THE MUSIC OF STRANGERS: YO-YO MA AND THE SILK ROAD ENSEMBLE  

Berlinale Special

“The intersection of cultures is where new things emerge.”    Yo-Yo Ma, cellist and founder of the Silk Road Ensemble

directed by Morgan Neville Produced by Tremolo Productions in association with Participant Media and The Silk Road Project, USA 2015, 96 min  

From the director of the Oscar®-winning documentary 20 Feet from Stardom and the critically acclaimed Best of Enemies, the new film THE MUSIC OF STRANGERS: YO-YO MA AND THE SILK ROAD ENSEMBLE tells the extraordinary story of the renowned international musical collective created by legendary cellist Yo-Yo Ma. The feature-length documentary follows this group of diverse instrumentalists, vocalists, composers, arrangers, visual artists and storytellers as they explore the power of music to preserve tradition, shape cultural evolution and inspire hope. 

Director Morgan Neville and musicians Cristina Pato (Spain) and Kinan Azmeh (Syria) will be in Berlin and available for interviews on February 15 and February 16 

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