Narrative and documentary films centered around music and its forms.
Festival Programme
Films — by Strand
Rhythms
The Best Summer
Rediscovered and resurrected into a Sundance-premiering doc by Tamra Davis, this is a raw 90s capsule of life on tour with The Beastie Boys, Sonic Youth, Foo Fighters, Beck, Pavement, Rancid, The Amps and Bikini Kill.
Everybody Digs Bill Evans
Grant Gee was awarded Best Director at the Berlinale for this intense, fragmentary and inventive portrait of Bill Evans, in an interval of the American jazz great’s career when he grappled with grief and opioid addiction.
Low Expectations
When a musician's career implodes, she retreats home, takes a job at a high school and quietly pieces herself back together. A sweetly low-key Cannes gem about mental healing, second chances and the unexpected joy of starting over.
Nambassa Festival
Sixty thousand hippies on a Waihī farm – Aotearoa's own Woodstock, restored and now on the big screen.
Whistle
The competitive world of musical whistling takes centre stage in this humorous documentary that showcases the weird and wonderful lives that have devoted themselves to the art.