Preceded by an optional dinner reception (separate $30 admission) featuring Cuban cuisine from El Oriental de Cuba. Purchase tickets to the dinner here.
New England premiere
A Cuban teenager cares for his beloved grandmother and develops his first crush during the summer of 1994, when the collapse of the Soviet Union and the ensuing shortage of food, supplies, and electricity compels people to make the perilous journey to the US by boat. Set in the director's rural hometown of Gibara and loosely based on his experiences, the film is not only a coming-of-age story, but also a memory of a time in the not-so-distant past that is still quite relevant today.
Speaker: Denisse Delgado Vazquez, a sociologist originally from Cuba, who is currently a PhD candidate in public policy at UMass Boston.
Directed by Armando Capó
Cuba, Costa Rica, France | Spanish with subtitles | 2019 | 85 min.
