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Parole
Lázaro J. González
Synopsis
Amidst the bustling streets of San Francisco, WhatsApp audio messages become my sole connection to my mother after several years of exile. Now, her yearning for reunion hinges on the fragile hope of the Biden Administration’s Humanitarian Parole for Cubans. Despite everybody around her leaving, she urges me to listen to what I left behind. As I wrestle with the dissonance of academic challenges and the relentless hum of rent worries, my response takes the form of a love letter that echoes my present.
Programming
October 28th
Cuba/ Festhome/ festhome.com
24h
October 29th
Cuba/ Festhome/ festhome.com
24h
October 30th
Cuba/ Festhome/ festhome.com
24h
October 31st
Cuba/ Festhome/ festhome.com
24h
October 31st
Cuba/ Festhome/ festhome.com
24h
November 1st
Cuba/ Festhome/ festhome.com
24h
November 2nd
Cuba/ Festhome/ festhome.com
24h
November 2nd
Berkeley/ Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) / 2155 Center St, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
19:00 (GMT-7)
November 2nd
Barcelona/ Zumzeig Cinema/ C/ de Béjar, 53, 08014 Barcelona, Spain
21:45 (GMT+2)
November 3rd
Cuba/ Festhome/ festhome.com
24h
About the film
Production:
Lázaro J. González
Genre:
Documentary
Languages:
Spanish
Production Companies:
Encuadre Films
Cinematography:
Lázaro J. González
Screenplay:
Lázaro J. González
Editing:
Lázaro J. González
Sound Design:
Emilio Polo
Music:
N/A
Cast:
Lázaro J. González, Elena González, María Cabrera
Festival Track:
Cuban Cinema without Borders (BAMPFA); Seattle Latino Film Festival; Latino and Iberian Film Festival at Yale (LIFFY); San Francisco Latino Film Festival; Society for Visual Anthropology Film and Media Festival; Premio Eisner de Berkeley (Mención Honorífica); Archipiélago Fílmico (CDMX); Vitafest; Caribbean International Film Festival (UK); Diaspora Film Festival.
About the director
Lázaro J. González
Lázaro J. González is a Cuban filmmaker and Ph.D. candidate in Film and Media Studies at UC Berkeley. He holds a Master of Arts in Literature, Cultures, and Languages from the University of Connecticut and a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from the University of Havana. He also honed his craft through training programs at the EICTV of San Antonio de Los Baños, Cuba, and the Sundance Documentary Lab. In 2022, González served as a Visiting Artist-in-Residence at the Vulnerable Media Lab at Queen's University. He has directed the shorts Tatá (2014), Masks (2015), and Pāndèmos (2021), and feature film Pink Village (2016), which received the Best Documentary Award at Yale's Latino and Iberian Film Festival and the Audience Award at the Barcelona International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.
