Waldo
In March 1977, Waldo de los Ríos, the composer of ‘A Song of Joy’, was found dead with two shotgun blasts to the face. This film deciphers the secrets behind the public figure of the Argentine pianist, composer, and orchestra conductor who had been living in Spain since the 1960s. Private films, photos, letters, and […]
La Marsellesa de los borrachos
A film crew travels the roads and villages of northern Spain. They follow the clandestine journey of the Italian ethnomusicologists Cantacronache, who in the summer of 1961, during the fascist dictatorship, collected popular resistance songs: the voices of workers, intellectuals, and peasants. Now, through oral history, the original tapes and photos of that expedition, and […]
La guitarra flamenca de Yerai Cortés
Directorial debut of Antón Álvarez, better known as C. Tangana in his musical career. This film, starring Yerai Cortés, revolves around a family secret that must be revealed. Cast: Yerai Cortés, María Merino de Paz, Miguel Cortés, Tania Garcia, Antón Álvarez
Cyborg Generation
An 18-year-old musician decides to design a cybernetic organ and find a surgeon willing to implant it, despite the illegal nature of the procedure. In doing so, he aims to acquire a new sense that will allow him to translate the subatomic particles in the atmosphere into musical notes for composition. The documentary follows his […]
Zambra
An immersion into the history and cultural contribution of Sacromonte, focusing on the ‘zambras’, the legendary flamenco gatherings of the gypsies in this neighborhood of Granada. Weaving together past and present, with the expertise of a folk celebrity like Curro Albaicín, the insightful gaze of French photographer Jacques Leonard, and intense performances in iconic scenarios, […]
Prohibido ganar Eurovisión
The tumultuous trajectory of D’Nash, the boy band that represented Spain in Eurovision in 2007 and has been erased from official history. The tension with Spain’s public television broadcaster over creative control regarding the song, the team, the music video, and the choreography, coupled with the feeling of abandonment in terms of promotion and stage […]
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 […]