Go Cuba! - Programme 3
Resolver, el arte
Alejandro Fernández González | Cuba | 2020 | 28' | Spanish spoken | English subtitles / World premiere
Documentary. Redesigning the Cuban audiovisual system assuming its diversity, and providing it with a legal basis that allows its growth and coherent ordering has been the subject of discussion between filmmakers and institutions during the last decade. Resolver, el arte collects testimonies from Cuban filmmakers about the problems that concern their professional work, and the search for a cinematography that not only grows in numbers, but also in quality and commitment.
Los coleccionistas
Diana Morena | Cuba | 2020 | 25' | Spanish spoken | English subtitles / Dutch premiere
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?
Los cimarrones
Damián Sainz | Cuba | 2021 | 12' | Spanish spoken | English subtitles / Dutch premiere
Orestes is feverishly searching his brother Damián in the night forest. Here in the jungle he is faced with his deepest fears: darkness, the spirits of his enslaved ancestors, his brother's homosexuality.
Aburo
Cecilia Otero | Cuba, Chile, USA | 2020 | 17' | Spanish spoken | English subtitles / European premiere
David (17) dreams of a career as a ballet dancer, his twin brother Alexis is planning a restaurant robbery. The night before the auditions their inability to get along reaches boiling point.