Juan Manuel Villar Betancort

When a young man is killed in Central Park in La Habana, a series of coincidences reveals that many of the night walkers that hang around the park are related to the crime.

Spanish musician Santiago Auserón soaked up the rhythmic wisdom of son during his first visit to Cuba in 1984, an influence he soon transferred to his own work.

A man tries to start life in the stone by the volcano spit. An everyday marked by hostility of a beautiful and terrible enviroment.

The film, subsidized by the Tenerife Island Council, explores the relationship between the logic of the universe and musical language. In this work, Suzanne Ciani, a pioneer of electronic music, travels to the Canary Islands Institute of Astrophysics (IAC) to investigate this groundbreaking scientific research. This pioneering discovery reveals that spiral galaxies rotate with the same rhythmic pattern and that their different galactic disks spin in harmony, musically connected to one another, like the instruments of an orchestra. With the help of musicians from different continents, Ciani sets out to compose the score of the cosmos in an unprecedented dialogue between music and astronomy.

Playing Lecuona is a musical journey through the works and living spaces of Ernesto Lecuona, the internationally acclaimed Cuban pianist and piano composer. Serving as guides through Lecuona’s music are three of the most gifted Latin jazz pianists in the world: Chucho Valdés, Michel Camilo, and Gonzalo Rubalcaba. Valdés fuses Latin jazz together with Afro-Cuban rhythms in Lecuona’s native Havana; Camilo recreates elegant aural soundscapes in New York and the Canary Islands; and Rubalcaba fuses jazz and flamenco in Seville, the heart of Andalusian Spain. Together, these three musicians provide a rich portrait of Lecuona’s music and its lasting influence.