A filmmaker returns to his village to make a film about the death of a whale. He is excited to meet again with his old masters who are close to the end of their lives. They are an interesting lot. One is a painter obsessed with light. The other is a taxidermist who preserved the whale and finally, a musician who has not played the piano for fifteen years. His hometown, like the rest of Cuba, is now a place of ghosts besieged by death where you find anything but hope. These wise old men, among paintings, rust, bones and waiting like whales, have decided the place where they wish to die. For the director, this journey is a farewell to the country. He is pushed into escaping to a new destination to keep his hopes alive.
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Un cineasta regresa a su pueblo para realizar una película sobre la muerte de una ballena. Le motiva rencontrarse con sus antiguos maestros ya cercanos al final. Un pintor obsesionado con la luz. El taxidermista que conservó a la ballena y un músico que hace quince años que no toca el piano. El lugar como toda Cuba, es ahora un sitio de fantasmas asediados por la muerte donde no queda ya esperanza. Estos hombres sabios y viejos, entre pinturas, herrumbres, huesos y esperas como las ballenas han decidido el lugar donde desean morir. Para el director este viaje es una despedida del país, debe escapar hacia un nuevo destino para poder tener una esperanza.
VILLAGE EAST CINEMA
Festivals & Awards
Armando Capó
Armando Capó (Gibara, Cuba) Graduate of Painting and EICTV in documentary. August, his Fiction Opera Prima premiered in Toronto and was later screened in San Sebastian and won the Coral Award in Havana.
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Gibara. Cuba. Graduado de Pintura y de la EICTV en documental. Agosto, su Opera Prima de Ficción se estrenó en Toronto y luego fue exibida en San Sebastián hasta alcanzar el premio Coral en La Habana
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