2007
April 2007
Tuesday 24 April 2007
Tue 24 Apr. 96 Second Street, Newport, 02903. 401-861-4445, info@film-festival.org. Rhode Island International Film Festival - [events]
APRIL 24th ROGER Williams University, ONE OLD FERRY ROAD, Bristol (401) 253-1040 Whose is this Song?" (70 mins) Directed by Adela Peeva, Bulgaria/Balkans A song plays in a restaurant where the filmmaker, herself Bulgarian, is having dinner with a Greek, a Serb, a Turk and a Macedonian. They all know the words and sing along - in their own language. Whose song is it? The filmmaker is convinced it's a Bulgarian song. The incident sets her off on a humorous, offbeat journey through the Balkans to unearth the origins of the haunting melody. The song itself was transformed as it moved through the Balkans, from love song to military march to religious hymn to revolutionary anthem. Each group claims the song as its own, insisting that only they could have compos