Return To Goree / Full Metal Village

RETURN TO GOREE, 2007, Switzerland, 112 min. Grammy-winning musician Youssou N’Dour embarks on a musical journey around the globe, everywhere from Atlanta to Bordeaux. He is accompanied by his friend, a blind pianist, and the duo immerse themselves in the world of gospel and jazz. The film culminates in a concert in Goree, an island off the coast of Senegal once known as the center of the Atlantic slave trade.

FULL METAL VILLAGE, 2007, Germany, Flying Moon Filmproduktion, 90 min. Dir. Sung-Hyung Cho. This documentary explores the Wacken Open Air Festival, a heavy metal concert gathering in a small German town. Every year during the first weekend in August, the quiet town of Schleswig-Holstein becomes a meeting spot for 40,000 heavy metal fans and the bands that they come to support. A curious clash forms between the rural community and the fans as each person in the town is affected in their own singular fashion by the festival.