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THE BLACK BOX

LA CAJA NEGRA

TUES 5/23 @ 7:10PM
Instituto Cervantes NY
 

Free & open to the public

Presented in collaboration with the Instituto Cervantes New York

Director
Enrique (Kiki) Álvarez
Country
Cuba
Year
2022
Genre
Fiction
Length
93 min.
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The U.S. Premiere of Cuban filmmaker Kiki Álvarez's newest feature paints a slow-burning love story set in the years immediately following the Cuban Revolution in January of 1959. La Caja Negra (the Black Box) is a secret diary written by Elsa and read by her granddaughter several decades later, a film about a young woman who finds and reads the experiential, emotional and political legacy that her grandmother has left hidden like a magical object.”

TUES. 5/23

@ 7:10 PM

Event is free & open to the public.

Registration is appreciated but not required.

Instituto Cervantes NY 

211 E 49th Street

New York, NY 10017

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KIKI
ÁLVAREZ

Enrique (Kiki) Álvarez was born in Havana in 1961. He has degrees in Art History, Communication Theory and Screenwriting. He is currently head of the Directing Program at the International Film and Television School (EICTV). He has directed internationally acclaimed video-art, short and feature-length films, among them “La Ola”, “Jirafas” (Giraffes) which premiered in Rotterdam, “Venecia” -the first Cuban film produced through crowdfunding (premiered in Toronto), and “Sharing Stella”. "La Caja Negra" / "The Black Box" is his most recent feature.

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