Googoosh: Made of Fire
Genres
Overview
On stage since she was a toddler, Googoosh has been an icon of Iranian pop culture since the 1970s. Her progressive style and raw singing talent attracted worldwide acclaim and saw her performing alongside the likes of Tina Turner and Ray Charles. But the star's career came to an abrupt halt after the Islamic Revolution, which banned women from singing in public. Googoosh was placed under house arrest, where she remained for the next two decades. Niloufar Taghizadeh's documentary, which includes interviews with the charismatic singer (now in her seventies, but still performing and advocating for women and girls) and arresting archival footage, offers both a loving portrait of a national icon and a fascinating historical and cultural record of Iran.
Details
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
Runtime
94 min
Release Date
2024-10-10
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Vote Count
1
Vote Average
5.5
Googoosh
Self
0.0
Kathleen Battle and Jessye Norman Sing Spirituals at Carnegie Hall
A filmed concert of two famed sopranos.
1990-01-01 | en
0.0
The Spark
Leo, Francisca and Lara have just finished high school. Faced with an uncertain future, they spend their last summer together cycling through the streets of Córdoba while searching for a lost cassette of their favorite rock band.
2024-04-21 | es
6.0
Enrique Morente: flamenco impuro
Enrique Morente's three sons tell the story of their father: the most revolutionary flamenco in history. Despite criticism from purists, he opened cante jondo to cultured poetry, brought it closer to young university students, explored its Arab roots and paired it with rock and other contemporary sounds. Much of the Spanish music of the last decades is heir to his findings.
2021-11-24 | es
0.0
Forbidden Songs of the Earth
One song traces a pathway from oral poet and Mazatec shaman Maria Sabina's tradition to Mazatec rapper Xéti NdáJnio and Medicine woman Zara Monrroy, also a poet, rapper and dancer from the Comcaac Nation. Two stories of indigenous rappers struggling to sing in their mother tongue.
2023-11-24 | es
0.0
Takanaka – Super Live 2022 - Saudade 40th Anniversary
2022 marks 40 years since the release of the album “SAUDADE” (September 1982). With producer Narada Michael Walden and guest appearances by T.M. Stevens and Sheila E, this is a masterpiece of fusion that topped the album charts at the time.
2023-07-26 | ja
0.0
Salad Days
Set in a small town suburb, a pathological lying teen, Max, tries to win over his crush Lindsey by inviting her to a concert that has yet to exist. After his band band mates suddenly quit and Max realizes his inability to write music, he is left with deceptively recruiting his broken hearted friend, Greg, to write for him. But when Greg tries to to get back with his girlfriend and realizes what Max has done to him, they must put aside their differences in order to push their music careers and relationships forward.
2019-08-10 | en
10.0
Of Mice & Men - Live At Brixton
The California metalcore gods tear it up in London.
2016-05-27 | en
0.0
Psalm 121 (iShiviti)
An animated short set to a Moroccan Jewish recitation of Psalm 121
2007-09-30 | he
0.0
The Magic of Spirituals
Glimpse behind the curtain at opera legends Kathleen Battle and Jessye Norman’s famed concert at Carnegie Hall on March 18, 1990, featuring performance clips and new interviews with opera star Angel Blue, Met Opera General Manager Peter Gelb, and more.
2023-02-24 | en
10.0
Revés
The portrait of a world in reverse, a society of different tonalities and shades. Aspiration as a refuge from systematization.
1999-07-20 | es
0.0
The Voice That Rocked America: The Dick Biondi Story
THE VOICE THAT ROCKED AMERICA is an one-hour documentary about Top 40 radio personality Dick Biondi. Dick's powerful connection with his audience has endured for decades, and the bands he promoted have never forgotten his generosity. Dick's story will be told through archival photos and footage, recreations, and interviews with recording artists, broadcasters, fans, friends and Dick Biondi himself. The film is narrated by Pam, whose life was changed when she met her teenage idol.
2023-05-21 | en
0.0
Russification in pop style
A documentary about how Russia has been using popular culture as a weapon against Ukraine for decades. Together with industry participants, the film's narrator, musician Albert Tsukrenko, explores the financial, political and psychological reasons for the vulnerability of Ukrainian artists and reflects on how to break this vicious circle. Unfortunately, our own Ukrainian talents are becoming the ammunition in this weapon. Several generations of original Ukrainian musicians at different times in the 1970s and 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, and 2010s switched from Ukrainian to Russian in their work. Whether willingly or unwittingly, they became tools of Russian show business, which has always sought to blur the cultural border between Russia and Ukraine and worked to promote the imperial myth of "one nation".
2024-03-31 | uk
5.2
JVG-elokuva: Vuodet ollu tuulisii
Documentary about Finnish rap-duo JVG. In addition to the unprecedented video footage recorded over a ten-year period, the film features JVG and the background influencers, family members, and friends who built its story.
2022-03-25 | fi
0.0
Roots In The Wind
In 1979, after the Soviet Union attacked Afghanistan, millions of Afghans were forced to leave their homeland to save their lives, and in the meantime, a huge wave of them immigrated to Iran.
| en
0.0
Boxcutter
After his laptop is stolen, an aspiring rapper goes on a quest across the gentrifying streets of Toronto to find his music in time for the event that could change his life - a meeting with a Grammy Award-winning producer.
2024-09-15 | en
10.0
Yo Creo En El Ruido
2022-12-08 | es
0.0
There Was a Day
2023-08-05 | pt
0.0
VIXX Live Fantasia Utopia
VIXX Live Fantasia — Utopia is the second solo concert and world tour by South Korean boy band, VIXX.
2015-10-01 | ko
8.0
The Weeknd: 103.5 Dawn FM
Live performance broadcast of The Weeknd's album Dawn FM.
2022-01-07 | en
0.0
Der verborgene Schatz - Die legendäre Kunstsammlung des Iran
2017-02-26 | de