AnDa Union: From the Steppes to the City

Documentary following the AnDa Union, a group of young Mongolian musicians who journey 10,000km across China to express the origins of their unique, ancient music.

"The people of Chinese Inner Mongolia make a very particular kind of music, derived from the Mongol tribes that Ghengis Kahn unified. AnDa Union is the contemporary band responsible for creating a global following for these traditional sounds that could have been so easily lost to the world. This film takes us into the lives of the many people who make up the band and the way they discover forgotten music and adapt it into their own style... a rare insight into a forgotten land on the edges of China, and one that may not be able to resist the force of global industrialisation for very much longer." (London Film Festival 2011)

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