Directed by Fernando Pérez
Cuba/Spain | Spanish w/ English subtitles | Documentary | 2003 | 85 min
Film Source: Americas Media Initiative
Sponsor: Anna Blackmer
Showtime: Sunday, October 30 | 1:45 p.m. | BB
Part of the Cuban Cinema Spotlight
Producer Dany Diaz and AMI Director Alex Halkin will be in attendance.
Fernando Pérez, who wrote and directed Suite Habana, is considered by many to be Cuba’s greatest living filmmaker. The film, which explores the boundaries between documentary and fiction, follows 10 people, from dawn until late at night, as they go about their lives in Havana. There is virtually no dialogue, and no voiceover narration — yet Suite Habana probes deeply into the lives of ordinary working-class Cubans in ways that create a complex and open-ended portrait of the city. With a beautiful score by Alejandro Edesio, the movie itself structured like a piece of music. Still accurate and relevant 13 years after its release, this film portrays the Havana that you will not see on any tour. ~AB
Alina, 6 años (Alina, 6 Years Old) will screen before Suite Habana
Directed by Milena Almira and Manuel Benito de Valle| Fiction | 2008 | 5 min
A young girl looking through a family photos album remembers moments in her infancy where nothing is what it appears.
