The Mizmorim Chamber Music Festival, which takes place in Basel from January 29 to February 2, 2025, is dedicated to the human theme of exile: 120 million people worldwide are on the run, 1.5% of the world's population are displaced persons. Jews have always been confronted with exile, emigration, diaspora, and galut (the forced life outside the "Promised Land" of Israel). Under the guiding principle of exile, Mizmorim presents around 30 artists and ensembles, two world premieres and several Swiss premieres.
The film program opens up a view of a little-known side of exile: composers expelled from Europe—such as Kurt Weill, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, and Ernst Toch—played a decisive role in shaping the sound of early Hollywood cinema. Musicologist Heidy Zimmermann and historian Erik Petry comment on selected film examples such as “Robin Hood”(1938), “Plan for Destruction” (1943) and “Escape from the Taiga”(1967).
Tickets are CHF15.

Website
mizmorim.com/programms/fluchtpunkt-film

Where
Stadtkino Basel
Klostergasse 5
4051 Basel

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