Joan Ximénez el Petitet is a Catalan gypsy who pursues a dream. A former musician now —a percussionist, son of Ramón el Huesos who worked with the mythical singer Peret—, and affected by a rare chronic disease, he wants to accomplish the promise he made to his mother before she died: to celebrate a rumba concert on the stage of the Liceu, a great theater in Barcelona, along with a big symphony orchestra.
El ventilador. Una història de rumba
Explores the life and musical career of Migue Benítez, a key figure of the "garrapatero" sound and co-founder of Los Delinqüentes. Through personal testimonies and archives, this documentary traces his origins in Jerez de la Frontera, his creative process, and the unforgettable impact that his art left on those who shared his path.
Rumba Catalana
Razões Africanas
French-language documentary on the History of Congolese rumba.
Juan Jose Moreno Cuenca, alias the Heifer, is 23 years old and tells his story as a criminal offender from 1 Ocaña Toledo. Fatherless, the offender has his childhood and how everything changed when her mother went to prison.
A bored society girl sets her sights on a dancer in a Broadway show.
In this Pete Smith Specialties short, two professional dancers beautifully demonstrate the rumba and conga while actors humorously display some incorrect techniques for those dances.
The young gypsy Peret and his friend Fidel are owners of an inn frequented by tourists. Peret orders the expansion of the business to a young decorator, who falls madly in love with him. Fifth feature by the Rumelo Peret, built for his brilliance, which here plays the owner of a tourist inn, a gypsy rumba singer whose songs will love both a young woman and her mother. A friendly comedy that has as its background the tourist boom of Spain in the late 1960
Call him a creative genius or just plain wacky. Either way Alfred Yankovic has carved his own brand of comedic parodies, polka medleys, and original songs for the outcast who never fit in.
A group of remote control car racers compete over the course of summer 2021, on different tracks in the South of England, all aiming to be crowned the King.
Mitrice Richardson, a lovely 24 year old African-American woman, was released late at night from the Malibu, California Sheriffs jail after having been detained for not paying her bill at an upscale restaurant. She was described as 'acting crazy' and, in fact, was having a mental crisis. She was released into the mountainous region with no cell, no purse, no ID, no car, no way home and vanished. Eleven months later her remains were found in a desolate Malibu canyon. 'Lost Compassion,' shot from ten days after Mitrice went missing, tells the complex, emotional inside story of the search for Mitrice and struggles with the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department, whose deputies lied about her arrest and likely were involved with her disappearance and murder.
In a convenience store, the door of the storage room is a two-way mirror, reflecting a romantic story of love at first sight.
A filmmaker turns detective to uncover the forgotten story of Li Ling-Ai, the un-credited female producer of KUKAN, an Academy Award-winning color documentary about World War II China that has been lost for decades.
Selfie is a pop culture in Hong Kong. Other than entertaining oneself, taking selfie can be an artistic work of personal photography. In general, people have negative feelings towards selfie, but it does carry alternative and in-depth meanings such as capture the moment and understanding oneself.
Adelene Koh, one of the few, if not the only, local hand bookbinders in Singapore. In her words, “Making books is an art. Nothing beats holding a book in your hand, feeling its cover, turning its pages and even smelling the paper. When you write or draw into a journal, it is forever and leaves your touch in it. When you have a book that is handmade, you know that you are holding something that is made, with heart and soul, by a bookbinder.”
Originally trained as a graphic designer and having worked in advertising for a number of years, Mun Foong's story is one about childhood interests - cutting up living room curtains to make cloths - to switching careers to follow a passion, even if it means having to teach herself all the skills needed, right from scratch.
Young, impulsive and stupid - these are words Michelle Yu uses to describe how her heart lead her to letterpress.
Documentary about the history of Philippine cinema.