BARACOA

By Pablo BRIONES, The Moving PICTURE BOYS

C-SIDE PRODUCTIONS - as PROD

Documentary - Completed 2019

In a quiet Cuban village, Leonel, an introspective boy, contemplates change as his older friend Antuán moves to the city.

Festivals
& Awards

Sheffield Doc/Fest 2019
Adventure
Berlinale - EFM 2019
Generation + Glashütte Original Documentary Award Nomination
Festival de Malaga 2019
Documentales Competicion - Biznaga de Plata (Audience Prize)
CPH:DOX 2019
Highlights
Sheffield Doc Fest 2019
Youth Jury Award Competition
    • Year of production
    • 2019
    • Genres
    • Documentary, First film
    • Countries
    • SWITZERLAND, USA, SPAIN
    • Languages
    • SPANISH
    • Duration
    • 90 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Pablo BRIONES, The Moving PICTURE BOYS
    • Producer(s)
    • Benjamin POUMEY (C-Side Productions)
    • Synopsis
    • During summer break, Leonel and Antuán intimately explore their universe far from adults in the countryside of a small Cuban town. With a considerable difference in age, their unique friendship is torn between games and fights, conversations about everyday life, existentialist questions, simple pleasures and boredom.
      As his older friend is drawn to the busy life of the city, Leonel is forced to examine his life and place in the world.
      While Cuban society is going through a transitional period, the two friends also come to a crossroads.