Festival opening film
Screenings are free but booking is mandatory
https://beirutartfilmfestival.org/booking/
USA/Germany 2013
Director: Kerry Candaele
Screenplay: Kerry Candaele
Director of photography: Christopher Bottoms, Nick Higgins
Editing: Alejandro Valdes-Rochin
Production company: Batte Hymns Productions (Los Angeles), B-SIDE FILMS GmbH (Hamburg)
Producer: Oliver Herder, Ali Eckert, Kerry Candaele
Length: 70 min.
Following the Ninth is a documentary film about the global impact of Beethoven’s final symphony.
Written in 1824, near the end of Beethoven's life, the Ninth Symphony was composed by a man with little to be thankful for. Sick, alienated from almost everyone, and completely deaf, Beethoven had never managed to find love, nor create the family he’d always wanted. And yet, despite this, he managed to create an anthem of joy that embraces the transcendence of beauty over suffering.
Celebrated to this day for its ability to heal, repair, and bring people together across great divides, the Ninth has become an anthem of liberation and hope that has inspired many around the world.
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