
Lessons for Luca
Salvador Gieling
87´ and 59´'
2021, Dutch
Belga and Salvador, a Cuban mother and a Dutch father and filmmaker, undertake the impossible by trying to explain their 2-year-old son Luca the absurd story of his uncle Ezequiel in Cuba, who has been sentenced by the revolutionary court to six years in jail for selling his own cow. Their journey leads them to the remote village of Sibanicú in the heart of the island Cuba. There we see how Ezequiel's criminal case and the intimate story of Belga and her family turn out to be a result of the...