Archive 2009
50 Jahre Icaic - Programme
Curated by: Claudia von Alemann
Claudia von Alemann studied art history and sociology at the Freie Universität/Berlin. Later she studied film at the Hochschule für Gestaltung/Ulm. Between 1968 and 1969 as well as between 1974 and 1980 she lived in Paris, where she was part of film-collectives. From 1982 to 2006 Alemann worked as professor for film at the university of applied sciences in Dortmund, department design. Since 1994 she is visiting professor at the Escuela Internacional de Cine y TV, San Antonio de los Banos/Cuba.
Von Alemann shoots documentaries as well as feature films for television and cinema. These films were presented and decorated with awards at international festivals. She lives together with her husband, the Cuban director Fernando Pérez in Havanna/Cuba and in Cologne/Germany.
Films (Excerpt)
| 1980 | DIE REISE NACH LYON | |
| 1981 | DAS FRAUENZIMMER (TV) | |
| 1982 | NEBELLAND (TV) | |
| 2001 | WAR EINST EIN WILDER WASSERMANN |
Ciudad en Rojo (City in Red)
Director: Rebeca Chávez, C 2008, 90 min, DVCam, colour, ES
Actors: Yori Gómez, Rafael Ernesto Hernández, Eman-xor Oña
CIUDAD EN ROJO is an homage to the novel „Bertillón 166“, by Jose Soler Puig, which deals with revolutionary activities in the city of Santiago de Cuba in the middle of the Batista dictatorship.
El Cuerno de la Abundancia (Horn of Plenty)
Director: Juan Carlos Tabío, C/E 2008, 107 min, 35 mm, colour, GS
Actors: Paula Ali, Laura de la Uz, Jorge Perugorría
In 18th century a group of Castiñeiras nuns deposited treasure in a British bank. Buoyed by the promise of wealth, Castiñeiras descendants throughout Cuba band together to try to prove their eligibility as legitimate heirs. A wonderfully crafted comedy that reflects on the socio-economic difficulties of contemporary Cuba with corrosive wit.
La Anunciación (The Annunciation)
Director: Enrique Pineda Barnet, C 2008, 93 min, DVcam, colour, ES
Actors: Broselianda Hernández, Verónica Lynn, Héctor Noas
Amalia is left a widow. Her grandson and her son Mayito should accompany her to the opening of will. As she fears to die soon, she wants to solve all the problems before. She tampers the last will not guessing about the consequences. Old conflicts occure again, only the truth can reunite them.
La edad de la Peseta (The silly age)
Director: Pavel Giroud, C/YV/E 2006, 90 min, DVcam, colour, ES
Actors: Ivàn Carreira, Susana Tejera, Mercedes Sampietro
Alicia returns to her mother with her son Samuel. In these days the cuban society is in a state of flux, the revolution wins supporters, the Batista-regime loses his power. Samuel diverges more an more from his mother and develops a strong connection to his grandma who works as a photographer.
Personal Belongings
Director: Alejandro Burguès, C/BOL 2007, 92 min, DigiBeta, colour, ES
Actors: Heidi García, Caleb Casas, Osvaldo Doimeadiós
Ernesto absolutely wants to leave Cuba and so he is ambling from embassy to embassy to have heartbreaking interviews for his emigration. Ana’s family has fled, she decided to stay.When they one day fall hopelessly in love, they have to rethink the outlines of their lives.
Alicia Bustamante - Ein Film von Hanna Schygulla
Director: Hanna Schygulla, C/Paris 2009, 105 min, DVcam, colour, GS
Actors: Alicia Bustamante
'In Cuba Alicia Bustamante is a legendary figur of the film and theatre scene. I got to know her in 1991 when shooting for TV on Cuba, after a script of Gabriel Garcia Marques. Since this time we stayed in contact. It was her who brought me to singing and staged my programmes from Paris. In my portrait of this versatile woman Frau (shot in Paris and Havanna) you will also see a few examples of those moments, where – with her sence for the absurd – she turns everyday life into comedy. Of course I could not call a camera man every time. Therefore I took the camera myself. The result might convey to you the magic I feel, when this woman despite all the wisdom of her years revives the genius of childhood: a lesson of youth for the old age. „Cinema d’auteur“, homemade with plenty of cuban aroma, a breeze of Paris and heated with the flame of enthousiasm without awe of daring something new.' (Schygulla)
Cuba en cortos - Short Films from Cuba
1. Ciudad del Futuro (City of the Future)
Director: Damián Bandín Carnero/Karin Losert, C 2008, 20 min, MiniDV, colour, ES
Actors: Einwohner von Alamar, Havannas
A settlement near Havanna, project of the cuban revolution. Selected by ideological criterias, the “hombre nuevo” should find a new home there. A succes?
2. Destino M6 (Destination M6)
Director: Gretel Medina/Raymel Gasamayor, C 2007, 9 min, DVcam, colour, without dialogue
Actors: Samuel Fernández
Havanna’s notorious Camelio-bus destination M6. The agonizing narrowness, the physical feeling of oppression, but Samuel is dreaming of his music.
3. El Futuro es hoy (The Future is now)
Director: Sandra Gómez, C 2008, 35 min, DigiBeta, colour, ES
Actors: Einwohner von Havanna
This documentary was created from the years 2006 to 2009. The topic: Life in Havana, a vague waiting. Seven people talk about themselves, complement and contradict one another. Some would like everything to stay as it is, some hope for change. Everybody is connected to the Malecón, the wall at the coast, where the town opens itself to the horizon.
4. El Patio de mi casa (The Patio of my House)
Director: Patricia Ramos, C 2007, 13 min, DVcam, colour, ES
Actors: Beatriz Viñas, Martha del Rio, Norberto Blanco
While doing laundry 2 women are dreaming of a red diwan, sensuality and a better life... But what a contradiction to everyday life problems...
5. El Propietario (The Owner)
Director: Ernesto Piña, Wilber Noguel, C 2007, 7 min, DVcam, colour, ES
Animated film about the desperate fight for an abandoned strecht of land. The story of an everlasting fight of the rich and the poor, owners and servants...
6. Patria
Director: Susana Barriga Rodríguez, C 2008, 14 min, DVcam, bw, ES
A cuban forest, in any wind and weather men are bowling stones, their skin is sweatful. A portrait of Yubisnel, a country, the heat and the silence.