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Identities

La Singla

(La Singla)

Talented, passionate, creative, rhythmically accurate – and deaf. Antonia Singla mesmerised crowds with her dance while she herself moved in complete silence. 50 years later, a young woman fascinated by the extraordinary flamenco dancer’s art reveals her forgotten story.

A deaf girl from a Roma slum on Barcelona’s coast became one of the most remarkable flamenco dancers and muses of her time. The film’s narrator, Elena, found 1960s recordings of Antonia’s dances. Impressed by her talent, her bewitching gaze, and the way she sensed vibrations and set the rhythm, Elena begins to look for details of her life. Through scraps of reports from the Internet, she finds people who knew Antonia personally, and with their help uncovers her story: from her first dance moves in front of a mirror, through her life at the forefront of the art world in Catalonia and the rest of Europe, to her mysterious disappearance at the height of her career.

03/22 18:00

Atlas – small hall, Ke Štvanici 371/4, Praha 8

Subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

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03/27 20:30

Ponrepo Cinema, Bartolomějská 11, Praha 1

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Nikola Páleníčková, Moderator
Věra Sagulová, Actress

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Title	La Singla
Original Title	La Singla
Original Language	Catalan
Subtitles	Czech, English
Premiéra	Czech premiere
Film type	Full-length documentary
Year of Production	2023
Country of Origin	Spain, Germany
Length	95 min.
Tags	Health, Lifestyle, Women's rights
Director	Paloma Zapata

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