Private Project

a story of Sahel Sounds

Shot on three continents, this film provides an inside look at Christopher Kirkley’s project “Sahel Sounds” - a blog, record label and platform to explore arts and music of the Sahel region through non-traditional ethnographic fieldwork.
Not a strict portrait, nor a straight music documentary, but an attempt to bridge cultural and geographical distances, the film celebrates musical performances of current artists from Niger, while leaving room to reflect
on today’s role of ethnomusicology.

  • neopankollektiv
    Director
  • Peter Rommel
    Producer
  • neopankollektiv
    Producer
  • Christopher Kirkley
    Key Cast
  • Talia
    Soundtrack
  • Tamkamba de Niamey
    Soundtrack
  • Mona
    Soundtrack
  • Hama
    Soundtrack
  • Fatou Seïdi Ghali
    Soundtrack
  • Les filles de Illighadad
    Soundtrack
  • Mdou Moctar
    Soundtrack
  • Mamman Sani
    Soundtrack
  • Etran de L`Aïr
    Soundtrack
  • Florian Beck
    Mixing
  • Stefan Sick
    Grading
  • 30000fps
    Artwork
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    a story of Sahel Sounds
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 22 minutes 18 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    September 1, 2016
  • Country of Origin:
    Germany
  • Country of Filming:
    Germany, Niger, United States
  • Language:
    English, French
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • 50th Hof International Film Festival
    Hof
    Germany
    October 27, 2016
    World premiere
    Special Mention
  • 8th Norient Musikfilm Festival
    Bern
    Switzerland
    European premiere
  • Counterflows Festival
    Glasgow
    Ireland
    UK premiere
  • hotDOCS
    Toronto
    Canada
    North American premiere
  • iREP
    Lagos
    Nigeria
    African premiere
  • 14th IndieLisboa
    Lisbon
    Portugal
    Portuguese premiere
  • 14th dokumentarfilmwoche hamburg
    Hamburg
    Germany
Distribution Information
  • Magnetfilm GmbH
    Country: Worldwide
Director Biography - neopankollektiv

Founded as an interdisciplinary collective by Florian Kläger, Lisa Sperling, Tobias Adam and Markus Milcke in the summer of 2014, projects are made in different constellations and without given roles. Everything is equal, flexible and open.
The movie “Tell me Mnemosyne” by Lisa Sperling premiered in the section “Perspektive deutsches Kino” of the 65th Berlinale and won the “Carte Blanche” Young-Talents-Award at the 39th Duisburger Filmwoche. “a story of Sahel Sounds” is the second film project by neopan kollektiv.

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