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IN THE HEAT OF THE COLD YEARS

À LA CHALEUR DES ANNÉES FROIDES

By Darius KAUFMANN, Eytan JAN

AMOK FILMS - as PROD

Social issues - Completed 2023

- Year of production
- 2023
- Genres
- Social issues, Documentary
- Countries
- FRANCE
- Languages
- SPANISH
- Duration
- 84 mn
- Director(s)
- Darius KAUFMANN, Eytan JAN
- Writer(s)
- Antoine GOLDET, Darius KAUFMANN, Eytan JAN
- Producer(s)
- Antoine GOLDET (AMOK FILMS)
- Synopsis
- In Havana in the nineteen sixties, there were 140 movie theaters. Only a dozen remain today. For ten years, the cinema industry was a pillar of the Cuban Revolution, but the regime’s hardening and the economic recession precipitated its decline. Fifty years later, only a dozen movie theaters are still running in Havana, while a new generation of bold filmmakers struggles for the very existence of Cuban cinema. In the Heat of the Cold Years tells the story of Revolutionary Cuban cinema through the memories of a choral of elder filmmakers, such as Luciano Castillo, the director of the national film archives, as he scrambles for the preservation of this crumbling cultural legacy, and through a group of young Cuban filmmakers struggling to make their first feature film.