Carles Prats
2021¡Cuchíbiri, cuchíbiri! La rumba de Peret
Carles Prats
Peret
'¡Cuchíbiri cuchíbiri!' is the story of the Catalan rumba. Created by Catalan gypsies, this documentary is narrated by its very creator: Peret, who sold millions of records around the world. Stories about stardom, friendship and family, yet also about his disenchantment with the music industry. A man who took charge of his destiny with sheer determination and talent, and then simply walked away.
¡Cuchíbiri, cuchíbiri! La rumba de Peret
Joan Fontcuberta: El que queda de la fotografia
Roger Grasas, Carles Prats
Joan Fontcuberta
Technological change has transformed the world of photography and the photographer's skills. Joan Fontcuberta had to evolve in his discourses and strategies to interpret a changing world and review the creative framework that he himself had designed in the 80s, questioning the Remains of Photography.
Joan Fontcuberta: El que queda de la fotografia
Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
Carles Prats
Tonino Delli Colli, Carla Leone
The life and work of one of the great masters of Italian cinema, Sergio Leone (1929-89); a rich and fascinating portrait through unpublished testimonies of collaborators, actors, directors and critics who reconstruct every aspect of his creative activity.
Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
Quiero tener una ferretería en Andalucía
Carles Prats
Since the mid-70s, Joe Strummer, the former leader of The Clash, was irresistibly attracted to Andalusia. This documentary is a fun and revealing chronicle of the adventures of Strummer in Granada and Almeria, of his trying to leave behind his rock star aura, to get away from the myth of The Clash and become anonymous.
Quiero tener una ferretería en Andalucía
Llámale Jess Redux
Manel Mayol, Carles Prats
Jesús Franco, Lina Romay
Jesus Franco, also known as Jess Franco, was one of the most important names in "B" cinema worldwide. With more than 200 works and a wide and peculiar use of pseudonyms, his work remains difficult to catalog, which makes it more exciting if it fits. Through a series of interviews with Franco, "Llámale Jess Redux" brings the spectator closer to the sadist, esoteric and erotic world of the director, as refined as rogue. This new version of "Llámale Jess" (2000), considered the reference documentary on Franco, and directed by Carles Prats and Manel Mayol, incorporates new unpublished statements by the irreducible Madrid filmmaker, as well as paying homage to his muse and companion, Lina Romay , Incorporating his active presence to the story.
Call Me Jess Redux
Seijun Suzuki: kabuki & yakuzas
Carles Prats
Seijun Suzuki, Takeo Kimura
In the sixties, director and screenwriter Seijun Suzuki (1923-2017) was the great innovator of Japanese cinema. Extremely creative and eccentric, his narrative world is strongly influenced by Kabuki theater. His testimony crosses with that of his collaborator and close friend, artistic director and screenwriter Takeo Kimura (1918–2010). Between the two of them, they remember how they made their great masterpieces about the Yakuza underworld for the Nikkatsu film company.
Seijun Suzuki: kabuki & yakuzas
Drácula Barcelona
Carles Prats
Jesús Franco, Christopher Lee
In 1969, Jesús Franco and Christopher Lee shot Count Dracula in Barcelona. At the same time, Pere Portabella became aware of this filming, vampirizing it in Cuadecuc, Vampir. Genre and Art-house films had never been so close. Drácula Barcelona tells the story of these two movies.
Drácula Barcelona
Històries de Bruguera
Carles Prats
Amèlia Bruguera, Andreu Martín
The history of Bruguera, the most important comic publisher in Spain between the 1940s and the 1980s. How the characters created by great writers and pencilers became Spanish archetypes and how their strips persist nowadays as a portrait of Spain and its people. The daily life of the creators and the founding family, the Brugueras. The world in which hundreds of vivid colorful paper beings lived and still live, in the memory of millions, in the smile of everyone.
Històries de Bruguera