As Cuba faces significant changes, artist Adrian Melis asks his father, a former revolutionary, a series of questions on the current state of his native country. The respondent’s face shows a range of emotions from humour to anxiety but always with avuncular intimacy towards his son.
Also in this combined programme
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Franzosensand
This film enters a hamlet on the German Wadden Sea like a PhD research project, revealing the painful past of this landscape that looks so tidy.
Il quarto giorno di scuola
The director’s father crossed over from Tripoli to Italy as a child. His story aligns seamlessly with that of the current stream of migrants and th
Nos champs
What happens to you when you find out after the Charlie Hebdo attacks that you knew one of the men who went to Syria to join IS?
Galindez
The camera scans the location where the play El señor Galindez premiered in the 1970s. It feels just as oppressive now as it must have done then.
The Asylum
This tranquil film by artist Prapat Jiwarangsan reflects on the necessary search for belonging in the changed face of Thailand since the 2014 coup
Film details
- Countries of production
- Cuba, Netherlands, Spain
- Year
- 2015
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2016
- Length
- 6"
- Medium/Format
- DCP
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