Gypsy Music International Festival in Holland

Διεθνές φεστιβάλ τσιγγάνικης μουσικής στην Ολλανδία

Looking for the richness of gypsy music, "World Musicians" goes to Holland. Leonidas Antonopoulos travels to Tilburg for a festival that presents the music traditions connected to gypsies at the main stops of their centuries-long journey. Folk amusement with fakirs and acrobats from Rajastan, India, flamenco from Andalusia, rumba gitana from Barcelona, jazz and swing in the tradition of the great Django Reinhardt, and of course Balkan gypsy music. He also meets with Stephane Caro, the man behind the worldwide success of Taraf de Haidouks from Romania and he visits a gypsy camp, eats and a sings along with them and, just for a while, he experiences a Time of the Gypsies, totally different to established stereotypes.

Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.


Direction: Christos Barbas
Cinematography: Leonidas Antonopoulos
Editing: Constantinos Adraktas
Production: ΕΡΤ ΑΕ / ERT SA (Γιάννης Κόλλιας / Yannis Kollias Ζέφη Τσουκαλά / Zefi Tsoukala) T. +30 210 607 5711-12 F. +30 210 6075 715 ykollias@ert.gr ztsoukala@ert.gr www.ert.gr
Producers: Chronis Pechivanidis
Format: Betacam SP
Color: Color
Production Country: Greece
Production Year: 2005
Duration: 55’

Christos Barbas

Filmography

2017 Geogios Ioakeimoglou
2018 K.P. Cavafy
2020 Salamis 2500 Light Years (short)
2021 Through the Glass, Three Acts