“Fidel and Socialist Cuba: Burning the Skies”, documentary produced by Brazil in fact in collaboration with the MST Brigade, will have its debut this Thursday (27), in Havana. The film will be shown at the Fidel Castro Ruz Center, with the presence of people interviewed during its production.
Released in the centenary year of Fidel Castro’s birth, the documentary draws on his thoughts and work to reflect on the challenges currently faced by Cuba regarding popular sovereignty, national self-determination and the struggle for socialism.
Through testimonies from people from different generations, with different professional experiences and militant trajectories, the film addresses the place that the revolutionary leader’s ideas occupy today in a society marked by the economic war in the United States and popular resistance.
Paying homage to Fidel, a figure who, against all odds, transformed the history of Cuba, Our America and the world, the documentary also seeks to understand how his legacy remains present in Cuban society.
“The Cuban people believe that their ideas continue to contribute to finding ways to overcome and resist difficulties, the blockade and to face this moment of war”, he says to Brazil in fact Nívia Regina, coordinator of the MST Brigade in Cuba.
Making the documentary, Nívia points out, is also a way of celebrating Fidel’s legacy and expressing the affection, respect and admiration that the Cuban people have for him.
The film brings together dozens of interviews carried out after the United States government imposed a policy of energy suffocation on the island. Through their testimonies, different voices reconstruct memories, experiences and reflections on Fidel.
The premiere will take place at the Fidel Castro Ruz Center, a sociocultural institution dedicated to preserving, studying and disseminating the thought, life and legacy of the leader of the Cuban Revolution.
Rodrigo Chagas, one of the documentary’s directors, explains that one of the film’s objectives was to express the “shine in the eyes” of the Cuban people that “emerges and strengthens when talking about Fidel”.
The documentary seeks to understand how, despite the difficult material living conditions and the impacts of the resurgence of the United States blockade, talking about Fidel continues to be, according to Chagas, a source of inspiration and hope for those who dream and fight for a better world.
“It is a great joy to know that the documentary will be shown in Cuba and that many of the Cuban men and women we interviewed will be able to see each other. I hope that, just as it was a renewal of the revolutionary spirit for us to observe the affection and care with which Cubans speak about Fidel, we can also transmit some of that emotion that we felt when making this documentary”, he states.
Source: www.brasildefato.com.br
