Carlos Bosch, the director of festival favorite Balseros, returns with this touching film about love, imprisonment, and the power of song. For the participants of the 2005 Festival of Song held at a prison near Madrid, singing love songs isn’t just fun, it is, rather, a poignant reminder of those they long for and are without. What begins as a visit to a friend in a Madrid-area penitentiary soon becomes the inspiration for this documentary when director Bosch stumbles across a karaoke competition in progress. Among the competitors are Adelberto, an Argentine, Arturo, a Spanish gypsy, and Rudolf, a Lithuanian. Each has chosen a love song, and each sings as if his heart is far outside the prison walls. Arturo sings for his wife and family, Rudolf, for a young Ukrainian girl, Adelberto, for his grandmother and his “girlfriend” Pablo. The winner eventually moves on to a larger, system-wide contest, where others—the Mexican Norma, the Bolivian Aurora, and even the Madridista ex-rock star Gordoqui—wait to compete. They, too, sing songs of love, for those that may be close, for those they rarely see, and for those they will never see again. Following these remarkable stories of love over the course of a year, Septembers journeys both within the prison and outside of it, traveling from Buenos Aires to Lithuania and Bolivia to Barcelona to track down those for whom the prisoners yearn. “What is love? Can a documentary be made about love?” asks Bosch. This beguiling film proves that the answer is an unequivocal yes.
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Septembers (Septiembres)
