Main Programme  

Childhood friends Patricia and Heidi grew up in Cuba, where they both went to the film academy. Independently of each other, they fled the malaise and censorship of their homeland. Now both 40, they seek a way to approach each other again, choosing the medium that suits them best: video letters. 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.

Awards

Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival (IDFA) – Best Feature Length Documentary, 2019
Havana Film Festival – Best Feature Length Documentary, 2019

Heidi Hassan

After getting a degree in Cinematography from the International Film School of San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba in 2002, Heidi Hassan emigrated to Switzerland where she continued her professional training at the Haute Ecole d’Art et Design in Geneva where she got her diploma in Film Directing in 2008. Nowadays she reconciles her personal work as a filmmaker and visual artist with numerous collaborations as a director of photography. Her work has been presented in prestigious international film festivals where they received several awards and critical acclaim.

Filmography

Tourists / Les touristes, 2015
Island Oyster / Ostra Isla, 2014
Summer Oranges / Oranges d’été, 2008
Red Land / Tierra roja, 2008
Miserere, 2006

Patricia Pérez Fernández

After getting a degree in Drama from Havana’s Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA), she continued her training at the International Film School of San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba, where she got her diploma in Film Directing in 2002. In 2003 she got a scholarship to pursue postgraduate studies at the Film and Audiovisual School of Catalonia (ESCAC) and migrated to Spain. Since then, she has made several fiction short films and documentaries. Currently, she is a staff member of DOCMA (Spain’s Documentary Producers Association). “In a whisper” is her debut as a full-length documentary director.

Filmography

Local pool / Piscina Municipal, 2013
The Third in the Series / El tercero de la serie, 2007
You Have to Jump out of Bed with the Firm Conviction that Your Teeth Have Grown / Hay que saltar del lecho con la firme convicción de que tus dientes han crecido, 2002
Smoke / Humo, 2002
Fall / Otoño, 2001