Gogol Bordello Non-Stop

Gogol Bordello Non-Stop is a 2008 music documentary film, written and directed by Margarita Jimeno and starring Gogol Bordello and Eugene Hütz.

Synopsis
Chronicles the notorious live band Gogol Bordello and front man Eugene Hütz, a gypsy-punk Ukrainian immigrant. Includes footage of raucous gigs from 2001 to 2007, as the band begins in dingy basement venues and eventually gains fame on international stages.

Critical response
“In Gogol Bordello Non-Stop Eugene Hutz emerges as a passionate, articulate philosopher of punk’s democratic participatory aesthetic who espouses the rejection of social hierarchies in concerts that are raucous, bacchanalian performance-art carnivals.” — Stephen Holden, The New York Times


 * New York Times Review
 * New York Post Review
 * Village Voice Review
 * IFC Review

Awards

 * 2009: BEST FILM AWARD MUSIXINE Finland

“Margarita managed to not only portray a band, but also the social aspects of being an immigrant and taking the responsibility to play with identities. Also the film is fresh, enjoyable and punk". The Jury
 * The jury consisted of three members; Johannes Klein, the head of the Jury and the International Programming Coordinator of the In Edit International Music Documentary and Film Festival in Barcelona; Jouko Aaltonen, a Finnish director specialising in documentaries and Laura M. Kiralfy, a manager of Filmkontakt Nord Nordisk Forum for Co-Financing of Documentaries during Nordisk Panorama 5 Cities Film Festival.


 * 2008: AUDIENCE AWARD MOFFOM, Czech Republic
 * 2008: SOUND AND VISION AWARD, SPECIAL MENTION CPH:DOX Denmark

2009

 * 5th Ambulante, Mexico
 * 7th Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, USA
 * 16th Noise Pop Film Festival, USA
 * 16th Titanic Film Festival, Hungary
 * 14th Vilnius International Film Festival, Lithuania
 * Rockumentary Groove – revija rock dokumentaraca, Croatia
 * DORF Vinkovci, Croatia
 * 40th Nashville Film Festival, USA
 * Sensoria, England
 * Doc Aviv, Israel
 * Big Rivers Film festival, The Netherlands
 * Musixine Competition, Oulu Finland
 * Raindance, London, England
 * Bergen International Film Festival, Bergen Norway
 * Easternxpress Film Festival, Uppsala, Sweden
 * Rolling Film Festival Pristina. Serbia
 * Shoot me, The Hague, The Netherlands
 * Rokumentti, Helsinki Finland
 * Molodist, Kiev Ukrania
 * Cinemania, Sofia Bulgaria
 * In-Edit, Santiago Chile

2008

 * 31st Göteborg International Film Festival, Sweden
 * 26th Filmfest München, Germany
 * 35th Ghent International Film Festival, Belgium
 * 22nd AFI Fest, USA
 * 21st Helsinki International Film Festival, Finland
 * 5th Music on Film Film on Music, Czech republic
 * 5th CPH:DOX Copenhagen, Denmark
 * 21st Exground Film Festival, Germany
 * European Social Forum Malmo, Sweden
 * International Film Festival Bratislava, Slovakia