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En la otra isla

Sara Gómez
1982 Cuba 75 minutes Spanish

This film is part of a trilogy devoted to the Pine Trees Island now called Youth island. It features various marginal characters -an actor exposed to racial discrimination, a former seminarist and young girls discussing sexual intercourse.

Sara Gómez

Sara Gomez: Born  in 1943 in Havana, Sara Gomez studied literature, the piano and Afro-Cuban ethnography before turning to cinema. She went on to become Cuba’s first woman director. In 1961, she enrolled in the ICAIC (Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry) and worked notably as assistant director alongside Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Jorge Fraga and Agnès Varda. 

Production :
I.C.A.I.C. Instituto Cubano de Arte e Industria Cinematográficos
Distribution :
I.C.A.I.C. Instituto Cubano de Arte e Industria Cinematográficos
Editing :
aita Villalón
Sound :
Germinal Hernández
Photography :
Luis Garcia

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