Sold My Soul to Rock & Roll
With a focus on indie and punk rock, this collection of documentary and feature films illustrates the beauty – and sometimes danger – of losing oneself too deeply in the music, or art, and brings us up-close to some of the obsessive personalities who create it.
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The Taqwacores
Directed by Eyad Zahra • Drama • With Bobby Naderi, Noureen DeWulf, Dominic Rains • 2010 • 83 minutes
Yusef, a first-generation Pakistani engineering student, moves off-campus with a group of Muslim punks in Buffalo, New York. His new “unorthodox” housemates soon introduce him to Taqwacore - a h...
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East Punk Memories
Directed by Lucile Chaufour • Documentary • 2012 • 79 minutes
"You're just a street kid, you'll never be a Party Secretary!"
"Maybe you don't even exist, you don't want this life anymore!"
"Communist drug, no seduction needed!"
When the Hungarian punk band QSS launched into their anthemic son...
