"Chavela"
Chavela Vargas
Inspired by an exclusive interview and performance footage of Chavela Vargas shot in 1991 and guided by her unique voice, the film weaves an arresting portrait of a woman who dared to dress, speak, sing, and dream her unique life into being.
The Nightingale and the Night. Chavela Vargas sings Lorca.
Chavela Vargas and Federico García Lorca are the main characters of this story. Poetry and music are the places of their meetings. Chavela explains when he lived in the same room where Federico García Lorca lived decades ago, was visited by a bird that contained the soul of the Spanish poet. In her last year of life, Chavela fulfills her last wis..
El amor amargo de Chavela
Rafael Amargo is an artist who at the age of 35 feels his muses have abandoned him. Something many artists go through at some given moment. He feels a need to seek inspiration to rekindle the magic of the art fairy. This launches him on a journey that will take him to the source of such kind of inspiration, crossing seas, mountains and many roads u..
Becoming Chavela
A short film adapted from the docu-cabaret about iconic Mexican singer Chavela Vargas' life and music, set within the art world and social milieu of mid-century Mexico City when it was the cultural capital of Latin America.
