Musician Movies

Award-winning documentary Resilience & Sacrifice follows an emerging musician who shelved his dreams to raise his family. Years later, he returns to...

In this Afro-surrealist tale, Coltrane, a gifted saxophonist haunted by trauma, struggles to stay paid and relevant in Harlem’s speakeasy...

Fabian builds his house on an old cart that he will pull himself, with the plan to walk to Serbia. But then it turns out that building the cart in...

Journalist Cecilia James is a sucker for a love song. So when she stumbles across a clue to the identity of the muse for one of rock’s...

The story of the piper Švanda, who went abroad for money and fame, but whose love for his homeland ultimately wins.

Formed in 2013 and celebrating 12 years since their debut, Silica Gel has been praised for "creating a sound never heard before." In 2016, they were...

Fourth in the IMA Portraits series, this short introduces us to the life and work of electronic/contemporary composer Eliane Radigue. Radigue...

Café assistant Caterpillar performs at an open mic night hosted by her boss, Moth!

The (mostly) true story of the greatest jazz drummer you've never heard of who stumbled upon a 16-year-old singer and nurtured her into a legend.

Renowned Photographer Chris Floyd captured the tumultuous life of the iconic band The Verve from the inside, as they toured as relative unknowns on...

Daniel is a once-famous musician running away from his talent. One of the few friends he has left is his grandmother, and their special bond was...

An in depth look at a little known recording artist named Weird Paul. After releasing several homemade cassette albums in the late 80's, Paul finally...

When Benny's younger brother, Loren, suddenly reappears after being missing for months, the two are forced to reckon with the drastically different...

A moving documentary. The life stories told by immigrants in Paris are often saddening. The hardships they went through and their current uncertainty...

Czeslaw Niemen, who died ten years ago, was an icon for several generations of Poles. In Poland under communism he managed to raise popular music to...

A documentary film by Peter I. Chang which traces the life of the Japanese musician Hisao Shinagawa through his early years as a folk singer in Tokyo...

A short-form documentary that follows the members of a Montana-based psychedilic rock band from early days up until present.

Bill Drummond, once the most notorious man in pop music, now travels around the world baking cakes, building beds and shining shoes as part of a...

The story of Finnish singer Abraham 'Aappo' Ojanperä, who was born in the late 1850s. On his journey from a crier boy from Liminga to an...