Solomon Northup är välutbildad och har talang för musik. Han bor med sin fru och sina barn i Saratoga i New York. En dag blir han kontaktad av två män som påstår sig jobba för en cirkus och Solomon tackar ja till att ackompanjera deras cirkusnummer på fiol under en kort period. Men efter att ha tagit ett glas med männen vaknar han omtöcknad och bunden och ställs inför den fasansfulla sanningen: han ska transporteras till södern som slav.
Baserad på memoaren Twelve Years a Slave av Solomon Northup och David Wilson från år 1853.
Tim Roth och Clive Owen har huvudrollerna i François Girards gripande historiska drama om en man som letar efter sin barndoms vän, en violinist vars föräldrar dog i förintelsen och som försvann flera årtionden tidigare, samma kväll som sitt första offentliga uppträdande.
A former world-famous conductor of the Bolshoï orchestra, known as "The Maëstro", Andreï Filipov had seen his career publicly broken by Leonid Brezhnev for hiring Jewish musicians and now works cleaning the concert hall where he once directed. One day, he intercepts an official invitation from the prestigious Théâtre du Châtelet. Through a series of mad antics, he reunites his old orchestra, now composed of old alcoholic musicians, and flies to perform in Paris and complete the Tchaikovsky concerto interrupted 30 years earlier. For the concerto, he engages a young violin soloist with whom he has an unexpected connection.
Seven year old Sasha practices violin every day to satisfy the ambition of his parents. Already withdrawn as a result of his routines, Sasha quickly regains confidence when he accidentally meets and befriends worker Sergei, who works on a steamroller in their upscale Moscow neighborhood.
A young violin prodigy is manipulated and pushed to her psychological breaking point by the composer she adores.
James is still in love with his ex-wife Barbara and has one last chance to win her back. While his friends and parents try to help, they're dealing with their own complicated love lives. But, in a crazy world, love is the only thing that makes sense.
Jerry runs into the Metropolitan Opera, trying to evade Tom.
Misa is already a teenager but with little interest in girls and much for his violin. Two granddads, Zika and Milan, are worried for their grandson who may 'deviate' like Steven from "Dynasty", the show they like to watch. That's why they decide to introduce him better to their attractive housekeeper.
Teta Kaabour is an 83-year old family matriarch and sharp-witted queen bee of an old Beiruti quarter. She’s been gripped as of late by the silence of her once-buzzing household where she raised children and grandchildren. Resigned to Argileh smoking and day-long coffee drinking on a now-empty balcony, Teta now invokes the deepest memories of her violinist husband who died twenty years ago. She claims a preparedness to re-unite with him.
Every night, at eight o'clock, Hermann appears alone on stage to give a short violin concert, but his audience is not exactly that he believes it is. (Inspired by the real story of Hermann Schreiber, Vigo, Spain, 2020.)
This short film provides a fanciful account of how Felix Mendelssohn came to compose "The Wedding March".
A silent, little man carrying a violin case wanders into the kitchen of a swanky nightclub looking for a meal. The chef takes pity on him and convinces the nightclub's owner that the man is actually a world-famous artist. The owner insists that the man perform for his customers. That's when the fun begins.
Documentary portrait follows the still active Polish master violinist Ida Haendel (1924) from performance to performance.