Small hands, Big hall
Director Carlos Morelli
Countries Germany
Duration 30 min
Synopsis
After being selected among hundreds of young pianist from Europe and Asia, Antong Zou (11) and Daniel Streicher (7) prepare them self to participate in the 56 Steinway piano competition for kids, at the chamber-music hall in the Philharmonic building in Berlin.
The film follow them trough the last 10 days before the competition until they receive the results, showing how they study with the teacher and at home, alone or with they families.
There are no interviews and everything is shot from a lower perspective (kids size). During the 30´ of the film we can see this kids, coming from very different cultural back grounds (but sheering a city), trying to understand how to play piano in this circumstances: playing in a Grand Piano at the Philharmonic chamber music hall in the Philharmonic building in Berlin.