FH Film Festival’s ‘Winter Film Series’ returns
Published 8:35 pm Friday, December 26, 2014
After a successful Second Annual Friday Harbor Film Festival, the organization returns with its Winter Film Series.
Films from the 2014 festival will be screened on the first and third Tuesday of every month at the Grange Hall. Admission is by donation.
The first film of the series, “Following the Ninth,” will be screened Jan. 6, at 7 p.m.
Filmed on 5 continents and in 12 countries, “‘Following The Ninth’” is the story of four people whose lives have been transformed, repaired and healed by the message in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, “Alle Menschen werden Bruder (All People Are Connected).”
At Tienanmen Square in 1989, students played the Ninth over loudspeakers as the army came in to crush their protests for freedom. In Chile, women under the Pinochet dictatorship sang the Ninth at torture prisons, and those inside took hope when they heard the music.
In Japan each December, the ninth is performed hundreds of times, often with 10,000 people in the chorus. Part road trip, part adventure, Following The Ninth is a story about the power of music and human resilience in dark times.
Whether you saw the film at the festival and want to see it again, or if you missed it the last time around now is your chance to watch this compelling story of the power of music.
