Forbidden Music

Forbidden Music2025


The documentary explores the extraordinary lives of Kwakwaka’wakw Chief Mungo Martin and Jewish ethno-musicologist Ida Halpern. Their combined efforts nearly 75 years ago led to preventing hundreds of First Nations songs from being lost forever. They not only shared a deep dedication to preserving the embedded cultural knowledge that these songs held, they had also experienced the heart-wrenching effects of cultural genocide on their people.

Released
26. 4. 2026
Runtime
70 min
Genres
Documentary
Certification
NO
Country, language
CA · EN