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CUBAN DANCER

By Roberto SALINAS

FILMOPTION INTERNATIONAL - as SALES All rights, World / DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline, World, CANADA

Documentary - Completed 2020

A passionate coming of age ballet tale, danced between Cuba and the U.S.A, in a time of change.

Festivals
& Awards

Alice nella città 2020

Official Selection

Havana International Film Festival 2020

Official Selection

Miami International Film Festival 2021

Night Made in MIA Award

Nevada City Film Festival 2021

Best Musical Score Award

San Francisco International Film Festival 2021

Audience Award

Visions du Réel 2021

Official Selection

DOK.fest Munich 2021

Official Selection

DOCSBARCELONA 2021

Official Selection

- Year of production
- 2020
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- CANADA
- Languages
- SPANISH, ENGLISH
- Duration
- 90 mn
- Director(s)
- Roberto SALINAS
- Writer(s)
- Roberto SALINAS
- Producer(s)
- Paul CADIEUX (FILMOPTION INTERNATIONAL), Simone CATANIA
- Synopsis
- Alexis is a 15 year old talented and proud student of the National Ballet School of Cuba. He spends his life practicing chassé and entrechats with his girlfriend and dance partner Yelenia. However, when his parents move to Florida to be reunited with his sister, his happy teenage world is turned upside down. He’s forced to leave behind Cuba, his colleagues at school, his relatives and his beloved girlfriend.
  Facing rejection and homesick for his native Cuba, Alexis feels lost and alone. When he gets accepted in the prestigious Harid Ballet school he has to start all over. He doesn’t speak the language, has no friends and his Cuban style of ballet does not match the American school method. Meanwhile, his parents are making sacrifices for his career working extra hours at their humble jobs. Alexis knows that he has to find his way quickly in the bourgeois and elitist world of American ballet while trying to remain faithful to his roots.