NADA+

Cuba, 2001,
Spanish with English subtitles | 90′

Director: Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti

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Tuesday, January 31, 8:30 PM

The Cinematheque
1131 Howe Street (btw Helmcken and Davie)

Carla, a young postal worker in Havana, spends her days postmarking thousands of letters and dreaming of the day when she can be reunited with her parents, who moved to Miami when she was fifteen. To fulfill her longing for intimacy, she opens random letters and rewrites them into lyrical prose, believing she is helping her fellow Cubans understand one another better. Beautifully filmed in black and white accented by brilliant colours, Nada+ has a stunning visual composition. With its delightful mix of visual humour, theatrical characters, bureaucratic satire and a lighthearted love story, it has a distinctly Cuban flair.

Thoughtful, cheerful and clever, Nada+ signals the arrival of an important new Cuban filmmaker. Diana Sanchez, Toronto International Film Festival, 2002

Nada+ premiered at the Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes in 2002. It received a nomination for the Goya Award for Best Spanish Language Foreign Film, and won Best First Film at the Festival of New Latin American Cinema in Havana and the Grand Jury Prize for Best Iberoamerican Feature at Miami. It was chosen as Cuba’s entry for the 2002 Academy Awards.

Nada+ es una opera prima notable. Filmada en blanco y negro con bellos destellos de colores casi fantasiosos, la película cuenta la historia de Carla, una joven que trabaja para el servicio de correos quien sueña con unirse a sus padres quienes están en Miami. Para darle sabor a su vida, Carla abre las cartas que llegan a la oficina de correos y las re-escribe cubriendo de alegría las vidas de las personas que reciben las cartas. Nada+ contiene actuaciones dignas de una obra teatral, que refleja la capacidad de dramaturgia de Cremata, quien es uno de los directores de teatro más reconocidos en la Cuba actual.

Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti (Havana, Cuba, 1961) has directed 50+ television episodes, two short films, one documentary, The Epoch, the Enchantment and the End of the Century (1999), and five feature-length narrative films: Nada+ (2001), Viva Cuba (2005), El premio flaco (2009), Chamaco (2011), and Contigo pan y cebolla (2014). For his work, he has won over 54 international prizes.

ADDITIONAL CREDITS

Producers: Thierry Forte, Sarah Halioua, Antonio P. Pérez, Camilo Vives
Writers: Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti, Manuel Rodríguez
Cinematographer: Raúl Rodríguez Cabrera
Editors: Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti, Antonio P. Reina
Music: Edesio Alejandro
Art Direction: Guillermo Ramírez Malberti
Cast: Thais Valdés, Nacho Lugo, Daisy Granados, Paula Alí, Verónica López