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IDFA 2019

In a Whisper

A media voz
Heidi Hassan, Patricia Pérez Fernández
Spain, France, Switzerland, Cuba
2019
80 min
World Premiere
Festival history
IDFA Award for Best Feature-Length Documentary

Childhood friends Patricia and Heidi grew up in Cuba, where they both went to the film academy. As children of the 1970s, they were brought up with the communist ideals of Che Guevara, but the promised bright future failed to materialize. Independently of each other, they fled the malaise and censorship of their homeland. Heidi ended up in Switzerland, Patricia in Spain. They had no contact for years.

Now both 40, they seek a way to approach each other again, choosing the medium that suits them best: video letters. Both have continued to film their lives, even though it seemed unlikely that they would ever work in film again. In their frank audiovisual communication, the two migrants recount all the roundabout routes they have taken in their lives: Patricia’s years selling mojitos, Heidi’s search for work and connection with society in Geneva, and the struggle with alienation and nostalgia for a country that no longer exists.

The result of the letters, ingeniously edited into a chronological yet freewheeling whole, is a sensitive, two-sided account of uprootedness, motherhood, love of film, friendship and freedom.

Credits
Director
Production
    Daniel Froiz for Matriuska Producciones,
    Delphine Schmit for Perspective Films
    Daniel Froiz for Matriuska Producciones,
    Delphine Schmit for Perspective Films
Co-production
    PCT Cinema-Television SA,
    Producciones de la 5ta Avenida
    PCT Cinema-Television SA,
    Producciones de la 5ta Avenida
Sound Design
Music
    Olivier Militon,
    Patricia Cadaveira
    Olivier Militon,
    Patricia Cadaveira
World Sales
    Habanero Film Sales
    Habanero Film Sales
Screening copy
    Matriuska Producciones
    Matriuska Producciones

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