falta de dinero, suplanta la identidad de un profesor sustituto para dar clase en una escuela privada a los pequeños alumnos pre-adolescentes de 5o grado a los que intentará enseñarles el "rock & roll de alto voltaje". Además entre sus alumnos está Yuki, un guitarrista prodigio de 9 años que puede ayudar a Dewey a ganar la competición de bandas de música... y de paso solucionar sus problemas económicos.

En 1994 tuvieron lugar en Los Ángeles dos acontecimientos que sacudieron la tierra: el terremoto de Northridge y el nacimiento de Tenacious D, la banda liderada por Jack Black y Kyle Gass. Los dos se conocieron cuando eran miembros de la Actor’s Gang, una compañía de teatro de Los Ángeles fundada por Tim Robbins, y allí fue donde ambos descubrieron su amor por el rock and roll. Desde su primera actuación en el Al’s Bar de Los Ángeles, donde interpretaron su única canción, Tribute, hasta su revelación como la autoproclamada Mejor Banda de la Tierra, The D, como los conocen sus seguidores, han encantado a todo el que podido escucharlos. Aunque Black y Gass describen Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny como una autobiografía, se han tomado ciertas libertades, pero claro, ¿por qué no iban a hacerlo? al fin y al cabo se trata de The D, los trovadores más irreverentes dentro de los reverentes.

Austria, 1938. María es una alegre novicia que abandona la abadía de Estrasburgo para convertirse en la institutriz de los siete hijos de un militar retirado, el capitán von Trapp, viudo desde hace poco tiempo. La casa de los von Trapp funciona como un cuartel, pero María consigue devolver la alegría a los niños y ganarse su respeto y cariño.

When a violin prodigy Xiaochun and his father head to Beijing seeking fame and fortune, they soon discover a fierce world of cutthroat ambition. But when Xiaochun is "adopted" by a famous music tutor, success finally seems within reach - until a shocking discovery begins to unravel his entire world, and the boy must make the most difficult choice of his life. Can he achieve the fame his father had always hoped for without losing the extraordinary passion that sets him apart?

A gang of city children is secretly practicing to enter a musical competition. All of them plunder their parents' supplies in order to build their own stage and amplifiers. Baffled by these unexplained thefts, the parents decide to hold a meeting as their suspicions turn to a group of camper folks living across from their flat. The tables are turned when the residents take a camping holiday of their own and end up being mistrusted by the locals as much as they themselves did their own neighbors. Meanwhile, the children's gang meets a rival group of kids who are planning to enter the same competition.

Dolores vuelve a colocarse los hábitos de la hermana Mary Clarence. Sus compañeras monjas necesitan ayuda para evitar el cierre de la escuela parroquial de Saint Francis. Con su colaboración y la del resto de las divertidas monjas, se prepara la participación del colegio en un concurso de coros escolares. (FILMAFFINITY)

This documentary on the effect the talent competition "Afghan Star" has on the incredibly diverse inhabitants of Afghanistan affords a glimpse into a country rarely seen. Contestants risk their lives to appear on the television show that is a raging success with the public and also monitored closely by the government.

Las posibilidades de Justin Bieber eran una entre un millón, hasta que millones de fans le descubrieron en la red. Ahora su mundo te pertenece con Never Say Never, la “fascinante e inspiradora” historia del viaje de un adolescente normal y corriente que se ha convertido en el artista más joven que ha logrado abarrotar el escenario más famoso de Nueva York.

Durante el gobierno de Margaret Thatcher, la mina de carbón de un pueblo del norte de Inglaterra está a punto de ser cerrada. La banda de música de los mineros, toda una institución con más de un siglo de historia, también corre el peligro de desaparecer. A pesar de ello, Danny, el líder de la banda, exhorta a sus compañeros para animarlos a seguir compitiendo en el concurso nacional.

A 2008 documentary and debut feature film of Bafta-Award nominated director Jamie Jay Johnson. It follows the lives of the participants of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2007, specifically the entrants from Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus and Georgia. The film sees them proceed from the national finals that saw them crowned the representatives of their country through to the international song festival itself held in Rotterdam, the Netherlands where they each compete against 16 other acts.

High school student Kasumi Ogino is a member of the school choir and after years of praise for her singing voice thinks she is the absolute bee’s knees. When the object of her desires, classmate and photographer Junichi Makimura, asks Kasumi is he can photograph her singing she accepts, thinking this means she is beautiful as well. However the end result is a comical shot of Kasumi with her mouth wide open, which Makimura likes to a hungry salmon! Distraught by the ensuing humiliation, Kasumi quits the choir, until she is encouraged to return by an unlikely counsel - the brutish leader of thuggish rival all male choir, Hiroshi Gondo.

A street Gang that is also a rap group tries to get a record contract.

War Dancing tells the tale of Slammer, a small-time hood whose life changes when he is allowed to take part in a music video shoot. He begins to feel that a career in music might get him on the right track, but the video's choreographer dismisses Slammer's attempts at dancing. This gives Slammer the righteous anger he needs to improve his skills and show everybody he can besuccessful.

Documentary about the prestigious USA International Harp Competition, a discriminating contest held every three years that attracts talented harpists from all over the world. With footage shot in the United States, Paris, Moscow and Zurich, Switzerland, the film follows a handful of young contenders all vying for the coveted grand prize: a lucrative recording contract and a priceless instrument.

Every year thousands compete in the world's greatest singing competition - that you've never heard of. AMERICAN HARMONY journeys deep into the ultra-obsessive, zany, and heartfelt world of competitive barbershop singing, where passion is equaled only by raw talent, and the reward is not fame or fortune, but simply victory. The film focuses on four quartets vying to win the International Championships of Barbershop Singing, in what turns out to be the closest and most controversial victory in its 70 year history. Max Q is the heavy favorite - a superstar quartet comprised of former Champions. Looking to upset them is OC Times (The Heart-Throbs), Vocal Spectrum (The Rookies) and Reveille, an aging foursome who that has been together for 30 years. In total, fifty quartets duke it out for the coveted gold medal, while facing the pressures of quartet life - from big egos to brain cancer and everything in between. - Written by Colin King Miller

Juanito, propietario de una casa discográfica, al tiempo que prepara una canción para Eurovisión que será interpretada por la famosa cantante Marta, ha descubierto a un grupo de muchachos de voces angelicales con un gran futuro. A estos chicos los lleva a su casa, y contrata a Karina, una institutriz que los eduque. Rápidamente, Karina logra el afecto de los niños y el interés de Carlos, prometido de Marta y compositor de la canción de Eurovisión.

Chronicles the Fifth International Piano Competition for Outstanding Amateurs, hosted by The Van Cliburn Foundation. Players from all over the world, ranging from self-taught to classically-trained, aged thirty-five to almost eighty, convene in Fort Worth, Texas for a week of intense competition, music and camaraderie. The film the film provides an intimate look into the lives of these colorful, multi-faceted competitors as they strive to balance the demands of work and family with their love of music. Years of dedicated preparation culminate in critical performances before a professional jury and discerning audience during three nerve-wracking elimination rounds.

A film about the first benefit rock concert when major musicians performed to raise relief funds for the poor of Bangladesh. The Concert for Bangladesh was a pair of benefit concerts organised by former Beatles guitarist George Harrison and Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar. The shows were held at 2:30 and 8:00 pm on Sunday, 1 August 1971, at Madison Square Garden in New York City, to raise international awareness of, and fund relief for refugees from East Pakistan, following the Bangladesh Liberation War-related genocide.

In this Tribeca Film Festival selection, filmmaker Bruce Broder trains his camera on a crop of talented young jazz musicians as they play their way through the Essentially Ellington high school jazz band competition. Sponsored by the Jazz at Lincoln Center program, the prestigious contest gives the kids the chance to rub shoulders with legendary trumpeter Wynton Marsalis -- and put their budding improvisational skills to the test.

'A Prayer for Hetman Mazepa' unfolds during an interesting era in the history of Eastern Europe when Russia, under Peter the Great, and Sweden, under King Charles XII, struggled for power; the Ukraine was the pawn in the middle. In 1709, Ivan Mazepa, Hetman of Ukraine, which was part of the Russian Empire, signed a pact with the Swedish king promising to support Sweden in its war against Russia provided that the Ukraine was given its independence.