70th edition. From 24 October to 1 November 2025.
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2023 - 68th Edition
Special Screenings

SEMILLA DEL SON

JuanMa V. Betancort
Spain
 - 2023

Santiago Auserón has been imbued with the rhythmic wisdom of Cuban son music since his first visit to the country in 1984, during Radio Futura’s first vacation. This influence was transferred into his artistic career as a mestizo innovation in rock music. His current project, Juan Perro, is his sound laboratory, where he hybridizes the musics of Cuba, Spain and New Orleans. A journey that starts from the Spanish tradition and flies to the Mississippi Delta in the form of blues, with an midway stop in the Cuban son, to finally merge with the jazz of New Orleans.

JuanMa V. Betancort

He was born in Santa Cruz de Tenerife in 1975. In 2016 he directed his first feature film with Pavel Giroud, ‘Playing Lecuona’, which received the award for best documentary at the Montreal Festival and was presented, among other competitions, at the IDFA in Amsterdam, Valladolid’s Seminci or the Rotterdam Festival. It was followed by ‘María en el exilio’ (2018) and ‘Atlanticidad’ (2019). He has also produced fiction feature films such as ‘Chamaco’ (Juan Carlos Cremata, 2010), ‘Larga distancia’ (Esteban Insausti, 2011), ‘Cuando los hombres quedan solos’ (Fernando Martínez, 2017) or ‘Platón’ (Iván López, 2018). He is currently producing and directing the feature film ‘La partitura del cosmos’.

DIRECTOR
JuanMa V. Betancort
SCREENPLAY
JuanMa Betancort, Erlyn L. Borges
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Ernesto Báez, Santiago Torres
EDITOR
JuanMa Betancort, Eduardo Cubillo
SOUND
Christian Johansen
MUSIC
Santiago Auserón, Erlyn L. Borges
PRODUCTION
Fátima Bravo de Laguna, Erlyn L. Borges
PRODUCTION COMPANY
Insularia Films
FEATURING
Santiago Auserón
RUNNING TIME
100 min.
TYPE
Largometraje
FORMAT
Color
YEAR OF PRODUCTION
2023
VERSION
O.V. in Spanish
COUNTRY
Spain
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