Documentary on Recorder Players in India Up For Awards

Souffles Croisés (Inspire the Recorders)

At the Volontariat de Pondicherry in India, four children discover the recorder thanks to Anne-Marie Paillard (d. Oct 2021), who devoted 14 years of her life to teaching them music. Twenty years later, Nathalie Houtman and Laura Pok, recorder players too, retrace their extraordinary journey. A moving and optimistic documentary that testifies to the universality of music beyond cultural barriers. The film was selected by HEFFI (Helsinki Education Film Festival International 2019), Indie Visions film festival, DMOFF (Direct Monthly Online Film Festival), Kalaburagi International Short Film Festival, FFA (Florence Film Awards) and JIFF (Jamaica International Faith Film Festival), is a semi-finalist at the FilmArte festival in Madrid and won the "Best Educational Film” award at the WUIFF (White Unicorn International Film Festival), as well as the Best International Short Length Documentary award at the International Documentary Festival Ierapetra. 
[On YouTube, 39:53 minutes, English subtitles, occasionally in English as spoken in India]

Learn more: https://en.laterna-magica.be/inde
Watch the movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=N-h0lR6asZw&t=4s
Read about filmmakers Natalie Houtman and Laura Pok: https://en.laterna-magica.be/cv-des-musiciens