In 1961, the Italian collective Cantacronache secretly crossed Franco’s Spain to record popular songs of resistance. In 2022, Pablo Gil Rituerto retraces this journey, guided by Emilio Jona, the last living witness. Archives, landscapes, and contemporary voices weave a powerful reminder of a struggle still unfinished: singing is a political act, and listening a form of resistance.

With their wild, home-built instruments, sound-art duo Lolo & Sosaku unleash squeaks, rumbles and crashes in a perfectly orchestrated chaos. Is it a concert, an acid-soaked happening, a daydream in the style of Quintin Dupieux? Sergio Caballero throws the two sound artists into an extravagant western where the desert becomes a playground for sonic and visual exploration. A delirious plunge into the imagination — a trip where machines are never efficient, but always magical.

In La Révolution des Muses, Clío, a sex worker and artist’s model, reclaims art history from the perspective of women exploited by Picasso, Baudelaire, Caravaggio… Blending queer cabaret, kitsch rituals and political performance, the film shatters taboos around desire, art and power, placing the muses as co-creators far from the shadow of male “genius.”

Some scenes may be disturbing to viewers.

Portrait of José Pérez Ocaña (1947-1983), painter, sculptor, singer, actor and performer from Andalusia, who during the Transition roamed the Ramblas of Barcelona dressed as a queer sevillana. The film offers an immersion in the creative universe of this countercultural icon, bringing a breath of freedom to a country weighed down by forty years of dictatorship.

When Spanish rap star C. Tangana meets virtuoso guitarist Yerai Cortés, he is immediately drawn to his talent and the unique story of his family. Yerai, an unconventional figure respected by both traditionalist Roma and avant-garde musicians, embarks on the creation of an album with Tangana. Blending musical sequences with moments of family truth — where a heavy secret emerges — the film explores the deep roots of flamenco’s expressiveness, its cultural weight, and its capacity to hold both tradition and rebellion.

This film is presented in the framework
of EUROPALIA ESPAÑA, in collaboration with AECID – Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, European Union and Cooperation of Spain. With the kind support
of Comisionado de 50 años de España en Libertad (Ministry of Territorial
Affairs and Democratic Memory), and the Embassy of Spain in Belgium.