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Dreams adrift

2021 · 32 min

A quiet, reflective documentary portrait that lingers on a forgotten artist's life, carrying a gentle ache of exile and lost recognition.

Directed by
Fernando Fraguela, José Luis Aparicio
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Mike Porcel, Amaury Pérez, Pedro Luis Ferrer
Tagline
Portrait of a ghost
Overview
Mike Porcel is the lost member of the Cuban Nueva Trova musical movement. His lack of “revolutionary spirit” condemned him to the scorn of his peers and made him a pariah for a decade, until he managed to go into exile. Without resentment, but without forgetting, the film reconstructs his story and revives a forgotten brilliance.

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Directed by
Fernando Fraguela, José Luis Aparicio
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Mike Porcel, Amaury Pérez, Pedro Luis Ferrer
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    Themes
    • politics
    • art
    • music
    • isolation
    • memory
    Places
    None
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    • documentary
    • true story
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language mild
    • Violence none
    • Sex none
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    Action0
    Horror0
    Humour1
    Realism9
    Romance0
    Tension2
    Darkness4
    Complexity5
    Emotional weight6

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    Details

    Genres
    documentary
    Directed by
    Fernando Fraguela, José Luis Aparicio
    Written by
    José Luis Aparicio, Fernando Fraguela
    Starring
    Mike Porcel, Amaury Pérez, Pedro Luis Ferrer, José María Vitier, Frank Delgado, Frank Fernández, Daniel García Rangel
    Cinematography
    Ariel Navarro
    Runtime
    32 min
    Country
    Cuba, United States of America
    Languages
    Spanish

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