Welcome to the Sooner Channel "Creatives: Make Music!". Here you can immerse yourself in the fascinating world of music makers, discover the creative processes behind the scenes and experience the passion that brings music to life. Our carefully compiled collection of films and documentaries offers you a deep insight into the lives and work of musicians from a wide range of genres and cultures.
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Rock Chicks
Documentary, Music, Dance, Theater
2023
1h.18min
16+
Women have been an integral part of rock music from the beginning, but have been successfully repressed from the collective memory.
Redemption
Drama
2018
1h.44min
16+
Menachem, a widowed father is a former rock singer and has left everything behind to become part of the ultra orthodox jewish community.
Recycling Medea: Not an Opera Ballet Film
Music, Dance, Theater
2013
1h.15min
16+
The Greek composer and national hero Mikis Theodorakis settles accounts on stage with a society that robs its children of their future.
Stand Up My Beauty
Documentary, Music, Dance, Theater
2022
1h.49min
0 FSK
Heidi Specogna (Cahier africain) accompanies the Ethiopian singer Nardos Wude Tesfaw, who combines traditional singing and emancipation, over 5 years.
Matangi / Maya / M.I.A.
Music, Dance, Theater, Documentary
2018
1h.36min
16+
Unparalleled, intimate profile of the critically acclaimed artist M.I.A. that chronicles her remarkable journey from refugee immigrant to pop star.
Orphea
Music, Dance, Theater, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
2021
1h.39min
12 FSK
Alexander Kluge and the multi-media artist Khavn revive the Orpheus myth and use it as a starting point for a true revolution.
The Forbidden Strings
Documentary, Music, Dance, Theater
2019
1h.22min
16+
They risk it all: the rock band Arikain, formed by Afghans living in Iran, dreams of performing on a stage one day.
Soul Kids
Documentary, Music, Dance, Theater
2021
1h.16min
0
In this music school, kids from Memphis, one of the USA’s most distressed cities, get a chance to become professional musicians.
Parov Stelar - Backstage 2022
Documentary, Music, Dance, Theater
2021
58min
12 FSK
Parov Stelar, is regarded as the founder of electro swing. His unique sound has been conquering concert halls around the world for more than 15 years.
To Live to Sing
Drama, Music, Dance, Theater
2019
1h.47min
16+
Faced with the imminent destruction of their opera house, a traditional Sichuan opera troupe plans a big show to save their opera house.
Gallant Indies
Documentary, Music, Dance, Theater
2021
1h.49min
16+
A choreographer and a visual artist bring together urban dance and opera to reinvent Jean-Philippe Rameau's baroque masterpiece, Les Indes Galantes.
The Phantom of the Sauna
Music, Dance, Theater, Queer
2021
1h.33min
16+
This LGBTQ musical revolves around Javi, a young sex worker, and his quest for love and happiness.
Punk the Capital: Building a Sound Movement
Documentary, Music, Dance, Theater
2019
1h.30min
16+
The first exploration of the incredible challenges that the punk subculture faced when it took root in the Nation’s Capital in the late 1970’s.
Sounds From the Fog
Documentary, Queer
2012
1h.29min
12 FSK
The musician Wilhelm Heckmann survived 8 years of concentration camp, branded with the 'pink triangle' for gay prisoners.
Create & Connect
Documentary, Music, Dance, Theater
2021
1h.18min
0
80 young artists from all over the world meet at Lichtenberg Castle, Germany to experience the creative and unifying power of music and dance.
Desolation Center
Documentary, Independent
2018
1h.35min
16+
The untold story of a series of Reagan-era guerrilla desert happenings, with Sonic Youth, Minutemen, Meat Puppets and Einstürzende Neubauten.
Sound of Heimat
Documentary, Music, Dance, Theater
2012
1h.29min
0 FSK
In a quest to find the sound of the German homelands (“Heimat”), a musician from New Zealand crisscrosses the country.
Under the Underground
Documentary, Music, Dance, Theater
2019
54min
16+
A guided tour through the improvised spaces of Janka Industries, an underground cellar vault and creative microcosm of Vienna’s subculture.
Sergei Nakariakov: No more Wunderkind
Biography, Music, Dance, Theater
2004
57min
0 FSK
Sergei Nakariakov has succeeded in freeing the trumpet from the narrow boundaries that are attributed to it within classical music.
Bunch of Kunst
Music, Dance, Theater, Documentary
2017
1h.43min
12 FSK
The British punk duo from Nottingham is known for their brutally honest lyrics and DIY-ethos.
Unplugged Leben: Guaia Guaia
Documentary, Music, Dance, Theater
2013
1h.32min
0 FSK
Two street musicians tour through Germany for a year going from gig to gig and looking for somewhere to live.
El Viaje
Music, Dance, Theater, Documentary
2016
1h.30min
6 FSK
Rodrigo Gonzalez, bassist of the German punk rock band DIE ÄRZTE, travels to Chile, on the trail of the music of his childhood.
Asmahan
Biography, Documentary
2014
1h.11min
16+
A Palestinian director uses the story of legendary Syrian entertainer ASMAHAN to offer a fresh take on Middle Eastern history and the Arab Spring.
If I Think About Germany in the Night
Documentary, Music, Dance, Theater
2017
1h.40min
0 FSK
A look at five pioneers of electronic music for whom work is their raison d'etre.
La Chana
Biography, Music, Dance, Theater
2016
1h.23min
0 FSK
The impressive life story of a unique dancer who successfully left her mark on the dance world.
Namrud: Troublemaker
Documentary
2017
1h.35min
16+
Jowan Safadi, an Israeli Palestinian and musician from the Middle East, is under investigation by Israeli police for "inciting terrorism".
Walter Arlen’s First Century
Biography, Documentary
2019
1h.34min
16+
Multifaceted portrait of the composer and music critic Walter Arlen, who musically processed the horrors of the Nazi era.
Asi mit Niwoh - The Sotry of Jürgen Zeltinger
Biography, Documentary
2019
1h.30min
12 FSK
He was a street musician, redneck, weirdo, fag and, above all, always a rebel - this documentary is a memorial to Cologne icon Jürgen Zeltinger.
Sumé: The Sound of a Revolution
Documentary
2014
1h.13min
0 FSK
A successful rock band from Greenland? It actually existed! In 1973, the Greenlandic band Sumé released their debut album.
Der Konzertdealer
Documentary, Independent
2017
1h.26min
6 FSK
An unusual portrait film about ex-punk Scumeck Sabottka, who has been a trailblazing tour and concert promoter for 30 years.
And You Belong - Scream Club!
Documentary, Queer
2013
1h.26min
12 FSK
The inspiring story of the hip-hop electro duo "Scream Club!".
Roadcrew
Music, Dance, Theater, Documentary
2011
1h.20min
0 FSK
The film follows the lives of three Roadies. 15 years they lived their dream of sex and drugs and rock'n'roll. Now, at the end of their 30's, the desire ...
Monks – The Transatlantic Feedback
Documentary, Music, Dance, Theater
2006
1h.40min
6 FSK
They were a sensation – yet went virtually unnoticed. The Monks themselves weren't even aware of the influence they had on other musicians.
Imagine waking up tomorrow morning and all music has disappeared
Documentary, Music, Dance, Theater
2015
1h.22min
16+
Imagine waking up tomorrow morning and all music has disappeared. Just like that. What will remain when it is all gone: CD’s, iPods, instruments?
Toumast – Guitars And Kalashnikovs
Documentary, Independent
2010
1h.26min
16+
Moussa has swapped his Kalashnikov for a guitar. The former freedom fighter is now a protest singer.
Hans in Luck
Documentary, Music, Dance, Theater
2009
1h.2min
16+
A portrait of the Berlin bassist Hans Narva, his music, and his ironic denial of all rules – regardless of the authority behind them.
Searching For Sugar Man
Biography, Documentary
2012
1h.26min
0 FSK
Oscar-winning documentary: The incredible, true story of Rodriguez, great '70s rock icon. The moving musical detective story won numerous awards.
Oh Yeah, She Performs
Documentary, Independent
2012
1h.37min
16+
A doc about four extraordinary women pursuing the same dream: composing, producing and living from their own music, without compromising their ideals
So Glad I Did
Documentary, Music, Dance, Theater
2011
1h.6min
16 FSK
This film follows singer Bruno Adams struggle against cancer as he continues to tour and write songs.
A Portrait - The Choreographer Sasha Waltz
Documentary
2014
2h.33min
0
Sasha Waltz is one of the best known and most exciting choreographers in Europe. Her choreographies always surprise the audience with new aesthetics in ...
Sing Your Song
Biography, Documentary
2012
1h.44min
12 FSK
This documentary is a memorial to the extraordinary artist, activist and family man Harry Belafonte.
Benda Bilili!
Documentary, Music, Dance, Theater
2010
1h.22min
6 FSK
From the streets of Kinshasa to world fame: the music doc BENDA BILILI! premiered in Cannes and charts the rise of street musicians Staff Benda Bilili ...
The First Rasta
Biography, Music, Dance, Theater
2010
1h.25min
0 FSK
Leonard Percival Howell founded the Rastafarian Movement, was also sailor, world traveler, and revolutionary. The documentary follows from Jamaica to Panama, ...
It Might Get Loud
Documentary, Music, Dance, Theater
2008
1h.33min
0 FSK
Oscar winning documentarian Davis Guggenheim invited Jimmy Page, The Edge and Jack White - three of the most influential rock guitarists – to a musical ...
The Folk Singer
Biography, Music, Dance, Theater
2008
1h.44min
16 FSK
THE FOLK SINGER leads the viewer into a world full of raw human emotion, slapstick humor and wild American Roots Music.
The Dead Brothers
Documentary, Music, Dance, Theater
2006
1h.30min
16+
This film is a unique portrait of Swiss band: THE DEAD BROTHERS. A melange of interviews, musical performance, monologues and cinematic imagery.