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Spotlight on Cuba: EICTV 2
Spotlight on Cuba: EICTV 2
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: Si no puedo bailar, esta no es mi revolución; El árbol; Indicios, del inscrito; Los niños lobo; and La despedida.
Tickets & Times
Sun, november 17
14:15 – 16:13
Pathé City 3
Film fully subtitled in English

Tue, november 19
Film screening followed by a panel talk.
17:15 – 19:37
Eye: Cinema 1
Film fully subtitled in English
Composition
Si no puedo bailar, esta no es mi revolución

Si no puedo bailar, esta no es mi revolución

Five Cubans dance in their own bedrooms to songs that sum up their lives. The music is inaudible to the viewer. Indirectly, these intimate portraits create a picture of the socioeconomic situation in Cuba.

El árbol

El árbol

In filming a tree growing on the fifth floor of a dilapidated building, an Iranian filmmaker in Cuba reflects on questions about rootedness. Through the tree, she enters into a conversation with her displaced father.

Indicios, del inscrito

Indicios, del inscrito

An experimental short film based on the poem Indicios, del inscrito by the Cuban poet José Kozer.

Los niños lobo

Los niños lobo

Two brothers playfully retell stories of their father’s war years and the national history of Cuba. The wealth of their inner world contrasts sharply with the poverty of their living conditions.

La despedida

La despedida

A photogenic look at the life of a former miner still living on the premises of the mine where he spent his working life. Aware of the fact that his time is almost up, he seeks to hold on to the past.

Tickets & Times
Sun, november 17
14:15 – 16:13
Pathé City 3
Film fully subtitled in English

Tue, november 19
Film screening followed by a panel talk.
17:15 – 19:37
Eye: Cinema 1
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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