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Camarón de la Isla, is considered to be the single most popular and influential flamenco cantaor (singer) of the modern period. In 1979, Camarón recorded La Leyenda del Tiempo with lyrics of Federico García Lorca, Omar Khayan, and Kiko Veneno. Rejected in his time, today it is now considered the best Flamenco album of all times that opened new stylistic roads. While Spain was learning how to live in liberty after Franco’s dictatorship, Camarón grew out a beard, left his nickname “de la Isla”, and took up the electric guitar thus bringing together Flamenco, Rock, and Jazz.

A group of artists that time has shown to be geniuses met around a big Flamenco star to write one of the most brilliant and riskier albums of the history of Spanish music. Time of Legend is a documentary full of unseen images and videos which propose a fascinating journey to the origins of the adventure of recording La Leyenda del Tiempo.

Los Trashumantes/The Trashumants - The film is set during the nascent Mexican film scene, when the presenters of the new invention traveled all over the Mexican Republic in 1914 showing their films. The three wandering filmmakers haphazardly discover the potential of becoming rich and famous if they can only capture images of the revolution and its most famous leaders: Pancho Villa. The film evokes the antique sepia tones and high contrasts, the texture and rhythm and the cinematographic language of the first images of the Mexican Revolution. Filmed in San Luis Potosi, in a desert town that recreates the classic atmosphere of a western, the film is Cecchetti’s cinematic thesis in collaboration with the famed Italian cinematographer Massimo Bettarelli.

Lupano Leyva - It is 1915 and the Mexican Revolution is in full swing. Lupano Leyva is a federal soldier who was wounded in battle and struggling to survive. After an ambush we witness his last moments, his agony, his memories while he wanders through the desert in a delirium between life and death. A film in black and white that reminds us of the fascinating images from the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, the exquisite cinematography of Gabriel Figueroa combined with Buñuel’s surrealist tone. It took Felipe Gomez 15 years to produce this film, a visual jewel just in time to celebrate the Centenary of the Mexican Revolution.Viva México!

II Festival Internacional de Cine de la Ciudad de Chihuahua, 2010, XXV Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara, México 2010