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ANGOLA MUSIC SCHOOL
A war-ravaged past… a new hope for the future
A film by Phil Grabsky
From the director of the multi-award winning ‘My Childhood, My Country’, Seventh Art Productions presents, ‘Angola Music School’.
In Luanda, one of the world’s poorest and most dangerous places, three students from Angola’s only music school work towards their end-of-year concert. The Music School is Angola’s first and only school of its kind. It houses some 80 students, most of them desperately poor. Many face disapproval and outright rejection from their families who can’t see a future in music. This film asks if, despite the ravages of 27 years of civil war, musical passion can overcome terrible hardships.
The film spans a year in the life of the only music school in Luanda and follows three students, each striving to make it through their course.
Angola is still one of the world’s poorest and most dangerous places and the students often have to go hungry and face difficult opposition so that they can follow their musical ambition.
Angola Music School is a moving, funny and enlightening story, showing above all that where there is music, there is life…
Originally released in 2007 under the name Escape from Luanda, here is a chance to see this tender film in HD.
51 minutes
Narrated by Sophie Okonedo
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