Social Justice Film Night
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- Published on Thursday, 10 December 2015 20:30
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SCENT OF AN OAK(Roble De Olor)
By Cuban film director RIGOBERTO LOPEZ
7pm Thursday December 172994 Douglas (BCGEU Hall) Victoria
Admission by Donation
In the early nineteenth century, Cuba is a Spanish colony and a slave society in which labour has been kidnapped in African lands and sold like cattle to the Spanish and Creole landowners. The ideals of emancipation, enlightenment and the French and American revolutions have also reached the Caribbean. In the midst of this environment of inconsistencies, enigmas, dreams and endless tragedies, Ursula, a freed slave woman from Haiti, and Cornelio, a German merchant, star in a love story that created the hope of living in a better... world bravely brought to fruition in the richest coffee plantation in Cuba: Angerona.
Director: Rigoberto López PegoExecutive Producer: Humberto HernándezCast: Lia Chapman, Jorge Perugorría, Rubén Breñas
Awards: "Vigía Award" and "Educational Cinematography Award" - Havana Film Festival, 2003. "Best Film - Latin Film Competition" - Gramado Film Festival, 2005."DIKALO Award: Best Fiction Film" - Cannes Pan-African Festival, 2006.
"Special Jury Prize" - Festival Internacional Mirroirs et Cinema Des Afriques. Marseilles, France.