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AFRICA MIA

By Richard MINIER, Edouard SALIER

CHARADES - as SALES

Documentary - Completed 2019

The birth of Afro-Cuban music

- Year of production
- 2019
- Genres
- Documentary, Musical
- Countries
- FRANCE
- Languages
- FRENCH, BRAZILIAN-PORTUGUESE
- Duration
- 105 mn
- Director(s)
- Richard MINIER, Edouard SALIER
- Synopsis
- 1964. In the midst of the Cold War, ten young promising musicians from Mali are sent to Cuba to study music and strengthen cultural links between the two socialist regimes. They invent a whole new genre: Afro- Cuban Music and become the iconic group, "Las Maravillas de Mali". New Year's Eve 2000. Richard Minier, a French music producer meets a former member of the band in Bamako and decides to bring the band back together.