Synopsis

The musician and composer Fortunat Frölich is traveling to Morocco with a Swiss choir. He plans to perform the intercultural project "Sing oh Wave" in Rabat, together with the Choeur du Maroc and their director Sanae El Amri. Fortunat Frölich puts two songs in the center of a composition, which combines polyphonic songs of the Swiss minority of the Rumantsch with ornamentations and quarter tones of the unisonous Moroccan songs. Each song praises a river – on the one hand the river Inn, which has its source in the Swiss mountains in the Engadine valley and on the other hand the river Bouregreg, which reaches the Mediterranean Sea in Rabat. Just as the lyrics in the songs reveal the cultural differences, the encounter of the two choirs shows, that Swiss and Moroccan conventions don't merge without any attrition.

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  Protagonists

  Fortunat Frölich

  Sanae El Amri

  choR inteR kultuR

  Choeur du Maroc

  Written and directed by

  Sarah Derendinger

  1. Director of photography

  Aladin Hasic

  2. Director of photography

  Sarah Derendinger

  Sound

  Jean-Pierre Gerth

  Assistant director

  Martin Cantieni

  Producer

  Hercli Bundi

  Production manager

  Peter Zwierko  

  Assistant producers

  Philippe Favre

  Ulla Wentenschuh

  Vera Kovac

  Producers Marocco

  Hicham Hajji

  Mohamed Ouaglou

  Editing and mixing

  Manfred Zazzi

  Color-grading

  EgliFilm

  Original music

  Chanta O Unda

  Komposition Fortunat Frölich

  Editor SRF

  Anita Hugi

  Urs Augstburger

  With support of

  Swisslos Kulturförderung Kanton Graubünden

  Teleproduktions-Fonds GmbH

  Ernst Göhner Stiftung

  Succès Passage Antenne

  Biblioteca Engiadinaisa

  Corporaziun dals cumüns concessiunaris da las OEE

  Maroc Culture