Epicentro

Program:

This is a real life. Docudays UA at Molodist

Year:

2020

Country:

Austria, France, USA

Genre:

Documentary

Duration:

108'

An immersive and metaphorical portrait of post-colonial, ‘utopian’ Cuba, where the 1898 explosion of the USS Maine still resonates. This Big Bang ended Spanish colonial dominance in the Americas and ushered in the era of the American Empire.

Schedule

Hubert Sauper

Hubert Sauper was born in Kitzbühel, Austria. He then lived in Great Britain, Italy, the USA, Tanzania, Congo and South Sudan. His ‘homebase’ has been France since the mid-90s. He studied film directing in Vienna and Paris. Sauper’s socio-political and poetic films have won over 50 major international prizes, among them awards at the Venice Film Festival, the Berlinale, Sundance, the French (César), Austrian and European Academy Awards.

Filmography: We Come As Friends (2014), Darwin's Nightmare (2004), Alone With Our Stories (2000), Kisangani Diary (1998)

Creative team

Director

Hubert Sauper

Screenplay

Hubert Sauper

Camera

Hubert Sauper

Producer

Martin Marquet, Daniel Marquet, Gabriele Kranzelbinder, Paolo Calamita

Production

KGP Filmproduktion GmbH, Little Magnet Films, Groupe Deux