Anna Marie de la Fuente Brazil’s Habanero Film Sales has brought a slate of new films marking their debut at Cannes’ Marché du Film.
Leading the pack is Cuban filmmaker Carlos Lechuga’s latest drama, “Vicenta B” as well as Cuba-U.S.-Canada co-production “Corrosive” and Brazilian coming-of-age drama “Bittersweet Rain” (“Saudade Fez Morada Aqui Dentro”), currently in post.“Resistance, migration, those who stay and those who leave, finding out who we are, where we belong, finding meaning to our own existence…those are recurrent topics in our catalog, composed of features and a growing slate of social and environmental documentaries from Latin American and Caribbean directors, with a special focus on Cuban independent cinema,” said Habanero CEO, Alfredo Calviño.
Last year, “Vicenta B.” snagged the largest cash industry prize at San Sebastian Film Festival’s industry awards, the Egeda Platino Industry Award for the Best Work in Progress (WIP), Latin American film.While also a reflection on the current state of affairs in Cuba, “Vicenta B” is unlikely to cause as much of a stir as his 2016 drama “Santa y Andres.” Despite being initially selected to play at the 38th Int’l Festival of New Latin American Cinema in Havana, it was rejected by fest backer ICAIC, Cuba’s state-run film institute, irked by its storyline about an unlikely friendship between a gay novelist under house arrest and the revolutionary peasant woman sent to mind him.
It has never been released in Cuba given that ICAIC also handles distribution in the communist island nation.“Topics such as soul searching, crises of faith, family isolation are common in Western arthouse cinema.
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