Iag Bari: Brass on Fire

Dir. Ralf Marschalleck, German, Rumanian, 2002

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Sun 3 February 2008 // 19:30 / Cinema

A vibrant, swinging musical documentary about Romanian Gypsy musicians Fanfara Ciocarlia. Beautiful ear-bursting, award winning roma-road movie.

Iag Bari: Brass on Fire is a vibrant, swinging musical documentary about the Gypsy brass band “Fanfare Ciocărlia” with some insight into how the band came from a small village in the Carpathian mountains of Romania to finally gain international following.

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Fanfare Ciocărlia is a twelve-piece Roma brass band from Romania. The band's instrumental lineup includes trumpets, tenor and baritone horns, tubas, clarinets, saxophones, bass drum and percussion. Since their discovery in 1996, they have played more than thousand concerts in more than 50 countries across the globe.

In 2006, the band won the BBC Radio 3 World Music Award for Europe.

The band plays a cover version of "Born to Be Wild" in the film Borat.

Awards for the film Iag Bari: Brass on Fire

"Best Documentary Award" at the Documentary Festival of Barcelona and Madrid.

"Best Long Documentary Award" on the Roma Festival for TV and Radio Production in Macedonia.

Great film and great music, or how to start playing in weddings in a tiny Romanian village to end up having a documentary about you shown at the Star and Shadow cinema in Newcastle...