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The Pure Ones
Carla Valdés León
Title:
The Pure Ones
Synopsis:
They are my parents' friends. The last farewell was in Minsk in 1984. They were going back to Cuba after finishing the five-year career in Marxist-Leninist Philosophy. They returned with the doubts of Perestroika, with the Russian stories and the tea. They foresaw a future that was not. Time put them in different places on the map. Now that they can meet again, they wonder what is the thread that still ties them together?
Director: Carla Valdés León
Year of production: 2021
Country: Cuba
Running Time: 18’
Programming
Monday December 4th to Sunday December 10th
10:00h – 11:44h (GMT-6)
Festhome
Online for Cuba
Tuesday December 5
10:00h (GMT-6)
Laboratorio Arte Alameda
Calle Dr Mora 7, Colonia Centro, Centro, Cuauhtémoc, 06050 Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico
Wednesday December 6
10:00h (GMT-6)
Laboratorio Arte Alameda
Calle Dr Mora 7, Colonia Centro, Centro, Cuauhtémoc, 06050 Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico
Thursday December 7
10:00h (GMT-6)
Laboratorio Arte Alameda
Calle Dr Mora 7, Colonia Centro, Centro, Cuauhtémoc, 06050 Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico
Thursday December 7
17:00h (GMT+1)
Maison de l’Amérique Latine
217 Bd Saint-Germain, 75007 Paris, France
Sunday December 10
21:00h (GMT-3)
Centro Cultural General San Martín
Sarmiento 1551, C1042 ABC, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Production: Carla Valdés León
Genre: Documentary
Languages: Spanish, Russian
Production company: Micromundo
Photography: Carla Valdés León
Editing: Lilmara Cruz Pavón
Screenplay: Lisandra López Fabé
Sound Design: Glenda Martínez Cabrera
Music: Alfred Artigas, Yaíma Orozco
Cast: Félix Valdés García, Yohanka León del Río, Ibis Menéndez, Gilberto Pérez Villacampa, José A. Matos, Odalys Canales, José Álvarez, Iliana Garcés
Festival Selections: World Cinema Amsterdam, Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano (Short Documentary Coral Award), Ibero-American Film Festival Miami (IAFFM), Documenta Fifteen, SHORTS MEXICO, Seattle Latino Film Festival, Festival de Cine Latinoamericano de La Plata (FESAALP).
Director's bio:
Carla Valdés, Cuban documentary filmmaker. Graduated from the University of the Arts of Cuba in 2016. She was a member of the Mezcal Jury in the 30th Guadalajara International Film Festival, 2015, and a Member of the Board at Festival Muestra Joven, Cuba, between 2018 and 2020. She participated in Talents Guadalajara, 2022. She has directed the short documentary films: “The Pure Ones” (2021), which obtained the Coral Award for Best Documentary Short Film in the 42nd Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano, Cuba; and “December days” (2016), Award for Best Documentary at the Muestra Joven, Cuba. Her work has been exhibited at festivals in the Netherlands, Germany, Argentina, Mexico, and the U.S. Her feature-length documentary project "Ante el camino" was selected for the Academia de Cine Residencies, Spain, 2022-2023.
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