Cuba
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2025
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Color
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106 min

Through the life and songs of Pablo Milanés, the film unfolds as an intimate journey that, nevertheless, resonates far beyond the personal. It's a journey marked by political upheavals, moments of euphoria, and also disillusionment, ultimately reflecting an entire generation that dared —and allowed themselves— to imagine a different world.
But this is not merely a biographical portrait. The film is structured as a close and honest dialogue between a father and his son, where affection, emotional heritage, and the need to understand take center stage. In this process of looking back, the son not only reconstructs his father's story but also begins to recognize himself within it, discovering the roots of his own identity. Thus, the film becomes something broader: a story about art as a form of resistance, about the bonds that span generations, and about memory as a living territory.
Direction:
Fabien Pisani
Cinematography:
Ernesto Pardo, Fabien Pisani
Music:
Yayo González
Language:
Spanish
Production:
Laura Imperiale, Carlos Sosa, Fabien Pisani
Sound:
Álvaro Silva Wuth, Irina Carballosa
Subtitles:
English
Screenplay:
Fabien Pisani
Editing:
Clementina Mantellini, Armando Croda
Cast:
Harry Belafonte, Chico Buarque, Omara Portuondo, Silvio Rodríguez, Chucho Valdés, Fito Páez, Joaquín Sabina, Joan Manuel Serrat, Ana Belén, among others.
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Director, producer, and cultural manager born in Havana in 1971. A graduate of the Guadalajara Talent Campus and the Sundance Screenwriters Lab in Oaxaca. In 2011, he developed and produced the French-Spanish feature film 7 Days in Havana, which premiered the following year in the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival. With his debut film En la caliente: cuentos de un guerrero del reguetón (2024), he won several international awards: Gabo Award for journalistic excellence, Sea Wolf Award for Best Documentary at the Punta del Este International Film Festival (Uruguay), Best Documentary at the Nvision Latino Film & Music Festival (Palm Springs, USA), and Best Direction and Sound at the Ceará International Film Festival (Brazil). In 2025, he will premiere PARA VIVIR. The Unrelenting Time of Pablo Milanés at Sheffield DocFest (United Kingdom).