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Bajo un sol poderoso (Beneath A Powerful Sun)

Bajo un sol poderoso (Beneath A Powerful Sun)

Bajo un sol poderoso (Beneath A Powerful Sun)

Dir. Enrique Kiki Alvarez
87 min

16th Minnesota Cuban Film Festival

Wednesday, May 28 at 7:00pm

Discussion follows the screening.

ABOUT THE FILM

The film was shot in Havana and tells the story of a filmmaker overwhelmed by loneliness who deals with several ex-partners and protagonists of his previous films until a conflict breaks out that is very difficult to resolve.

For the director Enrique Kiki Alvarez, it is a “regressive log of my archives and my memory. It is me and my ghosts, my desires, my losses, my frustrations. A personal itinerary that is also the itinerary of a generation, of an era,” Álvarez told the IPS agency in an interview.

He said that the film is in some way a tribute to the French director Jean-Luc Godard, since part of the title comes from a phrase from a character in his film L´amour: “A single couple under a powerful sun and with a single desire, sunken at the feet of their own image. An infinite couple.”

Film Details

Program: Minnesota Cuban Film Festival
Film Type: Fiction Feature
Release Year: 2022
Runtime: 87 min
Country/Region: Cuba
Language: Spanish
Tags: Coming-of-Age, Culture & Society, Relationships

Cast/Crew

Director: Enrique Kiki Alvarez
Producer: Ivette Liang, Nicolás Ordóñez, Kiki Álvarez
Cinematographer: Nicolás Ordoñez
Screenwriter: Kiki Álvarez, Liana Domínguez
Editor: Liana Domínguez
Composer: Ulises Hernández
Principal Cast: Tony Alonso, Neisy Alpízar, Xenia Cruz, Verónica López

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Showtimes

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Wednesday, May 28th