Dixieland: Little Kids Big Dreams (2015)
• September 15th, 2015 • 1h 1min
Documentary
Overview
Little kids, big dreams and smashingly good music – Dixieland follows the amazing progress of four members of a Ukrainian children’s brass band from Kherson. Through steady practice under the wildest of conditions, Roman (12, trumpet), Polina (10, trombone, drums and many other instruments), Nikita (12, drums) and Nikita (14, piano) produce magical music with ancient, wobbly instruments. Not least due to their wit and good humor, they persevere together, helped along by their 80+-year-old conductor and a young teacher. These children of the post-Soviet provinces use American tunes to achieve their dream – to become someone in the world and make something of their lives, no matter how dire the circumstances. From the authors of an awards winning documentary film Ukrainian Sheriffs.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Mustafa's Sweet Dreams
Released on: 2012-02-14
Documentary
The small Turkish town of Gaziantep. 16-year-old Mustafa is one of many young boys who study the com...
Les enfants de Val d’Europe
Released on: 2025-09-01
Documentary
Les enfants de Val d'Europe studies and depicts the youth of Val d'Europe, a new town located 35 ki...
The Long Shift
Released on: 2014-12-05
Documentary
A small town ice hockey team fights through their first season in an upper division. The players' dr...
Hit Him on the Head with a Hard Heavy Hammer
Released on: 2023-09-09
Documentary
Hit Him on the Head with a Hard, Heavy Hammer departs from the handwritten memoir of the filmmaker’s...
The Happiest Man on Earth
Released on: 2019-03-29
Documentary
A lonely 40-year-old man sits on the balcony of a Finnish apartment building. Joonas Berghäll has le...
The Cry of Jazz
Released on: 1959-03-22
Documentary, Music
Filmed in Chicago & finished in 1959, The Cry of Jazz is filmmaker, composer and arranger Edward...
Solo en un día
Released on: 2016-11-18
Documentary
Madrid, Spain, June 30th, 2016. Rafael and José Luis jam a crazy one-day trip in search of the city'...
Sherwood Park
Released on: 2024-12-31
Documentary
Reclaiming what was once stolen from him, a man journeys back to the place of his childhood nearly 8...
Lullabye for a Storm
Released on: 2013-04-24
Documentary
"Tungkung Langit" is a title that refers to the god in the Panay epic whose tears become rain, but i...
Leonie, Skeet and the piglets
Released on: 2023-11-03
Documentary
Leonie’s dream is to become a pig farmer, just like her parents. She wanders happily around the farm...
The Beginning of Life 2: Outside
Released on: 2020-11-12
Documentary
Genuine connections between children and nature can revolutionize our future. But is this discovery ...
Cold Trumpet
Released on: 1963-01-01
Documentary, Music, Adventure
Chet Baker silently wanders through an Antonioniesque landscape in a Felliniesque state of wondermen...
Father
Released on: 2020-11-08
Documentary, Drama
The director's grandfather is a blind fortune teller and his father a real-estate owner. They have g...
Las mañanitas
Released on: 2025-01-27
Documentary
Writing a letter to Paul B. Preciado, trans philosopher and filmmaker, as one would write to a frien...
André Brasilier: Where dreams come from
Released on: 2023-05-04
Documentary
This documentary is a touching and intimate portrait of André Brasilier, both as a man and as an art...
Gods of Molenbeek
Released on: 2019-08-09
Documentary
The district of Molenbeek-Saint-Jean in Brussels has become world-famous as a center of jihadism, bu...
Peixes Vivos
Released on: 2023-08-24
Documentary
Thamirys and Raphael are filming the short film "Peixe Vivo", starring their children Agatha and Gus...
Touch the sky
Released on: 2012-10-02
Documentary
This documentary follows the founder of Cirque du Soleil, Guy Laliberte, as he makes his way to the ...
Grete, la mirada oblicua
Released on: 2016-04-28
Documentary
Grete Stern decided to be a photographer. Then she also decided to be Argentinian. Those two choices...