Festival de cine INSTAR

Special Presentations

To my father

Miñuca Villaverde

Title: 

To my father

Synopsis:

The filmmaker visits her dying father one last time. A phantasmagorical home movie about the sadness of dying far from home.

Director: Miñuca Villaverde

Year of production: 1973

Country: United States

Running Time: 22

Programming

Monday December 4th to Sunday December 10th

10:00 – 24:00 (GMT-5)

Festhome

Online for Cuba

Thursday December 7

19:00h (GMT-3)

Centro Cultural General San Martín

Sarmiento 1551, C1042 ABC, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Saturday December 9

15:30h (GTM-4h)

e-flux Screening Room

172 Classon Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11205, USA

Production: Miñuca Villaverde

Genre: Documentary

Language: English

Photography: Miñuca Villaverde

Screenplay: Miñuca Villaverde

Editing: Miñuca Villaverde

Sound Design: Miñuca Villaverde

 

 

Festival Selections: documenta fifteen, Ms. en Scene - Women’s Interart Center of New York.

Director's bio:

Miñuca Villaverde, Cuban filmmaker and writer. She worked as an actress and screenwriter in several productions of the Cuban Film Institute (ICAIC), among which “El parque” (1963, documentary) and “Elena” (1964, fiction) stand out. After going into exile in 1965, she directed short films such as “Blanca Puntica, a girl in love” (1973, Individual Independent Fellowship Award from the Creative Artists' Program Service, CAPS), “To my father” (1974) and “Poor Cinderella, still ironing “her husband shirt” (1978), linked to the New York experimental film scene. His documentary “Tent City” (1980), about a refugee camp during the Mariel exodus, is one of the most recognized works of Cuban audiovisual material made in the diaspora. She has published the books “Fue una gran fiesta” (2009, with Fernando Villaverde) and “Los Días de la coleccionista” (2010).

 

 

 

 

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