Doc Nights

GETTING IT BACK: THE STORY OF CYMANDE

Directed by Tim MacKenzie-Smith

UK, 2024, 1h 33min, DCP

Doc Nights

AFS Cinema

6406 N I-35 Suite 3100 Austin, TX 78752

Pricing

$13.50 evening / $11 matinee (available M-F for shows before 6 PM)

$4 discounts for AFS MAKE & WATCH members. Free for LOVE & Impact Circle members.

Discounts for AISD educators and local high school & college students are available at the box office with a valid school ID.

When the five-man funk band of Caribbean-born Londoners called Cymande (pronounced seh-MON-day) played their last gig in 1974, they assumed the story was over. But thousands of miles away, proto hip-hop DJs were being influenced by their sound, and over the course of the next few decades, their music was reborn. This film takes us to the source as the group reforms for a triumphant return to stages — this time in front of huge, grateful crowds.

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