Hearts Know * the Runaway Brides

Nineteen brides, scattered over four continents, run off on their wedding day. Reality and fiction merge when random people from different cultures contemplate why the brides run away.

Al compás

A portrait of the Arab musicians Bahaa al Jomaa and Yazan Ibrahim.

Svátky písní Olomouc 2007

Shaping Bamboo

For the 'Are'are people of the Solomon Islands, the most valued music is that of the four types of panpipe ensembles. With the exception of slit drums, all musical instruments are made of bamboo; therefore the general word for instruments and the music performed with them is "bamboo" ('au). This film shows the making of panpipes, from the cutting the bamboo in the forest to the making of the final bindings. The most important part of the work consists in shaping each tube to its necessary length. Most 'Are'are panpipe makers measure the length of old instruments before they shape new tubes. Master musician 'Irisipau, surprisingly, takes the measure using his body, and adjusts the final tuning by ear. For the first time we can see here how the instruments and their artificial equiheptatonic scale-seven equidistant degrees in an octave-are practically tuned.

Pascha v Jakubanoch

Věčná píseň

Karol Plicka was an important musician and composer. He recorded folk songs immediately after hearing them in musical notation to preserve them for future generations. Similarly, he records and interprets traditions associated with dance, folk song and local stories that vary from region to region in his film The Eternal Song. The short documentary presents merry-making in Slovak and Czech regions that are changing with the coming modernization and transformation of musical records.

Le Mariage de Monaco

Exclusive footage captures the wedding of American screen star Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier of Monaco.

Marriage of Miss Rose Carmel and Mr. Solly Gerschcowit

Follow the happy couple from the family shop on Brick Lane to a garden party serenaded by the San Diego Dance Band.

100 Year Old Coach

Crowds block the streets to catch a view of a handsome old carriage at a Jewish wedding.

War Time Weddings

The daughter of famed actor-manager Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree gets hitched to a military Captain during WWI.

Mi arma

A young drag queen from Andalusia exposes the difficulties of adding aspects of her homeland culture to her artistic expression.

I Made a Vow

A couple from North Preston, Nova Scotia plan an elaborate wedding with dozens of bridesmaids.

Venerdì Santo - Bronte

Ailano, la tradizione

The religious traditions of a town in the province of Caserta, Italy.

Ram za nekoliko poza

Six part TV series where Karpo Godina filmed common folk, showing the world of people who have filled their lives with hobbies and skills of their own making. It features gold panners on the river Pek, a shepherdess who plays music on a leaf, a football fan, a potter, and an unusual orchestra.

Rules of Single Life

A Finnish documentary follows four young men who have one year to find new love in Helsinki.

Wedding of Maharaj Kumar Shri Meghrajji Shaeb of Kutch and Maharaj Shri of Kishangarh

Fireworks, illuminations and traditional dance all feature in a stunningly opulent royal wedding at Kundla, Gujarat.

Taneční zeměpis II. – Z Balkánu do Prahy

Taneční zeměpis III. – Mládež pěti kontinentů

Here's a Health to the Barley Mow

From the sexy, savage Cornish May Day rites of Alan Lomax's Oss Oss Wee Oss, to Jeremy Deller and Alan Kane's footage of ferociously fought traditional football; from children's games in London's bombed East End to intricate sword and step dances, this collection of poetic documentaries, long unseen television reports and rare silent film footage reveals just how powerful and enduring the folk traditions of Great Britain have always been. The silent films feature innovative fiddle and melodeon accompaniments by contemporary folk musicians.