| 13/03/2021 – 7:03 am (GMT-4)
the movie Planted, By Cuban director Lilo Vilaplana, officially premiered this Friday in Havana and Miami as part of the activities of the Film Festival of this city in South Florida.
“Culture and the Fatherland are gaining ground,” said former Cuban political prisoner Angel Santiesteban, one of the feature film’s screenwriters, from the Cuban capital after a group of activists staged the premiere.
Santiesteban recalled that thanks to the permission of the producers, the audiovisual material can be disseminated throughout Cuba and thus “break censorship.”
“I think this film will help to open eyes, to raise awareness, to think. I think it’s a lesson for the minions themselves, those who have to be seen in this mirror and refuse to repress citizens who want the freedom for Cuba, “Santiesteban added.
For his part, the film’s director, Vilaplana, mentioned it on the channel Telemundo 51 that thanks to the support of Cuban opponents and activists in different parts of the national geography you could enjoy the material, which narrates the experiences of several political prisoners in Cuba who decided to “stand up” and deny the work regime forced to which they were subjected as part of a Reeducation Plan.
Some of the protagonists of those events, which inspired the film, were invited to the premiere in Miami and stressed the importance of such an audiovisual work.
“We have been waiting for this for a long time because of the sacrifice we made the political prisoners in Cuba and so that the whole world knows what we went through,” one guest at the premiere said.
For their part, some of the young actors who gave life to the characters of Plantats mentioned that this type of work can help tell a part of the story that is “misunderstood” on the island.
The Miami Film Festival has been taking place since March 5. contest where the audiovisual material was released, which will be screened in US cinemas from the next 26.
In statements a CiberCuba, The director Lilo Vilaplana He explained that this project is not current, but dates back to a quarter of a century ago with several ex-prisoners and the Cuban businessman Leopoldo Fernández Pujals, Nephew of José Pujals Mederos, who served 27 years in political prison.
“They made many attempts to explain in a film their experience as planted prisoners,” Vilaplana confessed. “The script could not be left in the anecdote, we had to update the conflict, so the story told by Plantats starts today, in Miami, a former political prisoner accidentally recognizes one of the officers who tortured them in prison , decides to follow him and begins at the bottom of a stormy debate between revenge and justice, while in retrospect we learn of the events that marked the political prison, focused on the history of those planted in the Cuban political prison. “
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