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Wikipedia article
'Suite Habana' is a 2003 Cuban documentary directed by Fernando Prez.
The documentary was filmed with fictional cinema techniques depicting a day in a life of thirteen real people, from a ten-year-old child with Down syndrome to a 79-year-old lady who sells peanuts in the street.
The film has no dialogue, using sound and image to evoke emotional effect. Several stories are juxtaposed to convey the plot points, an unusual approach in Cuban cinema, where spoken words are often used extensively.
Critical reception
After the film's premiere in Cuba, national critics ranked it as one of the best Cuban films in decades. The film gathered several awards at international film festivals. 'Variety' called it "A lyrical, meticulously crafted and unexpectedly melancholy homage to the battered but resilient inhabitants of a battered but resilient city."
Awards
;HAVANA FILM FESTIVAL - 2003
*Best Director
*Best Music
*Best Sound
*Best Film Poster
*FIPRESCI prize
*Grand Coral - First Prize
;UPEC Cultural Circle Award
;Goya Awards (Spanish Academy Awards) - 2004
*Candidate to the Best Spanish Language Foreign Film (Mejor Pelcula Extranjera de Habla Hispana)
;Gramado Film Festival - 2004
*Kikito Critics Prize
*Special Jury Award
;Donostia-San Sebastin International Film Festival - 2003
*SIGNIS Award
;Cuban Press Association Award
;El Mgano Award
*for its courageous vision of Havana's daily life and its artistic and powerful use of images and sounds
;Glauber Rocha Award
;Martin Luther King Memorial Center Award
See also
* List of Cuban films
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