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.
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.
Rumba Catalana
Rumba Tres, de ida y vuelta
Razões Africanas
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.
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.
French-language documentary on the History of Congolese rumba.
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
An unfinished documentary by the late great film critic and historian Agustin "Hammy" Sotto. Hammy passed away in 2001 at the age of 51
A journey through the evolution of time travel; from it origins, it's evolution and influence in science fiction, to the exciting possibilities in the future.
The veil of cumbersome complexities of the French judicial system is lifted to reveal the human stories behind, of those who work the system, and those who are affected by it.
The Shoah's memorial, Paris. Every thursday, volunteers provide a photographic permanence to collect the testimonies and the family archives of people wishing to transmit and protect their history.
Every year in Burgundy, the success of their vintage is a true epic. The work in the vineyard and the cellar throughout the seasons results in the creation of exceptional wines that are lively, sought after, and adored around the world: Romanée-Conti, Gevrey-Chambertin, Chambolle-Musigny, Meursault, Volnay... These wines carry within them the plot of land from which they originate and the soul of the people who brought them to life.
La Passion de Marie Madeleine
A German Documentary about the “village of friendship” that was created by American Veteran George Mizo to help the Vietnamese kids suffering from the Vietnam War.
An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extremadura, Spain, as it was in 1932. Insalubrity, misery and lack of opportunities provoke the emigration of young people and the solitude of those who remain in the desolation of one of the poorest and least developed Spanish regions at that time.
Megacities is a documentary about the slums of four different metropolitan cities.
Scott Freiman gives some context into what The Beatles were up to during the making of the best selling album of the 60's.