GAZEL OF THE GIBRALTAR STRAITS
Channel: Jose Luis Tirado
Date: 23/04/2024

Choral groups are a popular and universal phenomenon, and Europe boasts thousands. The Tarifa Chorale, the southernmost city in Europe, in the Straits of Gibraltar (Cadiz, Spain), rehearse an original piece of music composed for this documentary, while their members, most of them women, narrate their musical and also social experiences, in an exercise of citizen policy, in relation to the issues of education, health, housing, work, gender, environment, destruction of the productive sectors... A local story that is universal, full of humanity, poetry and truth.

Gazel: from "ghazal", a usually amatory lyric poem, idiosyncratic to Andalusian Arabic.

 A documentary by José Luis Tirado

With the Chorale and the Music Band of Tarifa, conducted by Pepe Muñoz Manso
Music by Javier Ruibal
Lyrics by Juan José Téllez

HD, 16:9, colour, stereo, 100 min., 2023


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