Vicenta B Y The Padilla case by Cuban filmmakers Carlos Lechuga and Pavel Giroud, respectively, are the two Cuban films included this year in the Horizontes Latinos section of the San Sebastian Film Festival, to be held in the Spanish city from September 16 to 24.
In the case of Lechuga’s third film, it is one of the four films presented this year, coming from the previous edition of the WIP Latama space dedicated to supporting the production of Latin American films.
Lechuga participated in Horizontes Latinos in 2016 with Santa and Andrew and now go back to the section with Vicenta Bthat He received in 2021 the EGEDA Platinum Industry Award for the Best WIP Latam. It tells the story of Vicenta Bravo, who has the special gift of reading cards and unraveling the future, and every day she receives people who are looking for a solution to her problems.
«Vicenta lives in harmony with her son, until he decides to leave Cuba and then everything begins to fall apart. Immersed in a crisis that does not allow her to glimpse what is happening around her, Vicenta will depart on a trip to the interior of a country where everyone seems to have lost faith », she specifies published review on the official site of the event.
Vicenta B: «A film about the right of everyone to be as they want»
Giroud, for his part, had already premiered Omerta (2008) on the Basque Film Day at the San Sebastian Festival, in addition to winning the Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum award for the project the escort (2013).
the padilla case it turns out a film of non-fiction about the Cuban poet Heberto Padilla and what happened in Havana in 1971, when the well-known poet was released and appeared before the Cuban writers’ guild, “where he sings a ‘heartfelt self-criticism,’ declaring himself a counterrevolutionary agent and He accuses many of his colleagues present there, including his wife, of complicity,” the site specifies.
“The mea culpa of the writer, whose recording is being shown to the public for the first time, marks the narrative line of a story in which testimonies of Gabriel García Márquez, Julio Cortázar, Mario Vargas Llosa, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jorge Edwards and Fidel Castro appear”, he adds. information.
This year Horizontes Latinos will host 12 films from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba and Mexico, feature films premiered in Spain, produced in Latin America and directed by filmmakers of Latin origin or whose setting or theme is Latin communities from the rest of the world. world.
The films in competition are eligible for the Horizontes Award, endowed with 35,000 euros destined for the director and the distributor in Spain, and in the case of the films in the Horizontes Latinos section that are the first or second of their director or director, also compete for the TCM Youth Award, awarded by a jury made up of 150 students between the ages of 18 and 25.
