Sempre Dharma
An intimate celebration, like a family gathering where the truth comes out, right in the midst of preparing for the 50th-anniversary concert of Companyia Elèctrica Dharma. More than just a band, it’s a musical tribe of friends and brothers who skillfully blended traditional Catalan music, jazz, and rock at countless local festivities and corners around […]
MaQKina: Historia de una Subcultura
A passionate, emotional, musical and sociological ode to Mákina music. Tracing its roots in the eclectic and avant-garde Valencian scene to its emergence in the 1990s in Catalonia, where, in iconic clubs like Psicódromo, Chasis, Scorpia, Pont Aeri and X-Què?, the genre cranked up the BPMs, changed the ‘Q’ for a ‘K’, and became a […]
Fernanda y Bernarda
Fernanda, with her soul-stirring soleá, and Bernarda, renowned for her powerful bulería: these inseparable sisters were two of the most remarkable flamenco cantaoras in history, unmatched artists of the deepest gypsy music. This documentary embarks on a journey from Utrera to Madrid (delving into the emotional turmoil this move brought to their family), and from […]
Break Nation
An energetic and immersive journey through the 1990s electronic music scene in Andalusia, Spain, where breakbeat was the heartbeat of a generation. Presented as a musical road trip brimming with archive footage, this documentary delves into the inception of this cultural phenomenon, the pioneering party promoters, the rise of DJ celebrities and radio stations, and […]
Riqueni
The shocking battle of the master of flamenco guitar Rafael Riqueni to get out of the death in life of alcoholism and his fragile mental health. Along with director Paco Bech’s friendly hand, we witness that decade of relapses, internments and human generosity and his unlikely resurrection –crossing paths with Estrella Morente, Rocío Molina and […]
Revolutionary Quartet, l’enigma Gerhard
Catalunya’s Robert Gerhard was one of the most remarkable and mysterious composers of the twentieth century, still relatively unknown due to his exile in England and because part of his work remains to be discovered. This insightful review of his life and work deciphers the depth and idiosyncrasy –between the popular and the avant-garde– of […]
La importancia de llamarse Ernesto y la gilipollez de llamarse Eric
The parallel stories of Ernesto Jiménez Linares from Granada and his musical alter ego Eric, drummer of Lagartija Nick and Los Planetas. Falange, Holy Week processions, punk, a teenage wedding, drug binges and Enrique Morente parade –amid plenty of rogue humor– through the journey of a guy who has beaten the drums for 40 years […]
Tequila: Sexo, Drogas y Rock & Roll
The story of the legendary five-piece led by Argentineans Ariel Roth and Alejo Estivel that made a whole generation of young people let rip with rock and roll in the town square during the years of the Transition. How they hit the big time based on Chuck Berry riffs, “stonian” looks, cocky attitudes and a […]
Sintiéndolo mucho
For 13 years, Fernando León de Aranoa (director of El buen patrón, Los lunes al sol and Barrio) has followed Joaquín Sabina with his camera, portraying the singer-songwriter, poet and painter in the privacy of his daily life as well as in rehearsals and tours, in Mexico, Argentina, Madrid and his native Úbeda. A stroll […]
No callarem
Hasta 18 raperos han sido condenados a penas de cárcel en el Estado Español a causa de sus letras. Este alegato a favor de la libertad de expresión y en contra de la represión judicial examina de cerca los casos personales de Alex “Elgio” de la Insurgencia (tres años de inhabilitación), Josep “Valtònyc” (más de […]