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Persona
Eliecer Jiménez Almeida
Synopsis
A prostrate old man. An absent son. A Catholic gravedigger and ex-convict who doesn't receive social forgiveness. A mother who suffers the loss of her son, disappeared at sea, trying to reach the United States. A writer determined to go into self-exile at home, out of cultural resistance, feeling his singularity suffocated. Five individualities, five intimate stories, united and indivisible only by the human condition. Everything takes place in a common day in which five people without an official social voice speak and show their lives.
Programming
October 26th
Berkeley/ Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) / 2155 Center St, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
19:00 (GMT-7)
About the film
Production:
Eliecer Jiménez Almeida, Angélica M. Loucraft, Edgar Soberón y Ricardo Figueredo
Genre:
Documentary
Languages:
Spanish
Production Companies:
ikaik films, Cooperativa Producciones, CIMAS
Cinematography:
Eliecer Jiménez Almeida
Screenplay:
Eliecer Jiménez Almeida
Editing:
Eliecer Jiménez Almeida
Sound Design:
Eliecer Jiménez Almeida
Music:
N/A
Cast:
N/A
Festival Track:
Documenta Fifteen; Cuban Cinema under Censorship (MoMA); Festival Internacional de Cine de Gibara (Honorable Mention).
About the director
Eliecer Jiménez Almeida
Eliecer Jiménez Almeida is a Cuban independent filmmaker and video artist based in Miami. He founded ikaik films in 2008 to produce experimental films. His documentary Veritas (2022) debuted at the 39th Miami Film Festival and has been in the PBS catalog since 2024. His other works include Entropía (2013), Person (2014), and Now! (2016), all screened at Documenta 15. Persona won the Best Short Film Award at the Latino and Iberian Film Festival at Yale and was screened at MoMA in New York and the Ludwig Forum in Germany. Usufruct (2011) received the Special Prize at the Gibara International Film Festival, and The Face of the Waters (2012) won the Best Short Film Award at the Handle Climate Change International Film Festival in China. He holds a Master's Degree in Mass Communication from Florida International University and a Certificate in Film Studies from the International Film and TV School of San Antonio de los Baños. He participated in the Sundance Institute's Documentary Film Program in 2016.
