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BONGÓ ITÁ

By Mayckell PEDRERO MARIOL

HABANERO - as SALES All rights, World

Second film - Completed 2022

A rare close-up of the Abakuá —an Afro-Cuban religious brotherhood that has been hidden from outsiders until recently.

Festivals
& Awards

World Cinema Amsterdam 2020

GO Cuba! Fund Recipient

World Cinema Amsterdam 2022

Official Selection

Festival del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano 2022

Festival de Cine Cubano en Minnesota 2023

Cuba im Film - Festival de Cine Cubano de Frankfurt 2023

- Year of production
- 2022
- Genres
- Second film, Social issues, Documentary
- Countries
- CUBA
- Languages
- SPANISH
- Budget
- 0.3 - 0.6 M$
- Duration
- 70 mn
- Director(s)
- Mayckell PEDRERO MARIOL
- Writer(s)
- Mayckell PEDRERO MARIOL
- Producer(s)
- Jorge NHILS HERRERA (Q'Bola Producciones)
- Synopsis
- A rare close-up of the Abakuá —an Afro-Cuban religious brotherhood that has been hidden from outsiders until recently. A symbol of resistance for over 200 years, the Abakuá society has managed to survive slavery, the Spanish domination and the Revolution, spite of all the bias and misunderstandings about their traditions and rituals.
  
  PLOT KEYWORDS
  Documentary | Abakuá | memory | Afro-Cuban | religion | slavery | secret society | brotherhood | Cuba | religious & civil liberties | black history