Oceans Are the Real Continents (2025)
Director: Tommaso Santambrogio Run Time: 120 min. Release Year: 2023 Language: Spanish
Starring: Alain Alain Alfonso González, Alexander Diego, Edith Ybarra Clara, Frank Ernesto Lam, Milagros Llanes Martínez
Country: Italy, Cuba
Language: Spanish
About the film
Alex and Edith, a young couple in their 30s, live their relationship made up of small gestures and everyday life among the ruins of Cuban buildings. Milagros, an elderly woman now retired, tries to survive by selling peanuts and spends her days listening to the radio and reading old letters. Frank and Alain, two nine-year-old friends, go to school and dream of emigrating together to the United States to become Major League Baseball players. Against the backdrop of San Antonio De Los Baños, a town in inland Cuba where time seems to stand still, these three narratives and their respective worlds unfold. Over this mosaic of contemporaneity, however, brought to life through the characters’ memories, hovers the specter of separation, the true great scourge of Cuban society.
About the filmmaker:
Tommaso Santambrogio is a director, writer, photographer, and video artist. He was born in Milan in 1992 and studied between Milan, London, Paris, Rome, and Havana.
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