2024-04-03 16:38:40
Text: Editorial Cuba Noticias 360
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There are just a few days until the 41st edition of the Miami International Film Festival begins and several Cuban audiovisual proposals, produced both outside and inside the Island, will arrive at the theaters.
From April 5 to 14, through the section Spotlight on Cuba, Curated by Cuban critic Alejandro Ríos, these films will come from local and foreign directors, who take the Island’s conflicts as the essential support of their films.
The program includes a tribute to the documentary filmmaker Nicolás Guillén Landrián (1938-2003), one of the most original creators of Cuban cinema that emerged after the triumph of 1959, but condemned, for decades, to ostracism. In this sense you can enjoy Landriana documentary by Ernesto Daranas premiered in the Venice Classics section of the Venice International Film Festival and which in Miami will compete for the Best Documentary Award.
Restored copies of Nicolás Guillén’s filmography will be projected in an old neighborhood (1963), Those of the dance (1965), Ociel del Toa (1965), Arabica Coffee (1968), Line Workshop and 18 (1971) e Inside Downtown (1991).
Three other documentaries are added to this space: Antihero; Security y In the hot one. Tales of a Reggaeton Warrior.
Fabien Pisani assumed the direction of the latter, telling the story of how reggaeton has become the megaphone of an emerging Cuba against the official discourse, highlights the Festival website. In this sense, the film is dedicated to the exploration of that movement in Cuba, beyond its musical particularities, with emphasis on the urban performer Candyman.
In the case of Antihero, by Patricia Juárez, takes us into the life of the Cuban theater director and writer José Manuel Domínguez and “into the world of people with disabilities.” The Antiheroes Project, headed by Domínguez himself, “has become one of the most influential Latino theater groups in South Florida,” and its work “transcends awareness about people with disabilities, their challenges, and the right to inclusion.” ” declares the film’s synopsis.
As an investigation into the past of Tamara Segura herself, director of Security, this documentary narrates the complex relationships he had with his alcoholic and violent father. However, after four years away from her, Tamara returns to Cuba to try to forgive him, and he dies a few days after her arrival.
The debut feature of director Alán González, The wild woman, with a successful tour of international festivals, can also be enjoyed within the film event. As well as other long fiction films such as The oceans are the true continentsby Tommaso Santambrogio, and The Geeksby Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz.
The latter, based on real events, takes us into a group of geeks who “deliberately inject themselves with HIV to live in a government-run treatment center,” where they hope for “possible relief from the effects of the economic crisis.” ”. In the sanatorium “they create their own utopia to live and play music freely,” the plot describes.
The shorts Union of Kingsby Danny Pino and Objects of Desireby Alejandro Rentería, complete the proposals for Cuba within the Miami Festival, which extends to venues such as Knight Concert Hall, Silverspot Cinema, Regal South Beach, Coral Gables Art Cinema and Bill Cosford Cinema.