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Viva Cuba (2005)

Viva Cuba poster
Directed by
Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti
Genre
comedy film
Country
Cuba, France
Runtime
1h 19m
Rating
6.9 of 10 from 45 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

Two young friends in Cuba set out on a journey across the island. The story sees the world through their eyes as they try to keep a friendship alive.

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What happens

Viva Cuba is a 2005 Cuban tragicomedy film, directed and co-written by Juan Carlos Cremata, with Manolito Rodriguez as the other co-writer. It was the first Cuban film to be awarded the ‘Grand Prix Écrans Juniors’ for children's cinema at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. In Viva Cuba, a road movie fairy tale, Cremata tackles localized Cuban problems from the literal point of view of the country's children. He lowers the camera to the eye level of the film's protagonists, Malú (Malú Tarrau Broche) and Jorgito (Jorgito Miló Ávila). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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