''Suite Habana'' is a 2003
Cuba
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n documentary directed by
Fernando Pérez.
The documentary was filmed with fictional cinema techniques depicting a day in a life of thirteen real people, from a ten-year-old child with
Down syndrome
Down syndrome or Down's syndrome, also known as trisomy 21, is a genetic disorder caused by the presence of all or part of a third copy of chromosome 21. It is usually associated with child development, physical growth delays, mild to moderate ...
to a 79-year-old lady who sells peanuts in the street.
The film has no dialogue, using sound and image to evoke emotional effect. Several stories are juxtaposed to convey the plot points, an unusual approach in
Cuban cinema, where spoken words are often used extensively.
Critical reception
After the film's premiere in Cuba, national critics ranked it as one of the best Cuban films in decades. The film gathered several awards at international film festivals. ''
Variety
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* ''Variety'' (1935 film), ...
'' called it "A lyrical, meticulously crafted and unexpectedly melancholy homage to the battered but resilient inhabitants of a battered but resilient city."
Awards
;HAVANA FILM FESTIVAL - 2003
*Best Director
*Best Music
*Best Sound
*Best Film Poster
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FIPRESCI prize
*Grand Coral - First Prize
;UPEC Cultural Circle Award
;Goya Awards (Spanish Academy Awards) - 2004
*Candidate to the Best Spanish Language Foreign Film (Mejor Película Extranjera de Habla Hispana)
;Gramado Film Festival - 2004
*Kikito Critics Prize
*Special Jury Award
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Donostia-San Sebastián International Film Festival - 2003
*SIGNIS Award
;Cuban Press Association Award
;El Mégano Award
*for its courageous vision of Havana's daily life and its artistic and powerful use of images and sounds
;Glauber Rocha Award
;Martin Luther King Memorial Center Award
See also
*
List of Cuban films
This is an incomplete list of films produced in Cuba in chronological order. For an A-Z list of films currently on Wikipedia see :Cuban films.
1890s
1900s
1910s
1920s
1930s
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000 ...
External links
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2003 films
2000s Spanish-language films
Cuban documentary films
2003 documentary films
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