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Diana Montero
Cuba
2013
15 min
Spotlight on Cuba
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Synopsis

Leoneidi is only 12 years old and already a mother. She spent pretty much her entire pregnancy in hospital, she says with a deadpan expression, with no support from her parents. Now she lives with the father of the child, who constantly gives her orders about the housekeeping.

Her life is divided between parental responsibilities and childlike playfulness: one moment she is washing her baby, the next she is tying toy cars to a puppy to see if they make a train.

Director Diana Montero spent 40 days in the southern Cuban mountain range Sierra Maestra in search of a subject. In the end, she shot the documentary—a second-year project at the Cuban film academy EICTV—in just one week. Montero, who interviews Leoneidi herself, is only heard asking questions. Her tone is neutral enough to elicit a frank response, but her questions betray a burning interest in a life completely at odds with her own. Diana Montero had been working on her debute feature when she passed away in 2020 at age 34.

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Sun, november 17
Part of Spotlight on Cuba: EICTV 1
11:15 – 12:52
Pathé City 3
Film fully subtitled in English

Thu, november 21
Part of Spotlight on Cuba: EICTV 1
12:45 – 14:37
Pathé City 4
Film fully subtitled in English
Credits
15 min
color
DCP
Spoken languages: Spanish
Director
    Diana Montero
    Diana Montero
Production
    Diana Montero for Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión - EICTV,
    Pablo García for Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión - EICTV
    Diana Montero for Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión - EICTV,
    Pablo García for Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión - EICTV
Cinematography
    Diana Montero
    Diana Montero
Editing
    Diana Montero
    Diana Montero
Sound
    Jayisha Patel
    Jayisha Patel
Sound Design
    Gastón Saenz
    Gastón Saenz
Screenplay
    Diana Montero,
    Alán González
    Diana Montero,
    Alán González
Screening copy
    Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión - EICTV
    Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión - EICTV

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More from the program section 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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Diana Montero
2013
15 min