Title: The Man of Two Havanas
Location: Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
Description: dir. Vivien Lesnik Weisman, 2007, Cuba / USA, 96 min.

Start Time: 20:15
Date: 2008-11-15
End Time: 23:15

This award winning documentary recalls the Cuban Revolution through the voice of the daugher of journalist Max Lesnik, once a friend of Fidel Castro who fled to Miami. The father-daughter relationship evolves as Vivien considers her father’s opposition to the U.S. blockade, his reconciliation with Castro and the violent reacion of Miami’s Cuban-American Community. She struggles to understand the all-consuming and often life-threatening political commitment of her father she also explores the emotionally charged conflicts that have divided the “two Havanas.” While examining the ways in which the US embargo and travel ban and the terrorist acts of Cubans on the extreme right have torn families apart and widened the breach between Cubans on the island and those in exile, she searches for the means of both political and familial reconciliation.  

The film received the IFPAward , the First Coral Prize at Havana’s Film Festival and was at the Official Selection at Tribeca Film Festival.

Ganador de premios internacionales, este documental entrelaza la historia de la Revolucion Cubana a traves de la narrativa de la hija de Max Lesnik, un periodista y amigo de Fidel Castro residente en Miami. La relacion padre-hija evoluciona impactada por la oposicion del padre hacia el bloqueo, su reconciliacion con Castro y la violenta reaccion de los cubanos de Miami. Mientras se debate consigo misma por comprender la acuciante y a veces peligrosa postura de su padre, explora los profundos conflictos emocionales que han dividido a las ‘dos Habanas’. Examina detenidamente la manera en que el embargo estadounidense, las prohibiciones de viaje y los actos terroristas de cubanos de extrema derecha han dividido familias y extendido la brecha entre los exilados y los cubanos en la isla. Lesnick busca de alguna manera reconciliar la politica y su familia en este film premiado en IFP y el Festival de Habana. Seleccion oficial en Tribeca. 

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