10th edtion CIFF – 10-14 April 2024
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FILMS 2017: A – E | F – L | M – P | Q – S | T – Z | Feature Film | Short Film
FILMS 2016: A – E | F – L | M – P | Q – S | T – Z | Feature Film | Short Film
FILMS 2015: A – E | F – L | M – P | Q – S | T – Z | Feature Film | Short Film
Carlos Lechuga | Cuba, Colombia, France | 2016 | color | DCP | 105 min | Spanish | e.s.
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
Production Design
Alain Ortiz
Sales
Scenario
Carlos Lechuga
Sound Design
Daniel ‘Gato’ Garcés Najar
Year of Production
2016
Website
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)