VLAFF

AKIN´S DESERT
2025-09-08 14:00 - 15:30 (America/Vancouver) | Cineworks
Dir. Bernard Lessa | Brazil, 2024
Portuguese & Spanish with English subtitles | 78 min | Narrative
Akin is one of the Cuban doctors working in Brazil in 2018. With the election, the cooperation between Brazil and Cuba ends. Doctors are asked to return to their country of origin. Akin is at a crossroads. Return to Cuba or settle in Brazil?
Akin’s Desert tells the story of Akin, one of the many Cuban doctors in the Mais Médicos Program, which was in effect in Brazil until mid-2018. The film begins a few months before the election.
