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The acclaimed pianist performs several pieces in concert at the invitation of Prince Charles. The intermission features a 25-minute documentary on Horowitz's life and career.

A young woman returns home from school disillusioned with life only to find solace in a high school freshman and a local burnout.

A concert pianist gets caught in a love triangle with two college students.

Kate (Charlotte Rampling) and Geoff Mercer (Sir Tom Courtenay) are planning to celebrate their 45th wedding anniversary with dozens of friends. The event is to take place soon in the community hall of Norwich, the town near which they live. A week before the party, Geoff receives a letter which, although he tries to hide it, obviously troubles him. When his wife asks him what is going on, Geoff tells her that the body of Katya, his first great love who disappeared fifty years before in the Alps, has just been found in a melting glacier. From then on, Geoff starts behaving more and more strangely and for the first time after so many years Kate asks herself who the man she married so long ago really is.

Chilly Gonzales is a Grammy-winning composer, virtuoso pianist and entertainer. Criss-crossing between rap, electro and solo piano music, he became the outrageous pop performer who invited himself to the ivory tower of classical music. The eccentric artist inspires and collaborates with the likes of Feist, Jarvis Cocker, Peaches, Daft Punk and Drake. Change seems to be the only constant in Gonzales' journey. Every time his audience thinks it has finally figured him out, he makes a radical move and breaks with its expectations. The cinematic documentary Shut Up And Play The Piano follows Gonzales from his native Canada to late 90's underground Berlin, and via Paris to the world's great philharmonic halls. It dives deep into the dichotomy of Gonzales' stage persona, where self-doubt and megalomania are just two sides of the same coin. The playfulness of his character is mirrored in the look of the film. Using Gonzales' extensive video archive in a rather unorthodox manner, Shut Up And Play The Piano explores his persona by interweaving newly shot interviews and concert scenes with fictional materials of totally different time periods. Reality and fiction blur together as we embark on a trip through Chilly Gonzales' world.

As interim school superintendent Eve trims budgets, and now she's in her hometown where it's personal. Her handsome neighbor Liam is a music teacher and Eve feels his program must be cut. But luckily her friend is married to an IT guy, who's created a website for donations directly to save the Arts program. Launched during the tree lighting ceremony, where Liam's students will perform, the website could provide the Christmas miracle the town needs. Already the Universe is cooperating. Eve is back home and she, Liam and his daughter look like they might be celebrating many a future Christmas.

Just before reaching the pinnacle of fame and freshly arrived in New York from Russia, Veronica happily gives up her career as a pianist to raise her son. Despite constant pressures from her husband Paul, a French stockbroker, she retreats into an indefinite hiatus from performing while fully enjoying her role as a mother. But without a salary or an independent work identity, Veronica's dependency on Paul grows and a sense of personal dislocation sets in. The question of going back on stage arises more painfully when she meets Amanda, an alluring, promising, and younger pianist from Paris, who soon falls for Paul.

Through a one in a million chance, the sunny and bright Yang Chu Mo gains admission to the prestigious Xing Chen Music Academy where she meets Mu Liu Nian. Yang Chu Mo recognizes him as the boy next door whom she had a crush on when she was younger. She plays a song for him in an attempt to get him to remember her, but he balks at hearing her music. As it turns out, Yang Chu Mo's piano skills are terribly lacking while Mu Liu Nian has an obsessive-compulsive disorder when it comes to music. Determined to win the prize money for a competition, Yang Chu Mo tries to get Mu Liu Nian to be her partner but he rejects her outright. Nonetheless, Yang Chu Mo decides to relay her feelings through the piano.

Owen Benjamin is a comedian and actor, best known for his hilarious blend of stand-up and musical comedy.

For her feature debut, Michaela Pavlátová drew upon Slovak author Tina Diosi's psychological story of a mutual search for marital harmony. The film sketches a story of a pianist named Eva (Zuzana Stivínová) who follows her husband, the musician and composer Peter (Peter Bebjak), to a small village near the Slovak-Hungarian border. While Peter is grateful for the peace and quiet he finds there for composing, Eva looks in vain for a chance to play, and feels separated not only from her family but also from familiar Prague surroundings and friends.

Dr. Lucio Fulci is a director of splatter films. He stages a gestapo-orgy like it was any other movie scene. But he is influenced by these things more than he likes. He is hunted by bloody visions day by day. Is Fulci still normal? He asks a psychiatrist. He doesn't know that the psychiatrist has much bigger problems than Fulci himself. The psychiatrist then uses Fulci's visions for brutal murders in real life as an attempt to frame him.