Los Hijos de la Costa

This film will be available for free on ARTS.FILM from October 31, 2025, to November 30, 2025.

For its part, Hijos de la costa, by Bruno Bancalari, is part of what we might call ​“cinema of listening,” as it follows Afro-Mexican musicians scattered along the Pacific coast, between Oaxaca and Guerrero. The songs and performances of Alejandra Robles, Chogo and Raí Prudente, Cristino Curi García, Domingo Ayona, El Internacional Mar Azul —El Rey de los Siete Mares — , Esteban Bernal, Esteban Martínez, and Pepe Ramos form a sonic tapestry that sustains the narrative. This documentary distances itself from any ethnographic pretension to, in addition to safeguarding this immaterial stronghold of Afro-Mexican musical heritage, let the music ​“speak” for itself.