NOW! 20 July at CCA Glasgow
*This Q&A will have BSL interpretation. The films will be subtitled, but not captioned.
17:00 – 18:30 CCA Courtyard
In conversation: Cuba’s Rock Punk Satirist + Glasgow’s Tenementals proletarian Professor
Havana Glasgow Film Festival have been a fan of the work of Cuban filmmaker, writer and political satirist Eduardo Del Llano for the last decade and are delighted that he is able to join us in Glasgow for this event and to screen his films in the evening.
Humor and absurdity have always been Del Llano’s instruments of choice, cutting ever closer to the bone of reality to reflect on the issues of today’s Cuba. He possesses deep knowledge of the Cuban experience, but also has the capacity to move away and look at it from the inside and outside.
His self-deprecating humour and way of looking at things chimes with the Glasgow psyche, and so he will be joined in conversation in the CCA Courtyard by David Archibald, proletarian Professor at the University of Glasgow and member of The Tenementals, a band of academics and musicians who came together to delve into the history of Glasgow through the power of music.
19:15 – 21:30 CCA Cinema
Three films by Eduardo Del Llano + Q&A with the Director
Screenings of three short films by Cuban director Eduardo Del Llano. The films are:
Brainstorm I 26m I 2009
A world record, an accident, a heroic act, a fact of scientific interest. All this happens simultaneously. The board of directors of the newspaper ‘La Avanzada’ must decide what goes on the cover.
Domino I 22m I 2017
The 13th short film from Eduardo del Llano in the Nicanor series. Nicanor is worried because the rumor circulating in his neighborhood that the Cuban government is reaching an agreement with an Arab Sheikh to sell Cuba to him. While playing dominoes and drinking rum with some friends from a nearby apartment block, he finds out that they are offering 5 billion USD for the island.
Read the Havana Times review here
La Campaña | 30m I 2021
Felipe, a young brigadier, arrives at a hut lost among the hills somewhere in Cuba. It is 1961, in the middle of the Literacy Campaign. To their surprise, the peasant family turns out to be atypical in more ways than one.
After the films, audiences have the opportunity to ask Del Llano questions during an informative Q & A session.
21:00 – Midnight Music upstairs in the Third Eye Bar – free entry
Music by A Cut Above Glasgow and más allá, playing a selection of Cuban & Afro-Latin sounds and funky grooves.
A Cut Above have been producing Irregular nights in Glasgow since 2018.
más allá is a German-Colombian DJ based in Scotland, with an interest in poli-rythmic, experimental and alternative electronic music.