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Una isla para Miguel
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Una isla para Miguel

Una isla para Miguel

An Island for Miguel
Sara Gómez
Cuba
1968
22 min
Spotlight on Cuba
Tickets & Times
Synopsis

After the Cuban Revolution, the new government sent young people to Isla de Pinos for re-education. In this the second part of Sara Gómez’s trilogy on Isla de Pinos (now Isla de la Juventud), she follows the adolescent Miguel, who comes from a large, destitute single-parent family in Havana. Miguel is on the island to become an upright young man and a valued comrade in the new Communist state of Cuba.

The ultra-disciplined group program helps Miguel avoid the gang life that draws in so many marginalized boys of color. Gómez films this forthright young man at the camp, and invites the camp leaders and Miquel’s comrades to have their say. In line with the ‘imperfect cinema’ tradition, the director tracks the progress of the revolution and in a dignified manner, presents people who would otherwise be neither seen nor heard. In the background we hear the Afro Cuban jazz sounds of the legendary pianist and composer Chucho Valdés.

Una isla para Miguel is being screened in a restored 4K version (restoration by Vulnerable Media Lab) of the last surviving 16mm print, from the archives of the Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematográficos (ICAIC).

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Tickets & Times
Sat, november 16
Part of Spotlight on Cuba: Sara Gómez 1
11:00 – 12:19
Tuschinski 5
Film fully subtitled in English

Tue, november 19
Part of Spotlight on Cuba: Sara Gómez 1
14:30 – 15:49
Eye: Cinema 1
Film fully subtitled in English
Credits
22 min
black and white
DCP
Spoken languages: Spanish
Director
    Sara Gómez
    Sara Gómez
Production
    ICAIC,
    Jesús Pascau
    ICAIC,
    Jesús Pascau
Cinematography
    Luis Mesa García
    Luis Mesa García
Editing
    Caíta Villalón
    Caíta Villalón
Sound
    Germinal Hernández,
    Arturo Valdés
    Germinal Hernández,
    Arturo Valdés
Music
    Chucho Valdés
    Chucho Valdés
Screenplay
    Sara Gómez,
    Tomás González Pérez
    Sara Gómez,
    Tomás González Pérez
Narrator
    Isaura Mendoza
    Isaura Mendoza
Screening copy
    Vulnerable Media Lab
    Vulnerable Media Lab

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