Music

A documentary about the legendary transgender club The Way Out in London and its founder, Vicky Lee. As the club celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2023, we look back at the last 3 decades in the London trans scene, discovering the club's impact on the transgender community as a safe and unique...

The lyrics of Pablo Hasel, Valtònyc and Elgio have not only been condemned by an unjust and vindictive judicial system, but have also been victims of a media tactic that presents them as criminals and "enemies of democracy". This film addresses their cases from a personal and artistic perspective, showing the experiences that have led them to be political victims of reprisals as well as the consequences that this repression has affected their lives, whether due to disqualification, exile or...

Coque Malla became famous at the age of sixteen leading the band Los Ronaldos, but when they dissolved, he found himself at the age of 30 and having to start from scratch with everything against...

The story of young rappers from Bedstuy, a neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, known to have been both the epicenter of the crack epidemic in the United States and the birthplace of the greatest African-American hip-hop figures and rappers (Jay-Z, Lil Kim, Notorious BIG, Kanye West, etc.). These young rappers want to follow the footsteps of their elders and role models, trying to escape the violence of the streets, the guns, the arbitrary arrests, and the death of African Americans who now...

An ode to music, this invisible abstract and fleeting sequence of sounds that creates in the brain the same reaction as chocolate, sex or drugs. Conceived as a cinematographic wave, this documentary essay takes us from Canada to Italy via Sweden, Mexico and the American West Coast to meet fascinating scientists and artists who, from their various backgrounds, illustrate our essential connection with rhythm, music, our planet, the brain, daily lives and our collective...

Aleixo Paz A.K.A. "Boy from the Blaze" is the survivor of a tragic accident that destroyed his life and that of his family. About to turn 18, without a job or an education, he spends his days in the darkness of his room. Consumed by pain and anger, his only hope is writing songs for an imaginary crowd. Inspired by a friend and encouraged by his mother, he will find the strength to go on stage and overcome his...

Mothers of Derick portrays the daily life of these four women who, together, raise Derick, a nine-year-old boy. The four women – lesbians, bisexuals, non-monogamists and anarchists – built a house to raise their child in a forest on Brazil's southern coast, despite threats of expulsion by the...

10th grade student Melisa confronts her teacher during a literature exam. In front of all her classmates, Melisa questions the school system and the usefulness of what they are studying by asking a very uncomfortable...

In the private farm, a butterfly is born only to be sold as a prop for a concert. Its journey to the music hall reflects the struggle to survive in the modern-day...

The story of Ara Malikian, multifaceted violinist of Lebanese origin and Armenian roots. The film portrays his professional trajectory and personal story. Music saved his life when he escaped the war. He left Beirut when he was only 14 and ever since then, has lived a nomadic life, bringing his music to all the...

Bruno is an evangelical priest who travels from Peru to Buenos Aires after his church mysteriously burned down. There he must work for ¨El Diego¨, an old friend from his distant past. However, Diego gradually introduces him into the world of drug trafficking and dancing nights. If he wants to stay at his job, and help his family, Bruno must make a crucial...

Petitet is a former percussionist and Barcelona gypsy whose father was one of the first back-up musicians for the legendary Peret. In a promise to his dying mother, Petitet said he would take her to see Catalan rumba played on the stage of the Liceu, Barcelona's grand opera house. Now, if he's to keep that promise, Petitet will have to bring together over twenty - excellent, but undisciplined - gypsy musicians and pull off the miracle of them playing together with… a symphony...

At the Basque Culinary Center, 5 young talented students of cutting-edge gastronomy from all over the world will go back to the past to create the menu Bihar dok 13. They will travel to 1966 to discover the decade that would change everything in Basque culture. With five special events, we will discover the movements Gaur, Ez dok amairu and the spiritual father of the BCC, the Basque Nouvelle Cuisine. The “Bihar dok amairu” menu prepared by the young chefs will be served during a special...

A bohemian singer/artist becomes a father to his five-year-old niece when his sister's mental health deteriorates, and finds himself awkwardly balancing fairy tales and playtime with his rowdy nightlife and provocative...

This documentary aims to recover the memory of the genius Narciso Yepes, not only as a great guitar player but as an extraordinary...

A portrait of the performance poet Umar Bin Hassan and his personal struggle with the revolution he propagated himself with The Last Poets. As a member of The Last Poets he was a major influence on later hip-hop artists. Scared of Revolution concentrates on Hassan’s personal life, in which he still fights his demons. “Deep inside, Umar was scared of the revolution himself,” says fellow member of The Last Poets, Abiodun...

Taking its name from a poem by Marinetti, and with noise as sound material, "Esplendor Geométrico" is the band that inaugurates the age of industrial sound in...

Breoghan's Tower is a transversal creation that is born thanks to the diversity of his different artistic expressions: the music of the Symphonic Orchestra of Galicia and of Luar na Lubre - symphonic and folk- the audiovisual scenography in 3D and the creativity of some authors that inspired in the legends of the celtic mythology, melted under the look of a filmmaker with the personality of Jorge...

St. Agatha’s Eve is a deep-rooted Basque tradition in which people walk from house to house, accompanied by improvised verse-makers (bertsolaris), singing verses to the beating of long sticks. Building on this celebration, bertsolari Maialen Lujanbio composes a stark denunciation of gender violence. In verse after verse, she condemns the different manifestations of sexist violence and our inability to combat it. Based on these couplets, twenty young artists direct a collective-created piece,...

The King of Rock and Roll its a documentary that shows the process of making a record. ¿How a record is made? ¿How do musicians write songs? ¿What is the work of those involved? Follow the artist Paul Zinnard in the making of his last album while musicians and people from music envelope such as Mike Watt or Ariel Rot explain the whole...

Irene is a teenager who lives with her mother, Pilar, and her grandma, Mari?a, in a flat in a humble neighborhood. One day, Mari?a begins to behave strangely: she seems much happier than usual, makes a lot of jokes and tells weird stories of youth about rock tours, excesses and groupies... Until she finally declares: “I’m Ringo...

This is the story of a trip with a special focus on “La Maestro”, the only guitar designed by Paco de Lucía and created for his friend and luthier Antonio Morales. An isolated Spanish guitar after the sudden dead of the greatest musical genius Spanish. 9 countries, 12 towns, 2 continents, 34,412...

The documentary record of the first edition of the Ketevan World Sacred Music Festival, held in Goa (India) is transformed in these frames into a celebration of what music unites and distinguishes as cultural...

“It was visionary, the awakening of a new era”, says Amha Eshete, the Ethiopian musical producer in the days of Swingin’Addis, the golden age. Recordings made between the 50s and the 80s, the Ethiopian music publications that crossed borders; while the contemporary musical scene of Addis Ababa remains practically unknown to the world. Music in Addis Ababa expresses everyday life and the processes of transformation in the city. This documentary explores this musical vitality as it observes...

A journey through the life and work of José Luis Romanillos, spanish self-taught guitar builder. He emigrates to England looking for a job and there, following manual instructions, he manages to make his first guitar. Back in Spain after retirement, he introduces us to the old art of guitar construction. Possibly, we have attended the last guitar that has come out of his hands, which celebrates the 50 years of his life with...

Kids and Music is a project arising from a music class. Conducted by Joan Chamorro, the big band brings together children between 6 and 18 years old, around a classic jazz repertoire with lots of swing, which gained the public and sold-out some of the most important music auditoriums in...

Since 1934, the well-worn stage at The Apollo Theater has been one of the world's greatest launching pads for phenomenal talent, catapulting the likes of James Brown and Ella Fitzgerald to international stardom. Thousands of contestants audition each year, with the hopes of facing the famously mean Apollo audience, described "like a bunch of pit bulls eating raw meat." Judged by the length of their cheers — or the depths of their boos — these contestants put more than their pride on the...