La Guitarra Flamenca de Yerai Cortés

A creative portrait of the young flamenco guitar player

Spanish Grammy-award-winning rapper Antón Álvarez, better known as C. Tangana, makes his directorial debut with this intimate look at the life of flamenco guitar player Yerai Cortés. Told through a deeper look into the history of the musician’s family, this poignant documentary sensitively explores gypsy culture through dissecting familial tragedies and traumas, looking at how such pain seeps into — and fuels — creativity. What may look like a traditional music documentary at first turns into a much more nuanced, rich snapshot of flamenco and its deep-rooted connections with notions of identity, prejudice, and community.

Rafa Sales Ross