BARRIO follows salsa and timba across Cuba, New York, Puerto Rico, and Colombia — a music that was never a genre but a language of resistance created by Black communities shaped by violence and abandonment. From the founding architects of salsa in their final years to young Afro-Colombians keeping the tradition alive in community sound systems where music fulfills a role the state never did, the film captures testimony that is disappearing with each passing year. BARRIO is not a celebration. It is an act of rescue.
Directed by Juan Carvajal (La Salsa Vive — SXSW 2025, Netflix Latin America, 3 Macondo Awards).
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