Amin (2010)

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overview : AMIN portrays Qashqai musician Amin Aghaie, a young modern nomad and his family who despite facing steep financial, cultural and political obstacles are dedicated to their art and culture. Amin travels to remote towns and villages to record the music of the surviving masters whose numbers decline each year. His nomadic family are selling their meager belongings to help support their son's education in performance and ethnomusicology at Tchaikovsky's Conservatory in Kyiv, Ukraine, but it is not enough. Amin, desperate to finish his academic education, sells his violins one at a time just to pay for his tuition.

Release Date : Oct 23, 2010

Runtime : 1h 20m

Genre : Documentary Drama Music

Companies : Cinemashena

Countries : Canada, Iran, South Korea, Ukraine

Keywords : middle east, violinist, nomad, kyiv (kiev), ukraine, ethnographic film, 2000s, classical musician, biographical, republic of turkey