Go Cuba! - shorts
Los coleccionistas*
Diana Morena | Cuba | 2020 | 25' | Spanish spoken | English subtitles
Papoto (12) and his little sister Lili (10) live with their father, a fisherman. In an apparently carefree summer, the kids save wrappers for their collection and tag along to sea. But can Papoto protect his sister from their father?
*This short will only be screened at Rialto De Pijp.
Última canción para Mayaan
Lisandra López Fabé | Cuba | 2020 | 16' | Spanish spoken | English subtitles
Luis (13) waits every night for his mother Mayan (33), who prostitutes herself, just to make a living. He finds comfort in music and composes a song for her on his old trumpet.
Tundra
José Luis Aparicio Ferrera | Cuba | 2022 | 30' | Spanish spoken | English subtitles
Walfrido Larduet, a lonely electrical inspector, dreams of the Red Woman, whose image persists and becomes an obsession. Something tells him she is near. Over the course of a day Walfrido will follow her trail as he travels through the suburbs of an infested city.
Q&A + follow-up discussion with director José Luis Aparicio Ferrera
Director José Luis Aparicio Ferrera will be present during the screening. During the Q&A he will answer all questions from the audience. His short film Tundra had its world premiere in Curta Cinema – Río de Janeiro International Short Film Festival and was also screened at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival. The film was selected and partly funded by Go Cuba! back in 2020.
On Saturday evening 27 August there will be an in-depth aftertalk. Pamela Kalkman (see bio at the bottom of the page) will lead the discussion with José Luis Aparicio about the film Tundra, his work and the current situation in Cuba.
JOSÉ LUIS APARICIO FERRERA (1994) is an independent filmmaker, critic and curator who studied film directing at the University of Arts (Cuba). His short fiction and documentary films have been screened and awarded at numerous prestigious film festivals all over the world. In 2019 he was named amongst the “One hundred latinos that create and inspire a better future” by Colombia’s Avianca magazine.
PAMELA KALKMAN is a journalist and filmmaker. She has traveled to Cuba often as researcher of the VPRO-documentary series Cuba na Castro and BNNVARA documentary De Muur about the Cuban-American border at Guantanamo Bay. As a political scientist, she wrote her master's thesis on Cuban independent film as a form of resistance.
