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Roads of Lava
Gretel Marín Palacio
Title:
Roads of Lava
Synopsis:
Afibola and Olorun live in a house in downtown Havana. She is an afro-feminist poet, activist and queer ; he is her eight-year-old son. Afibola notices that her son's self-confidence is diminished by comments outside the home. She worries that it is something he will always carry with him. In the intimacy of the spaces where they live together, they reflect on the complexities of educating a black child in a racist and discriminatory society.
Director: Gretel Marín Palacio
Year of production: 2023
Country: Cuba
Running Time: 27’
Programming
Monday December 4th to Sunday December 10th
10:00 – 24:00 (GMT-5)
Festhome
Online for Cuba
Thursday December 7
17:00h (GMT+1)
Maison de l’Amérique Latine
217 Bd Saint-Germain, 75007 Paris, France
Friday December 8
14:00h (GMT-6)
Laboratorio Arte Alameda
Calle Dr Mora 7, Colonia Centro, Centro, Cuauhtémoc, 06050 Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico
Saturday December 9
21:00h (GMT-3)
Centro Cultural General San Martín
Sarmiento 1551, C1042 ABC, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Sunday December 10
14:00h (GMT-6)
Laboratorio Arte Alameda
Calle Dr Mora 7, Colonia Centro, Centro, Cuauhtémoc, 06050 Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico
Sunday December 10
14:00h (GMT-3)
Cinemateca Brasileira
Largo Senador Raul Cardoso, 207 Vila Mariana / SP, Brazil.
Production: Gretel Marín Palacio, Carla Valdés León
Genre: Documentary
Language: Spanish
Production company: Micromundo
Photography: Claudia Remedios Suárez
Screenplay: Gretel Marín Palacio
Editing: Gretel Marín Palacio, Adelaida Sancristóbal
Sound Design: Martha Suzana
Music: Nulyra
Cast: Afibola Sifunola, Olorun Sile
Festival Selections: Oberhausen International Short Film Festival (Principal Prize of the International Jury), IndieLisboa, Festival de Málaga, MiradasDoc (Best Short Film), Cinélatino - Rencontres de Toulouse
Director's bio:
Gretel Marín Palacio, Cuban filmmaker. Master in Documentary Film from the Paris Diderot University and BA in Film Directing from the University of the Arts of Cuba. Her short documentaries have been selected by several international festivals. "The Last Country" (2018), her first feature documentary, had its world premiere at the Málaga Film Festival and was selected in competition by the Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival. Between 2014 and 2018 she collaborated as editor and director with the audiovisual production company Geração 80 in Luanda, Angola. She has also produced audiovisual materials for Mosaiko, a civil organization for human rights in Angola.
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