Tuesday, May 22, 2018

Bravo Cuban Film Fest

Estela Bravo, US-Cuban film director

Bravo
Cuban Film Fest

A Retrospective of the work of
American-Cuban film-maker Estela Bravo


40 years of Award Winning Documentaries

Saturday May 26, & Sunday May 27, 2018
Palmerston Public Library Theatre

560 Palmerston Ave, (Bathurst & Bloor)

Directors Estela and Ernesto Bravo, coming direct from Havana, will introduce and discuss their work.

"Estela Bravo's films are the work of an intelligent heart: moving, informative, challenging, all at once." Alice Walker, Author

All films are in Spanish with English subtitles

 Admission $10.00 (each double feature)
 Canadian-Cuban Friendship Association Toronto




Bravo Cuban Film Festival

Palmerston Public Library, 560 Palmerston Ave.

Saturday May 26, 6:30 p.m.

Fidel: The Untold Story (2001)

Estela Bravo reveals another side of Fidel through the words of Alice Walker, Sydney Pollack, Muhammad Ali, Harry Belafonte, and others. Juxtaposing the personal and anecdotal with the history of the Cuban revolution, it shows Fidel’s fight against the US blockade, the building of a more just society and Cuba’s solidarity with other people in the world Holy Father and Gloria (1987) An emotionally powerful account of Pope John Paul’s controversial visit to Chile in 1987. It includes his encounter with Carmen Gloria, the young woman who survived being doused with gasoline and set on fire by the military in 1986. Gloria became a symbol of the brutality of the Pinochet dictatorship.

Sunday May 27, 2:00 p.m.
Who Am I? The Found Children of Argentina (2014)

This film deals with victims of Argentina's "Dirty War" (1976-1983). The " Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo". agitated weekly and publicly in Buenos Aires to discover the fate of their loved ones and to recover their kidnapped children. Includes interviews with the found children and others, as well as footage of the trials of those responsible for carrying out state-sponsored violence.

Sunday May 27, 2 p.m.
Operation Peter Pan (2008)

From 1960 to 1962, 14,000 Cuban children were sent alone, by their parents, to the USA in a CIA scheme known as "Operation Peter Pan". Many parents had expected to follow their children, who had been granted visa waivers by the US government, but the Missile Crisis intervened, and the children were stranded in the USA. In 2009, a group of the children, now adults, visited Cuba to give "closure and make peace with the land where they were born”.

Sunday, May 27, 7:00 p.m.
Cuba/South Africa -After the Battle (1991)

For 13 years, Cubans and Angolans fought the South African army in a war that changed the destiny of southern Africa.

Gema de Cuba (2016) - Canadian Premiere (2016)

This film recounts the saga of “the Cuban Five” through the story of one of them: Gerardo Hernández. The film shows his return to Cuba and to his wife Adriana after more than 15 years in a U.S. prison. Gerardo is released just in time for the birth of their first child, Gema, conceived through artificial insemination.

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