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Spotlight on Cuba: EICTV 1
Spotlight on Cuba: EICTV 1
Description
Selected by Juliana Fanjul, documentary chair at the International Film and TV School (EICTV) in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. This program consists of five short films: Abecé; Isla; El enemigo; La Bonita; and Los viejos heraldos.
Tickets & Times
Sun, november 17
11:15 – 12:52
Pathé City 3
Film fully subtitled in English

Thu, november 21
12:45 – 14:37
Pathé City 4
Film fully subtitled in English
Composition
Abecé

Abecé

Leoneidi is a 12-year-old mother whose life is divided between parental responsibilities and childlike playfulness. In an interview with the director of this short documentary, she tells us her unusual life story.

Isla

Isla

A short graduation film in which the director captures the island of Cuba in tranquil shots on 16mm. The camera is used as an instrument to record and retrieve memories.

El enemigo

El enemigo

This short student film shows the fight to control the yellow fever mosquito, that also carries dengue. Mayelín has the thankless task of handing out fines to poor residents of working-class neighborhoods in Havana where the mosquito is found.

La Bonita

La Bonita

From permanent make-up to Brazilian waxing: the beauty treatments that the female body is subjected to are seldom a pleasant experience, as this pointedly unvarnished short documentary shows.

Los viejos heraldos

Los viejos heraldos

An elderly couple leading a simple existence in the Cuban countryside watches an old TV set that’s thrusting a new political era into their lives.

Tickets & Times
Sun, november 17
11:15 – 12:52
Pathé City 3
Film fully subtitled in English

Thu, november 21
12:45 – 14:37
Pathé City 4
Film fully subtitled in English
Spotlight on Cuba
Spotlight on Cuba revisits the complex political history of Cuba. With a retrospective of the pioneering Afro-Cuban filmmaker Sara Gómez, next to a special curation of films made by students of the EICTV, the program will explore the paradoxes of our perception of Cuba as both revolutionary utopia and dystopia.
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Abecé

Abecé

Diana Montero
Cuba
2013
15 min
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