EN FIN, EL MAR [FINALLY, THE SEA]

TUESDAY 28 OCTOBER AT 5:10PM UGC SHAFTESBURY AVE SCREEN 1

Country Argentina/Cuba Running Time 105 mins Format HD/35mm Dir/Prod Jorge Dyszel S'play Audry Guti»rrez Alea, Jorge Dyszel DoP Marcelo Iaccarino Cast Joel Nunez, Audry Gutierez Alea, Enrique Pinti, Vladimir Cruz Print Source Jorge Dyszel E jedyszel@yahoo.com

This a story about two very different people connected by the sea. Tony is a Cuban-American Wall Street metal trader. While on vacation in sunny Key West, Florida, he swims to intercept a wreck of a makeshift raft floating close to the beach. Two names are carved into the wood of the raft - Pablo and Mariana - are these the names of the two rafters who lost their lives in the wreck?

Moved by this unexpected encounter of a suspected tragedy in two unknown Cubans' lives, Tony's life and his priorities instantly change. He decides to travel back to Cuba to find the family of the rafters to tell them what he has found. This journey also becomes a discovery of his own Cuban roots. After a short search he meets and finds the family. Soon, shocked and surprised he finds the beautiful Mariana whom he presumed had died at sea. She awakens in him his true destiny, which is touchingly described in the epilogue of the movie through an exchange of letters between the pair. It's a slow burning movie, which chronicles the meeting of two distant souls, connected, but ultimately drawn apart again by the sea. AK

In 1989 Jorge Dyszel started his career as a theatre producer, and while he established his name in that he field, he also started producing short films. By 1999 he had produced two feature films numerous plays, had won awards for his TV work, and started production on this, his first film as director, which, after lengthy struggles with the Cuban authorities, was completed earlier this year.