SANTA & ANDRÉS

SANTA Y ANDRÉS

By Carlos LECHUGA

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Social issues - Completed 2017

The story of an improbable friendship between a revolutionary country girl and a noncompliant gay writer she has to watch over for three consecutive days.

Festivals
& Awards

Toronto - TIFF 2016
San Sebastian 2016
Zurich FF 2016
Chicago IFF 2016
Goteborg IFF 2017
Miami IFF 2017
Guadalajara FICG 2017
Toulouse (ARCALT) 2017
    • Year of production
    • 2017
    • Genres
    • Social issues, Drama
    • Countries
    • CUBA
    • Languages
    • SPANISH
    • Duration
    • 105 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Carlos LECHUGA
    • Producer(s)
    • Claudia CALVIÑO, Samuel CHAUVIN, Carlos LECHUGA, Gustavo PAZMIN, Alejandro TOVAR
    • Synopsis
    • In 1983, in a rural mountain region of Eastern Cuba, Andrés--a non-compliant gay writer in his fifties--has been blacklisted by the government for having "ideological problems." A big event comes up and, as it is routine in these cases, someone reliable must be appointed to watch over him and make sure he does not get out and make any public political statement. Santa - a country girl in her thirties who works in a farm - is assigned to the task. For three days in a row, Santa will sit in front of Andrés' hut and keep watch on him. Santa and Andrés are as close as it gets to being true opposites and are not meant to like each other. What they cannot imagine, however, is that they have more things in common than they expect.