Oceans Are the Real Continents (2023)
Alex and Edith, a young couple in their 30s, live their relationship made up of small gestures and everyday life among the ruins of Cuban buildings. Milagros, an elderly woman now retired, tries to survive by selling peanuts and spends her days listening to the radio and reading old letters. Frank and Alain, two nine-year-old friends, go to school and dream of emigrating together to the United States to become Major League Baseball players. Against the backdrop of San Antonio De Los Baños, a town in inland Cuba where time seems to stand still, these three narratives and their respective worlds unfold. Over this mosaic of contemporaneity, however, brought to life through the characters' memories, hovers the specter of separation, the true great scourge of Cuban society.
Director: Tommaso Santambrogio
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Alexander Diego as Alex |
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Edith Ybarra Clara as Edith |
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Frank Ernesto Lam as Frank |
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Alain Alain Alfonso González as Alain |
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Milagros Llanes Martínez as Milagros |
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Lola Amores as Yamilet |
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Jhon Steven Baldriche as Jhon |
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Joel Casanova as Ivan |
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Osvaldo Doimeadiós as Carlos |
| Editing | Matteo Faccenda | Editor |
| Sound | Tommaso Barbaro | Sound |
| Art | Alexis Álvarez Armas | Production Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Anisleidys Boza | Costume Design |
| Production | Marica Stocchi | Producer |
| Production | Gianluca Arcopinto | Producer |
| Production | Claudia Calviño | Co-Producer |
| Directing | Tommaso Santambrogio | Director |
| Writing | Tommaso Santambrogio | Writer |
| Camera | Lorenzo Casadio | Director of Photography |