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Fito’s Havana
Juan Pin Vilar
Synopsis
In the late 1980s, Argentine rock icon Fito Páez first visited Havana, invited by Pablo Milanés. His presence at a music festival shook the island, to which he’d return many times. For him, it was love at first sight. Thirty years later, sitting on the terrace of a traditional hotel in Havana, Fito recounts his story with Cuba, its music, its people as well as its complex reality and its contradictions.
Programming
October 31st
Paris/ Maison de l’Amérique latine / 217 Bd Saint-Germain, 75007 Paris, France
19:30 (GMT+1)
November 1st
Cuba/ Festhome/ festhome.com
20:00 (GMT-4)
November 2nd
Cuba/ Festhome/ festhome.com
20:00 (GMT-4)
November 3rd
Cuba/ Festhome/ festhome.com
20:00 (GMT-4)
About the film
Production:
Ricardo Figueredo
Genre:
Documentary
Languages:
Spanish
Production Companies:
Cooperativa Producciones
Cinematography:
Raúl Prado
Screenplay:
Juan Pin Vilar
Editing:
Marian Quintana
Sound Design:
Velia Díaz de Villalvilla
Music:
Fito Páez
Cast:
N/A
Festival Track:
Ventana Sur, Festival de Málaga, Censurados Film Festival, Festival de Cine Global, LATcinema Fest Casa América Catalunya, BAFICI.
About the director
Juan Pin Vilar
Juan Pin Vilar is a Cuban director, writer and producer. He has a degree in Art History from the University of Havana and has directed more than one hundred broadcasts in different genres for Cuban television. During a stay in Mexico, he collaborated with various publications and produced six special broadcasts about Cuba for the program What do you think? on Televisa San Ángel (1996). His works have also been broadcast on public and private television stations in the United States and Spain. Founder of the company Xpin Producciones. In 2017 he directed the documentary Pablo Milanés. His latest work, La Habana de Fito (2023) has been at the center of an internationally renowned debate on censorship and the role of artists and intellectuals in Cuba today.
