SANTA & ANDRES
Florida Premiere
Country: Colombia, Cuba, France
Language: Spanish
Subtitles: English
Original Title: SANTA Y ANDRÉS
Running Time: 105min
Film Year: 2016
Category: Knight Competition
Set in 1983, the second feature from Cuban writer-director Carlos Lechuga (Melaza) chronicles an encounter between Andrés, a novelist ostracized for his “ideological problems” and his sexuality, and Santa, a woman charged with keeping this ostensibly dangerous dissident from disrupting a political event and gaining the attention of the foreign press.
Santa & Andrés is at once intimate and expansive, a chamber drama whose central action is a dialogue between two souls on either side of a profound cultural divide. Proximity inevitably prompts captive and warden to realize how much they have in common—and how completely the last six decades have affected the Cuban psyche.
This film is also featured in the 2017 Film Festival’s HBO Ibero American Competition Film Category
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credits
Director: Carlos Lechuga
Producer: Claudia Calviño
Screenwriter: Carlos Lechuga
Executive Producer: Claudia Calviño
Music: Santiago Barbosa Cañon
Cinematographer: Javier Labrador
Editor: Joanna Montero