Hai cercato: The Listeners
Listen / 2016
Documentary without audio produced by deaf people. Music is depicted visually with the complete absence of musical instruments or voices. Directed by Makihara Eri and choreographer Dakei. With a diverse lineup including ordinary deaf people with zero acting experience and a choreographer who performs in Japan and abroad, this film pulls out all the tops to give visual expression to music through the physical body. An aging man uses multiple sign language poems to convey the four seasons, and a girl expresses the wind amidst the rustling trees.
Listening / 2020
Socially anxious guy meets deaf girl on a night out in Budapest.
Listen to Me / 2021
“Listen to me, there’s something I have to say, but I still can’t do it showing my face.” 25 years after running away from her home town in Morocco, a woman needs to explain why she fled away without an explanation. Yet she is not able to do it by showing her face, that’s why she has to record her voice.
Listen To My Voice / 2023
A mother and daughter attempt to rebuild their relationship, which fell apart in the shadow of childhood trauma. Armed with a camera, the director returns to her childhood home in search of recognition. Between bags of clothes, the generation and memory gaps are revealed. Despite the geographical and mental distance between them, they share a common desire for love and closeness.
If you would listen / 2015
A young woman prepares to meet her biological mother for the first time. The twist? Her mother is imprisoned.
Listener's Choice / 2003
The film tells of a love story linking the heart of Aziza and Jamal, and links a friendship between Jamal and Selim, the disabled young man who escapes from the persecution of his family to him and who is embraced by Abu Jamal, as if he was one of his sons
Listen: The Land Was Torn / 2023
Based on the universe of three indigenous peoples pressured by the destruction caused by mining, the film proposes an approach to the thought of the Yanomami, Munduruku and Mebêngôkre (Kayapó), in the formation of a historical alliance in defense of territories. It is, therefore, a narrative about resistance and resilience, in the figure of an unprecedented union that establishes the maintenance of their physical and subjective territories. Beyond the destruction caused by mining, this is a film about the impossibility of separation between indigenous existence and their territory.
Listening In / 2019
When an intelligence unit soldier starts to spy on a gay couple, he is lead to confront his own sexual identity.
Listen, see and hush / 2010
What you do, follows you for the rest of your life.
Listening to Beethoven / 2016
The stone jungle of the gloomy city does not leave a single sprout of greenery. But nature is bursting out from under the slabs, bursting with the greenery of sprouts. And no matter how much the city tries to cope with unwanted vegetation, nature takes its course and greens it.
If You Listen Carefully / 2016
In the context of Chilean education, for teenagers are forced to decide their future at an early age. Over the course of a year, we'll see how they can just have fun, while they await for the arrival to an unwanted destination.
Listen to the Radio / 2019
Europe’s most successful public cultural radio station is struggling. The film follows the passionate radio crew over a period two years as they attempt to reinvent their program. Just when the station begins to regain listeners the right-wing government starts to threaten its independence.
Listen to the Beat of Our Images / 2021
In 1961, France established its space-center in Kourou, French Guiana, expropriating local Guianese. Field investigation meets archival video to empower a silenced population.
When You Listen / 2019
Multidisciplinary Catalan flamenco singer Francisco Contreras Molinas, known by the artistic name of Niño de Elche (The child from Elche), sets off to Bolivia aiming to discover the origins of music and reach the very core of the art creation process. Along this existential quest in the depths of the Latin American soul, full of extraordinary acquaintances and experiences, he will reacquaint himself with his innermost feelings, reshaping his relationship with music, with his family, with life as a whole. A self-awareness journey embarking for the final liberating destination: the child hidden inside us all.
Listen / 1992
A film about sound and hearing. Some of the world's most daring composers and musicologists probe the nature of sound and hearing in this unique documentary. The sounds of a rabbit sleeping, the rhythms of a tugboat on water, and the music inspired by industrial machines are among the sounds explored. Includes insights from John Cage, Luciano Berio and Knud Victor.
Stop. Listen. /
A blind man hears a strange melody while changing the channel on his television.
Listen to me / 2021
Deaf or hard of hearing, the young man captures the rhythms played on the hang by a young woman, but will the two hear each other?
Listen To The Grass Grow / 2018
"Listen to the grass grow" is a short abstract personal memory; sometimes too emotional, sometimes too illogical. But that’s the way our thoughts are floating in the space of our consciousness. This is the story of Maria. We are observing her at the beginning of her ‘new life’ in a new and unknown place. An unfamiliar house, she has no memories here, not yet. Her past belongs to other spaces, far away from here. She’s exploring this new place with her body, in order to awaken its physical memory and to reach an inner authentic movement. Maria is trying to feel this place; her body is trying to feel this space; her movements, driven by old memories, are filling the void.
Listening To The Air / 2020
The 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami destroyed large parts of the small town of Rikuzentakata. Here, Hiromi ABE hosts a radio show in which she reports on local events and interviews the residents. She focuses not only on the time after the disaster and the ongoing rebuilding of the community, but also on recording personal stories.
Listening to Moscow / 2015
Moscow has become a home and stage for artists from all over the world. Music in this city sounds without stopping: a cosmopolitan Venezuelan who settled in Moscow is preparing the presentation of the album of his band – an important event of the underground rock scene. A Chinese pianist from the Conservatory, who is in love with Rachmaninoff, is preparing for a serious exam. American and Kazakh are experimenting with formats and looking for a listener among the neighbors in the entrance, inviting them to an apartment party. The Cuban ensemble once again takes to the stage of the restaurant with national songs and dances. A Ghanaian drummer plays with a gospel choir at a Protestant service. Each of them exists in its own small worlds, accessible to the listener; and these worlds make up the musical landscape of Moscow.