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Radical Sounds Latin America Festival

Rhythm & Memory Documentary Showcase

Followed by a talk with Edna Martínez and Miguel Buenrostro

Acústica en Ayuujk (Ayuujk acoustics)
Miguel Buenrostro, Mexico, Germany, 2024 10 min. No dialog

Cumbia!! At the Edge of the Forest
Miguel Buenrostro, Sweden 2023, 16 min. Spanish with English Subtitles

Por Soleá
Miguel Buenrostro, Spain, Germany, 2024, 20 min. Spanish with English Subtitles

Strings [Premiere]
Miguel Buenrostro, Edna Martínez, Democratic Republic of Congo, Germany, 2023
10 min. Spanish with English subtitles


Radical Sounds Latin America Festival opens its 6th edition with a documentary showcase of films directed by Miguel Buenrostro, including a recent collaboration with Edna Martínez, known for her work bridging Africa, her natal Caribbean, and the Arabic world.

The showcase features four short films on musical traditions and their diasporic horizon. In these films Buenrostro works with musicians, revealing a global dimension to instrument-making and offering a counter-narrative to the colonial histories that shaped the evolution of musical instruments in Latin America. (EM)

Miguel Buenrostro is a visual artist and filmmaker from Mexico.

Edna Martínez is an artist, DJ, and music curator at Haus der Kulturen der Welt.