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February 1939. Overwhelmed by the flood of Republicans fleeing Franco's dictatorship, the French government's solution consists in confining the Spanish refugees in concentration camps where they have no other choice than to build their own shelters, feed off the horses which have carried them out of their country, and die by the hundred for lack of hygiene and water... In one of these camps, two men, separated by barbwire, will become friends. One is a guard the other is Josep Bartoli (Barcelona 1910 - New York 1995), a cartoonist who fights against the Franco regime.
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February 1939. Overwhelmed by the flood of Republicans fleeing Franco's dictatorship, the French government's solution consists in confining the Spanish refugees in concentration camps where they have no other choice than to build their own shelters, feed off the horses which have carried them out of their country, and die by the hundred for lack of hygiene and water... In one of these camps, two men, separated by barbwire, will become friends. One is a guard the other is Josep Bartoli (Barcelona 1910 - New York 1995), a cartoonist who fights against the Franco regime.
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Traditionally, each musician was trained by a master who instructed him in the playing technique, the repertoire and the manufacture of the instruments. Franco Melis (°1958, Tuili), is the last of a long lineage of players. Aurélien Froment’s film follows the uninterrupted flow of the music, drawing an unbroken invisible thread between Franco Melis and the little bronze Nuragic statue from the archaeological museum in Cagliari.
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The Non alignés series focuses on the cross-fertilization of dance and music between India and Senegal.
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In Non alignés (Fatim Diop), Froment films a dance by a member of Bharat Pehchane (The Example of India), a Senegalese dance troupe who have been instructed for two generations by Somnath Mukherjee originally from Calcutta. Fatim Diop's energetic, uninterrupted performance unfolds on the rooftop of the former court of law, with Gorée Island in the background and is captured with the smouldering intensity of twilight.
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The Non alignés series focuses on the cross-fertilization of dance and music between India and Senegal.
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