Project Detail

Africa Express

Africa Express

Synopsis

Founded in 2004 by Damon Albarn and Ian Birrell, the UK music collective Africa Express has spent two decades bringing artists together across borders. In February 2024 it arrived in the Americas for the first time. Over eight days in Las Estacas, Mexico, more than 60 musicians from Africa, Latin America, Europe and the United States came together to rehearse, perform and create an album from scratch.
Following Africa Express from Mexico through Europe and back, the film becomes a poetic journey through music, memory and imagination, celebrating the power of collaboration and community as reality slowly blurs with fantasy.
With no single protagonist, the collective itself is the main character and music is its language. Africa Express is a portrait of a fleeting community and of what strangers from different worlds can build when they truly listen to each other.

Details

Year
2026
Type of project
Features
Running time
90 min
Format
Digital, color, 3:2
Director
Emilio Guerrero Alexander 1st Feature
Producer
Jonathan Davis Arakelian, Santiago Vázquez Gaytán
Executive Producer
Damon Albarn, Ian Birrell, Lauren Roth de Wolf
Editor
Emilio Guerrero Alexander
Director of Photography
Daniel J. Zuñiga, Emilio Guerrero Alexander
Sound
Javier Umpierrez
Composer
Africa Express
Principal cast
Damon Albarn, Jupiter Bokondji, Fatoumata Diawara, Bonobo, Moonchild Sanelly, Seye Adelekan, Femi Koleoso, Nick Zinner, Joan As Policewoman, Camilo Lara, Baba Sissoko, Hak Baker, M.anifest, Eme Malafe, Luisa Almaguer
Sound Designer
Javier Umpierrez
Production Sound Mixer
Gonzalo Quintana
Music
performed and composed collectively by Africa Express
Narrator
Jupiter Bokondji
Co-production companies
Africa Express Limited (UK), Volver a Flotar (MEX)

Categories

Production Status

Production Company

Edge Films

Jonathan Davis Arakelian
Gobernador Vicente Eguía 8, col. San Miguel Chapultepec, Mexico City, Mexico

Africa Express Limited (UK co-producer)

Lauren Roth de Wolf
London, UK

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