the trailer of the padilla casethe most recent feature film of the Cuban filmmaker pavel giroudwhich addresses one of the best-known episodes of censorship against artists on the island and the suppression of freedom of expression at the hands of Fidel Castro, just saw the light.
On Wednesday the prestigious publication of the entertainment world Variety He exclusively published the audiovisual, which was shared by Giroud on his social networks on Thursday.
The promotional piece advances part of the testimonies of the documentary, including some of the moments of the sadly famous self-incrimination of the poet Hebert Padillaafter being detained and subjected to torture by the political police after openly expressing his criticism of the island’s regime.
Those images, of which only fragments had been seen until today, were filmed by a team from the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry (ICAIC) led by documentary filmmaker Santiago Álvarez and kept hidden by the Cuban regime.
Giroud recovered the filmed material, buried in an official archive for more than 50 years, of the public “retraction” of the poetand took care that “the material, full of subtleties and revelations hidden in an excessive outpouring of perfectly strung words, was readable for audiences who do not have a direct reference to the event”, says Variety.
“The self-criticism was so disproportionate that it seemed to be obtained by ignominious methods. I don’t know if Padilla was harming the revolution, but his self-criticism did,” Nobel Prize for Literature winner Gabriel García Márquez, a close friend of Fidel Castro, wrote about what happened.
According to Variety, international sales rights the padilla case were acquired by the firm FiGa Films, based in Miami and Sao Paulofounded in 2006 by Brazilian Sandro Fiorin and Cuban-American Alex García.
The purpose of the company is the promotion and distribution of contemporary Latin American cinema.
the padilla case thus achieves international distribution just days after participate in the Horizontes Latinos section of the San Sebastián Film Festival, in Spain, and at the Telluride Film Festivalfrom Colorado, United States, both during September.
“We were impressed by how contemporary the theme of the film is. Freedom of expression has never been more important than today. Pavel is a talented director and his producer is not afraid. We are very proud of them,” said Fiorin after announcing the acquisition of the rights.
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Revealed the trailer for the film ‘The Padilla Case’, by Pavel Giroud