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The internet in Cuba is very slow. Movies, television, and information are exchanged through a black market system of media distribution via external hard drives known as el paquete semanal.
An adolescent on a remote place narrates his story marked by a past in the Sahara being a camel, Pringles fries, the desire for fat women’s bodies, strange drawings, colonizers and reggaeton.
The Colonist (9:36) This is a short film from 2022 made by Welsh filmmaker Robert A Smith under the mentorship of Werner Herzog, as part of the Werner Herzog Film Accelerator programme. It is a drama short in which an isolated man on another world leaves a colony on the verge of collapse to wander a rocky wilderness in search of meaning.
In their small village in the Cuban countryside, Leonel (9) and Antuán (13) have been friends for their entire lives. But Antuán will move to Habana at the end of the summer and these holidays might be the last they ever spend together.
A 9-minute short directed by Abbas Kiarostami, produced as part of a workshop in Cuba.