They Shot the Piano Player (2023)

Directed by Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal, this animated docudrama follows a New York music journalist who sets out to investigate the truth behind the mysterious disappearance of Francisco Tenório Júnior, a prodigious Brazilian samba-jazz pianist, in Buenos Aires in 1976. Framed by Latin American history, this investigative journey combines jazz, animation and the intoxicating rhythms of bossa nova, showing the interplay between creative freedom and political oppression.