Gurumbé. Canciones de tu memoria negra

Starting with an act of historical justice (accepting Spain's slave trading past, hidden, denied, source of a greater miscegenation than is admitted) Gurumbé explores the influence of negritude in Andalusian culture, taking as proof of that link the trace of black culture in flamenco and its derivatives. With exquisite care for the photography and the sound track (which includes various performances recorded live), the film also shows a greater and even braver intention: to draw lines of argument from economy to religion, from the 18th century to the present day, that reveal the perverse reasons for which our black memory is still discredited and repressed, buried under an insidious appearance of exotic, vulgar and even animal otherness. (Seville European Film Festival)