POST Arnhem
Screening: Sin La Habana
POST Arnhem, Driekoningenstraat 16
Language: Engels
Admission: €5.– excluding service fee, including one free drink
Students ArtEZ and Radboud University: €2,50 – excluding service fee, including one free drink
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On Thursday, June 27, we will show the film Sin La Habana by director Kaveh Nabatian amidst the works of Mario Sergio Alvarez in the exhibition Cabinets of Presence.
Sin La Habana (2020) is the first feature film by director Kaveh Nabatian and tells the story of the Cuban couple Leonardo, a ballet dancer, and Sara, a lawyer. They have big dreams, but these are thwarted by the closed borders of Cuba. Their ticket to a better future lies with Nasim, a tourist with a love for the exotic. The couple hatches a plan for Leonardo to seduce Nasim, a Canadian born in Iran, to escape from Cuba.
Stories of identity, belonging, and the dream of freedom unfold somewhere between the cold winter in Quebec and the sultry Malecón in Cuba, where cultures clash and adaptation proves difficult.
Kaveh Nabatian is an Iranian-Canadian director and musician whose films bring untold stories from the lesser-known corners of society to life. His oeuvre includes A Crack in Everything, a feature-length documentary about Leonard Cohen, The Seven Last Words, an experimental anthology directed by seven people inspired by the music piece The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross by Joseph Haydn, and the narrative feature film *Sin La Habana*, which was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award and won multiple prizes at international film festivals. His most recent film, the award-winning Kite Zo A: Leave the Bones, is a sensory documentary filmed in Haiti, made in collaboration with Haitian musicians, poets, Vodou priests, fishermen, and skaters.