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Isla del tesoro
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Isla del tesoro

Isla del tesoro

Treasure Island
Sara Gómez
Cuba
1969
10 min
Spotlight on Cuba
Tickets & Times
Synopsis

For three centuries, Isla de Pinos, Cuba’s “pine nut” or “treasure” island, was the domain of pirates, adventurers and buccaneers, and the inspiration for countless myths and legends. In his early years, the Cuban intellectual and liberationist José Marti lived in house arrest on the island.

Following independence in 1898, new pirates came ashore: American entrepreneurs arrived to colonize it for plantations. Still later, the Cuban government built a huge prison for exiles, criminals and political dissidents.

A rapid succession of scenes showing these events serves as an introduction to the Fidel Castro era, when the panoptic prison was dismantled and the island became a base for training young people to participate in Cuba’s revolution. This “youth island” is also the subject of Gómez’s documentaries On the Other Island and Una isla para Miguel.

Isla del tesoro was digitally restored by Vulnerable Media Lab as part of the Sara Gómez Project.

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Tickets & Times
Sat, november 16
Part of Spotlight on Cuba: Sara Gómez 1
11:00 – 12:17
Tuschinski 5
Film fully subtitled in English

Tue, november 19
Part of Spotlight on Cuba: Sara Gómez 1
14:30 – 15:47
Eye: Cinema 1
Film fully subtitled in English
Credits
10 min
black and white
DCP
Spoken languages: Spanish
Director
    Sara Gómez
    Sara Gómez
Production
    ICAIC,
    Jesús Pascau
    ICAIC,
    Jesús Pascau
Cinematography
    Luis García
    Luis García
Screenplay
    Sara Gómez
    Sara Gómez
Narrator
    Isaura Mendoza,
    Adolfo Llauradó
    Isaura Mendoza,
    Adolfo Llauradó
Screening copy
    Vulnerable Media Lab
    Vulnerable Media Lab

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