Section: Focus

Lorenza, la radio y tú

Lorenza, la radio y tú

Roya Eshraghi Safaifard
Cuba, 2015, 12 Min

Lorenza is an elderly inhabitant of the Sierra Maestra mountain range, where life is a daily struggle for survival. The most pressing issue she faces however is whether, and then when, she'll be able to listen to her favourite radio series. Her old transistor device confronts her with a very different reality however.

Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión (EICTV)

In the words of director Roya Eshraghi Safaifard “the elderly peasant woman, the antiquated radio and my camera formed a triangle, from which the film emerged”. The filmmaker left her native Iran, together with her parents, for Costa Rica, later enrolling at the International Film and Television School in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. Central character Lorenza lives in a “bohio”, a traditional wooden country home often found in the east of the country; her daily existence is captured with both a heightened sense of affection for the mundane, and remarkable attention to detail. In the process the viewer comes to an appreciation of the divergence between Lorenza's frugal yet sedate existence and the excited pronouncements of the radio. WMH

Filmformat
HDFile | Farbe / colour
Drehbuch
Roya Eshraghi Safaifard
Kamera
Roya Eshraghi Safaifard
Ton
Tomás Navas
Schnitt
Roya Eshraghi Safaifard
Darsteller
Lorenza Oliva Sánchez
Produzent
Tony Horta
Produktion
Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión (EICTV)
Kontakt
Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión (EICTV)
Tony Horta
Finca San Tranquilino
Km 4 1/2 Carretera a Vereda Nueva
San Antonio de los Baños
Cuba
Tel.: +53.47.38.31 52
promocioninternacionaleictv@gmail.com
www.eictv.org
Roya Eshraghi Safaifard

Roya Eshraghi Safaifard - born 1985 in Iran. In 2000, her family emigrated to Costa Rica and she later enrolled at the Escuela Internacional de Cine y TV (EICTV) in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. She is also the founder of Foadi Films and has been working as independent filmmaker.

Movies
DERAKHT (2015, short, doc)
NOTHING AND NO ONE (2015, short, doc)