REHEARSALS
Ana-Maria Vîjdea | Romania, Portugal 2015 | 59 Min. | OmeU
Without knowing each other in advance, Mehdi Aminian (Iran, ney), Mehmet Polat (Turkey, oud), Emmanuel Hovhannisyan (Armenia, duduk and zurna), Monica Mădaș (London-based Romania, lead singer) Maria Casandra Hauși (Romania, lead singer), Aleix Tobias Sabater (Spain, percussion), Meg Rosaleen Hamilton (UK, violin), and Ruven Ruppik (Germany, percussion) spend some days together in a rehearsals room rearranging the music of Maria Tănase, a Romanian folk singer from the 20th century and a major cultural icon, in order to create a homogenous musical act. Rehearsals is an intimate portrait of the act of coming together and creating the music.
