10th edition CIFF – 10-14 April 2024

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Santa y Andrés (Santa & Andres) (2017 Feature Film)

Carlos Lechuga | Cuba, Colombia, France | 2016 | color | DCP | 105 min | Spanish | e.s.

In Cuba in 1983 an improbable friendship develops between a homosexual author and the obedient government official who has to ‘babysit’ the former for three days. Subtle drama demonstrates how politics can drive people apart and how essential human contact can obviate that distance.
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One day, a woman with a chair arrives at Andrés’s tumbledown shack, somewhere on a hill in Eastern Cuba. She has to watch him for three days. A big ‘peace forum’ is being held and with all the foreign press in Cuba, the authorities don’t want homosexual, dissident authors like Andrés walking around.

Santa y Andrés is a painful depiction of how, in the 1980s, the work of homosexual intellectuals and artists was made impossible in Cuba. This is the second film by filmmaker Carlos Lechuga, who is a member of a new generation of independent Cuban filmmakers. Santa & Andrés provides a critical take on the past – which is why it wasn’t screened during the film festival in Havana – yet is primarily a wonderfully acted, personal drama about the slow rapprochement between two polar opposites. A delightful, subtle film about friendship in a society where trust is about as scarce as clothes.

Place: CINEMA 5

Date: 5 April 2017

Time: 21:00

Duration: 1:20

Place: CINEMA 4

Date: 6 April 2017

Time: 14:30

Duration: 1:22

Place: CINEMA 3

Date: 8 April 2017

Time: 19:45

Duration: 1:18

Year in
Festival

2017

Director

Carlos Lechuga

Camera

Javier Labrador

Cast

Lola Amores
Eduardo Martínez
George Abreu
Luna Tinoco
Cesar Domínguez
Ederlys Rodriguez Perez
Maikel Alexi Sánchez

Country

Cuba
Colombia
France

Editor

Joanna Montero

Language

Spanish

Length

105 min

Music

Santiago Barbosa Cañón

Producer

Claudio Calviño
Carlos Lechuga

Production Company

Producciones de la 5ta Avenida

Production Design

Alain Ortiz

Sales

Habanero Film Sales

Scenario

Carlos Lechuga

Sound Design

Daniel ‘Gato’ Garcés Najar

Year of Production

2016

Website

www.habanerofilmsales.com/portfolio/santa-y-andres

Writer-filmmaker Carlos LECHUGA (1983, Cuba) studied at the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana and specialized in scriptwriting at the Cuban Film and TV school (EICTV). His short films have won various awards at home and abroad. His debut film Melaza premiered at IFFR 2013. Santa y Andrés/Santa & Andres is his second film.

 

Filmography

Cuca y el pollo (2005, short), Los Baldwin (2006, short), F for Favor (2007, short), Los bañistas (2010, short), Planeta cerquillo (2010, short), Melaza (2012), Santa y Andrés/Santa & Andres (2016)