Africa Express
Synopsis
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
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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)
Genre
Categories
Production Status
Production Company
Edge Films
Jonathan Davis ArakelianGobernador Vicente Eguía 8, col. San Miguel Chapultepec, Mexico City, Mexico
Africa Express Limited (UK co-producer)
Lauren Roth de WolfLondon, UK
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