MIAMI, United States. — This Monday the documentary was released at Silverspot Cinema in the city of Miami The Padilla Casewritten and directed by Cuban filmmaker Pavel Giroud.
The audiovisual piece was presented within the framework of the Miami Film Festival, an event that has hosted numerous productions related to Cuban issues.
The Padilla Case is a 78-minute Cuban-Spanish co-production that recreates everything that happened around the imprisonment of the poet Heberto Padilla by the Castro regime and his subsequent mea culpa, where he declares himself a counterrevolutionary agent and names many friends, including his wife, as such.
According to various reviews, it is a surprising documentary that opens a window to the past and offers information on the current crisis in Cuba.
“The problem that Padilla experienced is very topical. We are talking about censorship, we are talking about freedom, about the role of intellectuals, of creators, of writers, ”he declared to CubaNet the Cuban writer and screenwriter Alejandro Hernández, who was involved in the production and script of the documentary.
The announcement of the premiere of the documentary revived the controversy in the media and social networks around the figure of Heberto Padilla and the events that triggered his mea culpa in the 1970s of the last century.
“The entire film is told from the point of view of Heberto Padilla and in the last stretch there is some debate about leaving Miami, but not the reasons for his departure,” Cuban filmmaker Pavel Giroud told the Telemundo network prior to the presentation of the material at the Miami Film Festival.
The documentary The Padilla Case It was sponsored by the FlixLatino platform, the Spanish Cultural Center in Miami and by TV5Monde USA.
