Our 2021 cinema festival offers an unvarnished and complex portrait of a country viewed through different prisms. This year’s program includes a series of groundbreaking shorts and documentaries and two feature films, spanning a wide range of themes revealing Cuba inside out: a potential escape to another planet; an exile’s return to reconcile with a father who is no longer alive; a raw depiction of the crumbling housing of Havana residents; the existential angst of transgender men; the many faces of religious faith surrounding the Santuario del Cobre in Santiago; a classically-trained musician’s incursion into mambo and jazz in present-day Berlin; the desperate adoption of a lion for a chance to move into a decent home; an intimate and moving portrait of different women in Camagüey; the heartrending story of a gay writer and his resiliency under censorship and surveillance; and a profile of the one surviving member of the fabled Cuban pop group from the 1960’s and 1970’s, Los Zafiros.
The filmmakers include Arturo Infante, Raúl Prado, Ricardo Figueredo, Liam Durán, Gustavo Pérez, Ricardo Bacallao, Oneyda González, Carlos Lechuga, and Jorge Dalton, all of whom will be joining us in live Q&A Zoom sessions from Lisbon, Havana, Brussels, Miami, Berlin and El Salvador.
Each film will be shown twice during the festival, including select Q&As with the director, as noted below. All films are in Spanish with English subtitles, except for the cult film Herido de sombras.
Thursday 26
The Extraordinary Journey of Celeste García 5 pm
Followed by a Q&A with director Arturo Infante
Alberto 7:30 pm and Rojo, Amarillo, Verde (U.S. Premiere) 8 pm
Followed by a Q&A with directors Raúl Prado and Ricardo Figueredo
Friday 27
Mi alma azul (U.S. Premiere) 4 pm
Followed by a Q&A with director Liam Durán
Ave María (U.S. Premiere) 7 pm
Saturday 28
Playing Mambo with Mozart and Mondongo (NYC Premieres) 2 pm
Followed by a Q&A with Ricardo Bacallao, director of both films
Santa y Andrés 4 pm
Entrando en el baile (U.S. Premiere) 7 pm
Sunday 29
The Extraordinary Journey of Celeste García 5 pm
Followed by a Q&A with award-winning actress and film protagonist María Isabel Díaz Lago
Herido de sombras (NYC Premiere) 7:30 pm
Ave María (U.S. Premiere) 8 pm
Followed by a Q&A with director Gustavo Pérez
Monday 30
Alberto 6:30 pm
Rojo, Amarillo, Verde (U.S. Premiere) 7 pm
Mi alma azul (U.S. Premiere) 7:30 pm
Tuesday 31
Playing Mambo with Mozart (NYC Premiere) 6 pm
Mondongo Cubano (NYC Premiere) 6:30 pm
Entrando en el baile (U.S. Premiere) 7:30 pm
Followed by a Q&A with director Oneyda González
Wednesday 1
Herido de sombras (NYC Premiere) 6 pm
Followed by a Q&A with director Jorge Dalton
Santa y Andrés 8 pm
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‘CUBA INSIDE OUT’ FILM SERIES PROGRAM
This event is presented in association with Anthology Film Archives
http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/
And Instituto Cervantes
And is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
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