FRIDAY | 8:55pm
Arturo Dueñas Herrero
1h14m | 2022 | Spain | US Theatrical Premiere
Cuba, a few months after the death of Fidel Castro, provides the backdrop for PESSOAS, an ethereal road movie which examines issues of privacy and image rights while chronicling the repair of a father-daughter relationship. Arturo Dueñas (director plays himself) and Greta Fernández (plays his estranged daughter) travel to the Caribbean Island looking for an unknown woman whose portrait hangs in Dueñas’ living room. Together they tour the island in search of the photographed woman while seeking to mend their fractured connection. Shot without written dialogues, fiction melds sharply with reality in the poignant resolution of scenes that relies on the skillful improvisation of the actors.
Awards: Best Feature Film at Ukrainian Dream Film Festival; Best Feature Film at Festival de Cine de Madrid, Spain.