LENIN PARK

MEXICO - FRANCE - CUBA 75 MIN

RUSSIAN PREMIERE

ABOUT

The Kessel brothers share a common memory of their last moment together in the amusement park Parque Lenin. Elegy for the death of the mother, migration and the difficulties of growing up alone. 

DIRECTORS

ITZIAR LEEMANS

After studing History at Univerity of Toulouse le Mirail, France, she dos a post degree in Cinematography at the International School of Film an Televition, Cuba, she also gets an specialitation in Documental Photography at L ´atelier -nomand, France. She has been the cinematographer of many short films –documentary and fiction- as Valeria Arinez´ Awariy (2012), Official Selecction at Habana Film Fest and Havana Film Festival, New York.

CARLOS MIGNON

After studing Social Communication at Universidad Autónoma de México and Photography at Escuela Activa de Fotografía (EAF) , he makes a post degree in Direction at the International School of Film and Televition, Cuba. Director of the documentary film Los Intrusos (2011), Official Selection at Río de Janeiro Cinesul Festival, Brasil and Muestra Joven at Habana Film Fest. He is screenwriter of Cebú (2012), Official Selection of the Habana Film Fest. He also has worked as assistant director in La Yuma (2009) by Florence Jaugey, Best First Work at Guadalajara Film Festival and Special Jury Price at Málaga Film Festival.

OTHER FESTIVALS

• Festival International Visions Du Réel in Nyon, Switzerland 2015 
• Festival De Biarritz América Latina, France 2015 
• Festival International De Cine De Morelia, Mexico 2015

SECTION

Main Competition 2016