Works by Cuban filmmaker Ricardo Figueredo are exhibited at the Independent Film Showcase.
By ASERE NOTICIAS – 01 october, 2019
ASERE NOTICIAS

The Hannah Arendt Institute of Artivism presented a showcase of the work of Cuban filmmaker Ricardo Figueredo in the INSTAR series from September 27-29 at its headquarters on Tejadillo Street in Old Havana, which was a great success.
Ricardo Figueredo is one of the many Cuban filmmakers whose work has been censored, but he is not discouraged and assures that he will continue to show the experiences and shortcomings of ordinary Cubans.
For this reason, the Hannah Arendt Institute of Artivism (INSTAR) selected him for the fourth installment of its Directors' Cycle, as part of the Independent Cinema - Cinema Pending exhibition.
Figueredo's works exhibited are those that Cuban film festivals and state-run theaters have declined to show: Despertar and Operación Alfa (2011), La singular historia de Juan sin nada (2016) and La teoría cubana de la sociedad perfecta (2018), the latter screened at the recently concluded Bogotá Human Rights Film Festival.
Figueredo in his documentaries exposes problems experienced by ordinary Cubans, which he presents based on testimonies and interviews, such as the problems generated by the dual currency, the emerging private sector and its difficulties to develop, prostitution, drug use and repression of homosexuals and critical artists, among others.
The filmmaker has participated in a total of 56 works, including the Nicanor O'Donell series, by Eduardo del Llano, and the documentary 50 sueños (2004), by filmmaker Miguel Fernández.
Actress and writer Lynn Cruz, who directs the series, affirms that Figueredo's work is in the tropical dystopia that constitutes the end of the communist paradisiacal dream, "his films are post (...) One realizes that many of the Cubans chosen for Figueredo's films would not know how to live in a new order and that is what is tragic. They even express their own fear of change".
During the presentation of The Cuban Theory of the Perfect Society last Sunday, he announced that he is working on a new documentary on Cuban emigration in its multiple variants and how it has marked the national development in recent decades.
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