In-Edit Empordà complements the music documentaries with concerts and discussions

In-Edit Empordà, the documentary film program of the Torroella de Montgrí Festival, opens its second edition on July 1st with a program that doubles the number of screenings compared to last year and incorporates complementary activities with short concerts and discussions. The duration of this audiovisual program has also been extended, extending until August 19th. The sessions will be held at the Cine Montgrí in Torroella and at the Palau Solterra, part of the Vila Casas Foundation.

For the opening of In-Edit Empordà, a concert has been scheduled at the Palau Solterra (July 1st, 7 pm) by French violinist Amandine Beyer, who will perform a selection of sonatas and scores completed by Bach in 1720, which constitute some of his most powerful manifestoes. The activity is part of the residency program of the Ambronay Academy - Sustainable EEEmerging, which hosts the Torroella de Montgrí Festival.

This concert will be complemented by the screening of Living Bach, an investigation into the universal secret of Bach's music, at the Montgrí Cinema (11:15 p.m.), followed by a discussion with director Anna Schmidt and film director and producer Sergi Cameron.

Another of the documentaries selected for this new edition of In-Edit is The Drunkards' Marseillaise, which will be screened on July 8th, reconstructs the journey that a group of young Italian anthropologists made through Spain in the summer of 1961, recording popular songs to support the anti-Franco resistance. The screening of this documentary will be complemented by a thematic guided tour of the Palau Solterra Museum - Vila Casas Foundation and a prior discussion with Pablo Gil Rituerto, director of the documentary, and Pere Camps, director of the Barnasants Festival.

The screening will also include Soundtrack to a coup de age, a jazz documentary that rewrites the Cold War episode that led musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach to sneak into the UN Security Council in protest of the assassination of Congolese Patrice Lumumba

A screening is scheduled for July 22nd The pianist was shot, the new animation work by Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal to the rhythm of jazz and a new bag. As a complementary activity there will be a showcase alongside pianist Albert Sanz, double bassist Javier Colina, and jazz vocalist Carme Canela, and a post-screening discussion with Javier Mariscal and Sergi Cameron.

Other documentaries that can be seen as part of In-Edit Empordà are Alexina B. Lives in composition, which deals with the creation and premiere of the opera Alexina B. by composer Raquel García-Tomás; In search of the perfect violin, about a luthier's journey to find the best tree to make the perfect violin for violinist Janine Jansen, and Joana Mallwitz - Momentum, a film about conductor Joana Mallwitz, which will be complemented by a discussion on power and gender roles in classical music with the participation of Belén Clemente, orchestra and choir director, and Laura Grau, communicator and digital content creator. The last of the scheduled documentaries is We are all children, about the singer Niño de Elche. The screening, scheduled for August 19, will be accompanied by a conversation with Niño de Elche and Sergi Cameron.