FITO’S HAVANA
La Habana de Fito Páez
Monday, Sept 9 at 6:45 PM
The Cinematheque
Director: Juan Pin Villar
Cuba | 2023 | Spanish with English subtitles | 62 min | Documentary
Screens with the short film Starlit
Sliding Scale Tickets:
$13 / $15 / $18 / $21
Plus $3 VLAFF Membership required
In 1987, Argentine musician Fito Páez visited Cuba for the first time, invited by Pablo Milanés. His presence at a music festival shook the island, to which he’d return many times; he’d also drink from their tropical sounds. Sitting at the terrace of a traditional hotel in Havana, Fito sums up his story with Cuba, its musicians, its people and also its contradictions.
Fito Páez, alma del rock argentino y latinoamericano, se reencuentra una vez más con La Habana, ciudad del corazón y de muchos amigos. En una confesión de amor, el artista reflexiona sobre un país, su historia, su gente, sus músicos y sus contradicciones.
“La Habana de Fito fue censurada en los cines de su país y sometida a una reprimenda ideológica en la televisión estatal. Las intervenciones públicas de Páez cierran el arco narrativo abierto por el documental: un hombre convencido que trata infructuosamente de reconciliarse con la verdad.”
–Diego Maté, BAFICI
Official Selection & World Premiere, Festival de Cine La Habana NY, 2022
Official Selection, Cine con Cultura Latinx American FF, 2023
Official Selection & South American Premiere, BAFICI – Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema, 2024
Juan Francisco Vilar Hernández (Cuba 1963), known as Juan Pin, is a film director, writer and producer with a master degree in Art History by Havana University. For more than a decade, he directed Cuban TV shows also released in Mexico and the U.S. He produces and directs music shows and documentaries on celebrities of Latin American culture. He has lived in Cuba in Mexico. Besides fictions, concert videos and TV series, in 2017 he directed the documentary “Pablo Milanés”, winner of the Lucía Award at Gibara IFF.
This film qualifies for the People’s Choice Award, presented by:
