Venezuela, 2024
Directed by Daniel Yegres Richard
In Spanish with English and French subtitles, 127 min
Saturday October 25, 2025, 7 PM
Innis Town Hall
This is a biographical film about the Venezuelan singer-songwriter Alí Primera. It narrates the historical events that led him to be known as the “people’s singer” and leader of the largest movement of Venezuelan artists committed to the cause of the dispossessed. It is the story of his loves, his pains, and the songs that he accompanied with his unyielding behavior from his childhood in the desert areas of western Venezuela until his tragic end.
Película biográfica sobre el cantautor venezolano Alí Primera. Narra los eventos históricos que lo llevaron a ser conocido como el ¨cantor del pueblo¨ y líder del mayor movimiento de artistas venezolanos comprometidos con la causa de los desposeídos. Es la historia de sus amores, de sus dolores y de las canciones que acompañó con su conducta indoblegable desde su infancia en las zonas desérticas del occidente venezolano hasta su trágico final.
