Music of our Neighbors – dir. Juniper Hill, Cornelia Günauer, Steffen Boseckert

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Original Film Title: Music of our Neighbors

Director’s Name: Juniper Hill, Cornelia Günauer, Steffen Boseckert

Writer’s Name: Juniper Hill, Cornelia Günauer

Producer: Juniper Hill

Country of Origin: Germany

Country of Filming: Germany

Language: German

Runtime: 1 hour 25 minutes 13 seconds

Film Description:

Nestled amongst the vineyards in the Main River Valley lies the picturesque German town of Würzburg. What musics do the people of this provincial Franconian city play, sing, and dance to? With a third of the 130,000 residents having a migration background, diverse traditions from across five continents can be heard in our neighbors’ homes. The feature film Music of Our Neighbors comprises a series of six intimate portraits of musicians and dancers in and around Würzburg who perform Spanish Flamenco dance, Canadian Métis music and indigenous rock, German accordion music, Indian Kathak and Bollywood dance, Arabic rap, African drumming, and Bolivian folkloric music and dance. These portraits reveal the often unrecognized cultural spectrum of rapidly diversifying provincial Europe. As individual artists share their struggles, joys, and life journeys, we see how music and dance are creatively used to cope with challenges, connect to heritage, build new communities, and bridge cultural divides.