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Fandango at the Wall

2020 · 93 min

A warm, hopeful documentary that lets you sit inside a shared musical tradition and feel a border soften into a meeting place.

Directed by
Varda Bar-Kar
Genres
Documentary, Music
Starring
Arturo O'Farrill, Jorge Francisco Castillo, Kabir Sehgal
Overview
Follow New York City maestro Arturo O’Farrill, Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra founder, to Veracruz, Mexico where he meets up with the masters of a 300-year-old folk music tradition called son jarocho and then joins them for a historical music festival called “Fandango Fronterizo” that takes place simultaneously on both sides of the United States-Mexico border transforming the wall from an object that divides to one that unites.

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Directed by
Varda Bar-Kar
Genres
Documentary, Music
Starring
Arturo O'Farrill, Jorge Francisco Castillo, Kabir Sehgal
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    Themes
    • music
    • art
    • immigration
    • politics
    • friendship
    Places
    • big city
    • countryside
    • road trip
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    adult
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    • documentary
    • true story
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language mild
    • Violence none
    • Sex none
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    Horror0
    Humour3
    Realism9
    Romance1
    Tension3
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    Complexity4
    Emotional weight6

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    Genres
    documentary, music
    Directed by
    Varda Bar-Kar
    Written by
    Kabir Sehgal, Varda Bar-Kar
    Starring
    Arturo O'Farrill, Jorge Francisco Castillo, Kabir Sehgal, Fernando Guadarrama, Patricio Hidalgo, Regina Carter, Douglas Brinkley, Mandy Gonzalez
    Cinematography
    Matt Porwoll
    Runtime
    93 min
    Country
    Mexico, United States of America
    Languages
    English, Spanish

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