Septembers
Director Carles Bosch
Countries Spain
Duration 89 min
Synopsis
Every year, in September, the Spanish penitentiary system promotes a music festival that gathers the best singers among the inmates of all country, a competition that is anxiously awaited and which elects the best detainee singer. What seems to be an ordinary musical contest turns into an event of hope and a portrait of the deepest feelings of these convicts. Through the years that separate both contests, Carles Bosch follows some of the detainees, such as Arturo, a gipsy that sings for his wife and children, Rudolf, a expatriate Lithuanian that associates is elected his performance to an Ukrainian love, and Adelberto, a young Argentinean that calls his grandmother every week.
Every year, in September, the Spanish penitentiary system promotes a music festival that gathers the best singers among the inmates of all country, a competition that is anxiously awaited and which elects the best detainee singer. What seems to be an ordinary musical contest turns into an event of hope and a portrait of the deepest feelings of these convicts. Through the years that separate both contests, Carles Bosch follows some of the detainees, such as Arturo, a gipsy that sings for his wife and children, Rudolf, a expatriate Lithuanian that associates is elected his performance to an Ukrainian love, and Adelberto, a young Argentinean that calls his grandmother every week.