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First Films of 2023 Festival, Announced!

With great pleasure, we confirm the first titles of our film programme for the fifth edition of IN-EDIT NL 2023 (13-23 April 2022 – Melkweg)!

The fifth edition of IN-EDIT NL sees documentaries about Grace Jones, Thelonious Monk, Aryana Saeed, Lee Fields, the electronica of Cologne, CAN, Japanese Min’yō, Manguebit, Sonic Fantasy and Michael Jackson. But this is only the beginning, stay tuned for even more film announcements including the Dutch selections, shorts, and more!

Grace Jones: bloodlight and bami

Looking Back: 5 Years of IN-EDIT

Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami

Sophie Fiennes | 2017 | UK, Ireland | 115 min. | English w. Dutch subtitles

We start off with a film that is very dear to us. This electrifying journey through the public and private worlds of pop culture mega-icon Grace Jones is the first film IN-EDIT NL ever screened. To please our nostalgic hearts, we’re bringing it back to the big screen one more time in a special retrospective programme. The film contrasts musical sequences with intimate personal footage, all the while brimming with Jones’s bold aesthetic. A larger-than-life entertainer, an androgynous glam-pop diva, an unpredictable media presence – Grace Jones is all these things and more. Sophie Fiennes’s documentary goes beyond the traditional music biography, offering a portrait as stylish and unconventional as its subject.

Thelonious Monk: rewind and play

Dutch Premiere

Thelonious Monk: Rewind & Replay

Alain Gomis | 2022 | Germany, France | 65 min

In December 1969, legendary jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk ended his European concert tour with a performance at the Salle Pleyel in Paris. Before the show, he was invited to appear on a French television program to perform and answer questions in an intimate setting. Using newly discovered footage from this recording, director Alain Gomis reveals the disconnect between Monk and his interviewer, Henri Renaud, whose unwittingly trivializing approach conveys the casual racism and exploitation prevalent in the music industry at large.

AND Still I Sing

EU Premiere

And Still I Sing

Fazila Amiri | 2022 | Canada | 90 min

Controversial Afghan pop star and activist Aryana Sayeed mentors hopeful contestants as they prepare to appear on their country’s hit TV show Afghan Star. For 13 straight seasons, the show has featured only male winners. In 2019, this was about to change. When female singers Zahra Elham and Sadiqa Madadgar are on the verge of being named the show’s first ever female winners, the Taliban take over and their lifelong dreams of becoming pop stars are suddenly under threat.

Metallica: 72 Seasons

Global Premiere

2023 | United States | Worldwide listening party! | 120 min.

72 Seasons – Global Premiere will feature exclusive interviews with Metallica, with the full band delving into the origins and stories behind the songs and accompanying music videos for every track on the album. The result will be a one-night-only opportunity for fans to experience 72 Seasons first and fully.  Be the first to hear the band’s new album, 72 Seasons, on our opening night and the day before its release, on the big screen with pummeling surround sound in this special event exclusively in cinemas for one night only.  

The Sound of Cologne

Dutch Premiere

Kristina Schippling |  2022 | Germany | 93 min

Time travel through the history of electronic music from Cologne, from the 50s until today. The film follows the roots of inventing a new style of music from the WDR’s Electronic Studio, Stockhausen, and CAN via Kompakt, A-Musik until the vivid and diverse club scene of today. Artists such as Irmin Schmidt, Jaki Liebezeit and Holger Czukay of CAN, Mouse on Mars, Marcus Schmickler, Niobe, Wolfgang Voigt, Michael Mayer, Lena Willikens, Barnt, Fr. Reichert, paint a mesmerizing portrait of a city where each and everyone is somehow interconnected.

SONIC FANTASY

Dutch Premiere

Sonic Fantasy

Marcos Cabotá | 2022 | Spain, USA | 95 min

Bruce Swedien was probably the best sound engineer in history, having worked on recordings by jazz giants such as Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Dizzy Gillespie. This is the gripping story of how, in 1982, with the record industry in free fall, he worked his magic to save none other than Michael Jackson and Quincy Jones’ Thriller, the best-selling album in history.

Manguebit

EU Premiere

Manguebit

 

PC: Daniela Dacorso

Jura Capela | 2022 | Brazil | 101 min

Mangue Beat was a musical and artistic movement that emerged in the Brazilian state of Pernambuco in the 1990s. Thanks to the success of bands like Chico Science and Nação Zumbi and Mundo Livre S.A., it helped to shine a light on the peripheries and cultural expressions of the Recife metropolitan area and put it on the global music map. The film captures the free-thinking spirit of the movement through the dare and innovation that characterized it.

CAN and Me

Dutch Premiere

CAN and Me

Michael P. Aust | 2022 | Germany | 90 min

What does ‘sound’ mean? What does ‘silence’ mean? An intimate presentation of the life and work of Irmin Schmidt, founder of the German band CAN, whose individual style shaped generations of musicians in pop and electronic music. The film follows his path from being a classical conductor to being a pupil of famous composers Karl-Heinz Stockhausen and György Ligeti, from CAN, his work on film scores, opera, and finally, his love for electronic club music. The film thrives especially on its cinematic value, embedding footage of a time that now, with its inclination to eccentricity and musical adventures, seems colourful and crazy.

Bring Minyo Back

EU Premiere

Yuji Moriwaki | 2022 | Japan | 83 min

Minyo is Japanese traditional folk music, and a genre at risk of extinction. The Minyo Crusaders are a Tokyo-based band who mix Minyo from all over Japan with Latin and Afro flavours into unique arrangements, seeking to bring the genre back from oblivion.

Lee Fields: Faithful Man

Lee Fields Faithful Man

Jessamyn Ansary, Joyce Mishaan | 2022 | United States | 80 min

Listening to the soul sounds coming through his transistor radio in the late fifties and early sixties, Lee was hooked. Through the seventies, he made his living touring the legendary Chitlin’ Circuit alongside some of the greatest names in blues and soul history. He landed a gig with Kool and the Gang before their rise to fame. But, as the seventies came to a close, disco began its reign and Lee’s soul career plummeted. Due to a very successful and sold out screening that we organised during our last IN-CROWD, we’ve decided to screen the film one more time during the festival. Missed it? this is your one time to catch it again!

Getting It Back: The Story of Cymande

Getting It Back: The Story of Cymande

Tim MacKenzie-Smith | 2022 | UK | 89 min

This is the tale of how some friends from Brixton – originally from former English colonies – developed a sophisticated funk-rock sound with African roots. The sound was completely distinct and gave birth to drum breaks and bass lines that spread and influenced the disco, hip-hop, and house music scenes.