Document Cantos

Cantos
Dir. Charles Petersman, Cuba/Switzerland 2013, 75m

It has been more than fifty years since the communist party took power in Cuba. Under the pressure of the economic blockade and questionable government policies, what started as an egalitarian dream has turned into a more sober reality.

Cantos follows the lives of four people who do not know each other but whose fates are united by difficult living conditions: a farmer who dreams of one day travelling; an activist who worries about the future for her daughter; a husband who is thinking about leaving the country; an old man who wants to help his sick friend. An intimate, poetic confession about finding your own path and the meaning of life in the rubble of a utopian paradise.

Viktor Award, Munich International Documentary Festival 2014 / Special Mention of the Cinéma Suisse Jury, Nyon Visions du Réel 2013. Document 12 International Jury Award: Nomination for Best Film.