20th Anniversary Re-Release Edition - in high definition for the first time ever!

Though this is the highest resolution digital version of Genghis Blues that's ever been available, this is NOT a pristine restoration of the film. This "re-master" gives audiences an experience as close to the original, gritty, grainy theatrical presentations as possible. 
The 20th Anniversary Edition of Genghis Blues was created from an original film print that screened to sold-out audiences around the world two decades ago: analog, imperfect and glorious.

Critics called Genghis Blues:
The stuff of moviemaking legend!   ~ Banning Eyre - The Boston Phoenix
"Utterly irresistable!"   ~ Andy Klein - New Times Los Angeles
Wonderful! Thumbs Up!   ~ Roger Ebert - Siskel & Ebert
Highly entertaining...profoundly moving!   ~ Rod Dreher - New York Post

 In 1984, blind American bluesman Paul Pena heard something on the shortwave radio that would change his life forever. It was the sounds of one person singing three notes simultaneously. Pena had played with the greats B.B. King, John Lee Hooker and T. Bone Walker, but he'd never heard anything like this. He recorded the radio broadcast and spent the next ten years teaching himself the technique of what he would later discover is called "khoomei," or "throat-singing."

When singers from the birthplace of throat-singing, the remote lost land of Tuva deep in Siberia, came to America for the first time, they met Pena. Awed by his singing abilities, the Tuvans invited Pena to their homeland for a throat-singing competition. Despite Pena's talent and experience, nothing could have prepared him for what he would experience on his epic journey to Tuva.
From Wadi Rum Films

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