CASA BLANCA
Casa Blanca is a small fishing village on the Gulf of Havana. Nelsa (76) and her son Vladimir (37), who has Down syndrome, share a tiny room in an overcrowded multi-family building. Vladimir is the only caretaker for ailing Nelsa, and Nelsa is the only person to watch over Vladimir, who easily gets into trouble. Their relationship is filled with conflicts: she is trying to control her son, while he prefers to help fishermen at work, have fun and drink rum with them, rather than spend time with his mother.
Every day Nelsa wanders the streets of Casa Blanca in search of her only child not returning home early.
One day, she falls ill.
- GENRE:
- documentary
- COUNTRYI:
- Poland
- RUNNING TIME:
- 60'
- YEAR:
- 2015
- DIRECTING:
- Aleksandra Maciuszek
- SCRIPT:
- Aleksandra Maciuszek
- DOP:
- Javier Labrador Deulofeu
- EDITOR:
- Lorenzo Mora Salazar
- PRODUCER:
- KIJORA / Anna Gawlita
Aleksandra Maciuszek »
Born in Krakow, graduate of Cultural Studies at the Jagiellonian University and documentary film directing in the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión de San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. Before her studies she worked in NGOs and cultural institutions in Poland, Spain and Mexico. Her thesis film "Escenas Previas" / "Previous Scenes" (2012) won multiple awards at international film festivals. "Casa Blanca" is her debut feature documentary.
AT FESTIVALS:
- Tripoli DocuDays, Leabanon, 2017 (screening)
- Festival Ojoloco, France, 2017 (screening)
- FrontDoc, Italy, 2016 (Young Jury Price)
- CinéDOC-Tbilisi, Georgia, 2016 (competition)
- Szczecin European Film Award, Poland, 2016 (Award for the best film in European Competition)
- DocsMX, Mexico, 2016 (competition)
- Women Make Waves Film Festival, Taiwan, 2016 (competition)
- Margaret Mead Film Festival, USA, 2016 (Margaret Mead Filmmaker Award)
- Inconvenient Film Festival 2016, Lithuania, 2016 (screening)
- Human Rights FF: Inconvenient Films, Lithuania, 2016 (screening)
- Documentarist, Turkey, 2016 (competition)
- EDOC, Ecuador, 2016 (competition)
- TRT Documentary Days 2016,Turkey, 2016 (Best Documentary Award)
- 13th Docudays UA, Ukraine, 2016 (competition)
- International Women’s Films Festival Creteil, Frace, 2016 (competition)
- Festival Ojoloco sur le Cinéma Ibérique et Latino-Américain de Grenoble, France, 2016 (competition)
- ‘Punto de Vista’ International Documentary FF, Spain, 2016 (Premio de la Juventud a la Mejor Película)
- "Cinema Verite" Iran International Documentary FF, Iran, 2015 (competition)
- 37th International Festival of New Latin American Cinema, Cuba, 2015 (Premio Coral)
- Gold Panda Awards, China, 2015 (competition)
- Minsk IFF "Listapad", Belarus, 2015 (Special Mention)
- 10th DocsDF, Mexico, 2015 (competition)
- 25th Message to Man International FF, Russia, 2015 (screening)
- Balinale - IFF, Indonesia, 2015 (competition)
- IDFF "Flahertiana", Russia, 2015 (screening)
- Trinidad+Tobago FF, 2015 (Best Documentary Feature)
- Ceau, Cinema! Film Festival, Romania, 2015 (competition)
- 55th Krakow Film Festival, Poland, 2015 (Golden Hobby-Horse)
- Visions du Réel International Film Festival 2015, Switzerland, 2015 (competition)