Shot with beautiful black and white photography in the Cuban city of San Antonio de los Baños, the film earned Santambrogio the Bisato d’Oro Award for best direction at the 80th Venice International Film Festival.
The oceans are the true continents (2023), which will be shown this Saturday morning at the Yara cinema, is an expanded version of his short film of the same name, awarded at the Venice International Critics’ Week in 2019 and shown later in several international festivals.
In a two-hour journey, the viewer is an accomplice in the love between Alex (Alexander Diego) and Edith (Edith Ybarra Clara), a young couple who live their romance made of small everyday gestures, stories from the past, nostalgia and deep intimacy.
Added to them are the stories of Milagros (Milagros Llanes Martínez), a retiree who sells peanut cones; and Frank (Frank Ernesto Lam) and Alain (Alain Alfonso González), two nine-year-old friends who dream of emigrating to the United States to play in Major League Baseball (MLB).
Regarding the film, which opened the 20th Giornate degli Autori, specialized critics point out that there are certain images to which we are exposed as children and remain engraved in our memory forever.
This was the case of the young filmmaker, who said in an interview that he witnessed a heartbreaking hug between a father and his daughter when he was eight years old, at an airport in Cuba.
From this image, knowing the people of Cuba, knowing that migration, forced and forced separation is something intrinsic and characteristic of the entire society, I decided that I wanted to work on this issue, he expressed.
Under the slogan of Luz Verde: Action!, the largest encounter with the seventh art in the country will invade the lives of moviegoers and the main cinemas of this capital until December 17, together with large screens on the central 23rd Avenue They showcase for the first time the best of the region’s cinema.
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2023-12-09 12:22:15
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