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The night finds Orestes in a thick tropical forest holding a machete and looking furiously for Damián, his younger brother. Orestes discovers his brother having sex with another man. What happens next will change the brothers’ lives forever.
LOS CIMARRONES, will screen as part of the queer ones program.
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**The film will also be available for viewing online from Oct 30 to Nov 3. Check our “How to Watch” page for step by step instructions.**
Cuban filmmaker who has directed around ten short films, selected and awarded at international film
festivals like Havana, Fribourg, Ficunam, Documenta Madrid, and Xposed. Their films tackle the
Afrocuban and LGBTQ culture. Since 2018 they organize and curate Cineclub CUIR, an independent
project of film exhibition in Cuba with a clear queer, feminist and antiracist vision.
Dami Sainz, graduated from the University of Arts, Havana, Cuba, and from the EICTV with a degree in
documentary direction. Sainz also studied at the Mel Hoppenheim Film School in Montreal, and at the
Cinema du Réel Department at HEAD Genève. Dami has worked as a director, editor, and producer on
documentary films in Cuba, Canada, Switzerland, and Spain and has collaborated with visual arts
projects like Galleria Continua, Ludwig Foundation, and Citta de L’Arte.
Sainz is a professor and advisor of documentary film at the EICTV since 2016 and was also an invited
professor at the Ludwig Foundation in Cuba and Altos de Chavón in the Dominican Republic.
Cuban filmmaker who has directed around ten short films, selected and awarded at international film
festivals like Havana, Fribourg, Ficunam, Documenta Madrid, and Xposed. Their films tackle the
Afrocuban and LGBTQ culture. Since 2018 they organize and curate Cineclub CUIR, an independent
project of film exhibition in Cuba with a clear queer, feminist and antiracist vision.
Dami Sainz, graduated from the University of Arts, Havana, Cuba, and from the EICTV with a degree in
documentary direction. Sainz also studied at the Mel Hoppenheim Film School in Montreal, and at the
Cinema du Réel Department at HEAD Genève. Dami has worked as a director, editor, and producer on
documentary films in Cuba, Canada, Switzerland, and Spain and has collaborated with visual arts
projects like Galleria Continua, Ludwig Foundation, and Citta de L’Arte.
Sainz is a professor and advisor of documentary film at the EICTV since 2016 and was also an invited
professor at the Ludwig Foundation in Cuba and Altos de Chavón in the Dominican Republic.