In a lost town in the tropics, a ruler banned dances, songs and celebrations. This is how Makondo starts, a performance created by the GKO Orchestra, a band of musicians, dancers and circus actors from different parts of the world. Fait vivir recounts, through Manuk, a five-year-old boy, the legend of this ingenious and unusual […]
Dir, Fabien Pisani Cuba, Mexico 2025 A deeply personal portrait of Cuban music icon Pablo Milanés, captured in self-imposed exile during his final years. Milanés, co-founder of the Nueva Trova movement with Silvio Rodríguez, was a major voice in Cuba's revolutionary cultural movement. This film, directed by his adopted son Fabien Pisani, combines interviews with […]
Dir Juan Carvajal Colombia, USA 2025 ''A brave, sensitive, and necessary attempt to reclaim the living memory of salsa......A sincere and devoted love letter to a music that pulses through the veins of millions''. André Didyme-Dôme ROLLING STONE A vibrant journey through a genre born of Afro-Cuban rhythms—mambo, guaracha, guaguancó—fused with the drive of New […]
