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Roads of Lava
Gretel Marín Palacio
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.
Programming
November 3rd
Berkeley/ Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) / 2155 Center St, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
14:00 (GMT-7)
About the film
Production:
Gretel Marín Palacio y Carla Valdés León
Genre:
Documentary
Languages:
Spanish
Production Companies:
Micromundo
Cinematography:
Claudia Remedios Suárez
Screenplay:
Gretel Marín Palacio
Editing:
Gretel Marín Palacio y Adelaida Sancristóbal
Sound Design:
Martha Suzana
Music:
Nulyra
Cast:
Afibola Sifunola, Olorun Sile
Festival Track:
Oberhausen International Short Film Festival (Principal Prize of the International Jury), IndieLisboa, Festival de Málaga, MiradasDoc (Best Short Film), Cinélatino - Rencontres de Toulouse.
About the director
Gretel Marín Palacio
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.
