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If I Can't Dance, This Is Not My Revolution
Lillah Halla
Cuba
2014
16 min
Spotlight on Cuba
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Synopsis

Lillah Halla asked five Cubans to dance in front of the camera to music that sums up their lives at that moment. The songs are inaudible to the viewer, but the rooms in which the people dance, the way they move and their facial expressions as they listen reveal their state of mind.

The people dance in their own bedrooms, wearing earphones. The setting is intimate, but they gaze directly into the camera, as if looking into a mirror. A family dances together in a tiny room, an old man stands in a flooded house and a teenager jumps on a bed in front of a wall covered with posters. The portraits combine to produce an impression of the socioeconomic situation in Cuba.

Halla graduated from the Cuban film academy EICTV in 2014. Her feature film debut Power Alley (2023) premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and won the FIPRESCI Award for Best Debut.

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Tickets & Times
Sun, november 17
Part of Spotlight on Cuba: EICTV 2
14:15 – 16:13
Pathé City 3
Film fully subtitled in English

Tue, november 19
Part of Spotlight on Cuba: EICTV 2, Film screening followed by a panel talk.
17:15 – 19:37
Eye: Cinema 1
Film fully subtitled in English
Credits
16 min
color
DCP
Spoken languages: Spanish
Director
    Lillah Halla
    Lillah Halla
Production
    Clemilson Farias
    Clemilson Farias
Cinematography
    Wilssa Esser
    Wilssa Esser
Editing
    Angela Wamai
    Angela Wamai
Sound
    Julián Diaz Peñalver
    Julián Diaz Peñalver
Screening copy
    Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión - EICTV
    Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión - EICTV

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