Without Havana (2021)
- Original title
- Sin La Habana
- Directed by
- Kaveh Nabatian
- Country
- Canada
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A ballet dancer in Cuba feels trapped and wants to emigrate to advance his career. He and his girlfriend hatch a plan for him to seduce a Canadian tourist so she will take him to Canada. Both secretly want to end their relationship too.
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What happens
Sin La Habana is a Canadian-Cuban drama film, directed by Kaveh Nabatian and released in 2020. The film stars Yonah Acosta as Leonardo, a ballet dancer in Cuba who feels stifled and in need of emigration to another country to advance his career. He and his girlfriend Sara (Evelyn O’Farrill) devise a plan for the duo to get out of Cuba by having Leonardo seduce Nasim (Aki Yaghoubi), a tourist from Montreal, so that she will take him back to Canada with her and then he can send for Sara once he's settled in; however, both Leonardo and Sara are secretly also looking for ways to break off their relationship. The film premiered at the 2020 Festival du nouveau cinéma, before going into commercial release in September 2021. Sin la Habana received positive reviews from film critics. It holds a 91% rating on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes and was a New York Times Critic's Pick. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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