The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble
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Cristina Pato of Silk Road Ensemble
The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble by Morgan Neville
USA 2015, Berlinale Special
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Kayhan Kalhor of Silk Road Ensemble and Aynur Dog
The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble by Morgan Neville
USA 2015, Berlinale Special
© Silk Road Project
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Kinan Azmeh of Silk Road Ensemble and students
The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble by Morgan Neville
USA 2015, Berlinale Special
© Silk Road Project
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Wu Man of Silk Road Ensemble and Zhang Ximin
The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble by Morgan Neville
USA 2015, Berlinale Special
© Silk Road Project
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Yo-Yo Ma, famed Cellist and founder of the Silk Road Ensemble
The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble by Morgan Neville
USA 2015, Berlinale Special
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Morgan Neville
The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble by Morgan Neville
USA 2015, Berlinale Special
© Silk Road Project
Morgan Neville’s documentary outlines Yo-Yo Ma’s own life story: born to Chinese parents in Paris, he was just seven when Leonard Bernstein first presented him as an exceptionally gifted cellist. The film also portrays several individual musicians such as Syrian Kinan Azmeh whose clarinet playing resonates with the agony of war in his native land, and Iranian Kayhan Kalhor who was spied upon in his own country and then forced into exile. Neville’s film conveys the energy required by each ensemble member to allow the universal power and beauty of music to unfold, in performances that are as natural as they are authentic and that truly come from the heart.
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Cristina Pato, Dieter Kosslick, Caitrin Rogers
The Festival Director surrounded by the Spanish bagpiper and pianist as well as the producer of the film.
The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble · Berlinale Special · Feb 15, 2016
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Great fun before the premiere
The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble · Berlinale Special · Feb 15, 2016
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Kayhan Kalhor, Kinan Azmeh, Cristina Pato, Morgan Neville
The director on the right with three of his musicians.
The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble · Berlinale Special · Feb 15, 2016
Since 2000, cellist Yo-Yo Ma has brought together musicians from all over the world with his Silk Road project. Video of the performance after the screening by part of The Silk Road Ensemble.
The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble
Berlinale Special · In Focus · Feb 15, 2016