BARACOA

By Pablo BRIONES, Jace FREEMAN, Sean CLARK

PLAYLAB FILMS - as PROD

Action/Adventure - Completed 2019

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

Festivals
& Awards

Berlinale 2019
GENERATION
MALAGA FILM FESTIVAL 2019
OFICIAL COMPETITION - WINNER BIZNAGA DE PLATA
Copenhagen CPH PIX 2019
HIGHLITS SECTION
Sheffield Doc/Fest 2019
OFICIAL COMPETITION - WINNER YOUTH JURY AWARD
Locarno 2019
SWISS PREMIER
FIDBA 2019
LATINAMERICA SECTION
nashville film festival 2019
OFICIAL SELECTION
MidBo 2019
OFICIAL SELECTION
    • Year of production
    • 2019
    • Genres
    • Action/Adventure, Children's, First film
    • Countries
    • SWITZERLAND, USA, SPAIN
    • Languages
    • SPANISH
    • Budget
    • 0.3 - 0.6 M$
    • Duration
    • 90 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Pablo BRIONES, Jace FREEMAN, Sean CLARK
    • Producer(s)
    • Benjamin POUMEY (C-SIDE PRODUCTION), Jace FREEMAN (THE MOVING PICTURE BOYS), Sean CLARK (THE MOVING PICTURE BOYS), Estephania BONNETT (PLAYLAB FILMS)
    • Synopsis
    • Hot summer has come in their tiny village in the Cuban countryside, Leonel and Antuán intimately explore their universe far from adults. 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 the Cuban society is going through a transitional period, the two friends also come to a crossroads.