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Flamenco: Rhythm, Roots & Rebellion

From intimate family performances to bold experiments in contemporary music and dance, these films explore flamenco as an art form shaped by history, community, and creative reinvention. Meet the performers keeping its traditions alive, discover the Roma communities and Andalusian neighborhoods at its roots, and follow flamenco as it travels across borders and inspires new generations of artists. Together, these films reveal a vibrant tradition in which music, movement, identity, and memory converge.

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The Flamenco: Rhythm, Roots & Rebellion collection includes the following titles:

9 Sevilles - image9 Sevilles

An unorthodox walk through new flamenco by way of nine portraits of figure,s from dance, singing, poetry and activism.

Pragda Films | 2020 | 157 minutes | Middle School, High School, College, Adult
Bajarí: Gypsy Barcelona - imageBajarí: Gypsy Barcelona

Bajarí offers an intimate look at how flamenco’s legacy is kept alive within Barcelona’s tight-knit Gypsy community. Flamenco is passed on within the family in the Gypsy community that bore Carmen Amaya, the greatest flamenco dancer of all time.

Pragda Films | 2013 | 84 minutes | High School, College, Adults
Fernanda and Bernarda - imageFernanda and Bernarda

A poetic portrait of flamenco icons Fernanda and Bernarda, tracing their journey from Utrera to the world through artistry, memory, and silence.

Pragda Films | 2023 | 83 minutes | Middle School, High School, College, Adult
Over the Waves: A Story of Flamenco in the U.S. - imageOver the Waves: A Story of Flamenco in the U.S.

For over a hundred years, the art of flamenco has been crossing the ocean into distant places. Many have fallen in love with the deep song, the cry, the rhythm. Over the Waves explores the tradition of flamenco art in the US: its origins, protagonists, and its identity as a nomadic and hybrid art form.

Pragda Films | 2013 | 100 minutes | High School, College, Adults
Sacromonte. The Wise of the Tribe - imageSacromonte. The Wise of the Tribe

Sacromonte aims to recover the memory of the most important flamenco community in the world. Through the survivors of a lost and golden age, elder flamenco men and women, we dive in their past in search of their roots and memories.

Pragda Films | 2015 | 94 minutes | High School, College, Adults
Terremoto, the Documentary - imageTerremoto, the Documentary

The incredible life of Terremoto de Jerez. His style is the sublimation of cante jondo and his biography is the history of flamenco itself.

Pragda Films | 2021 | 69 minutes | Middle School, High School, College, Adult
Trance - imageTrance

A journey to the heart of the flamenco music of Jorge Pardo, an essential artist to understand the evolution of contemporary flamenco.

Pragda Films | 2022 | 104 minutes | Middle School, High School, College, Adult
Triana, Pure and Pure - imageTriana, Pure and Pure

This joyful film memorializes the end of an indomitable lineage in a unique flamenco soiree, transformed into a tribute to a disappeared world.

Pragda Films | 2013 | 82 minutes | High School, College, Adults

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