Two women, three continents, zero subtitles for the soul's true language.
Initiatory journey of a soprano and an ethnologist in Africa, Asia and South America, in search of music from other cultures.
Score
Living music: kora, ney, qin, performed by masters not actors.
Direction
Santiago's patient gaze lets silences speak louder than dialogue.
Director
Hugo Santiago
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Hugo Santiago, Argentine exiled in France, made this for French-German TV Arte's early arts programming—part of a wave of 1990s European co-productions treating non-Western cultures with rare collaborative rather than extractive intent.
Kudsi Erguner appears as himself, years before his mainstream fame with Peter Brook's Mahabharata and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan collaborations—this captures him in pure traditionalist mode.
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