Dos patrias: Cuba y la noche | Two Homelands: Cuba and the Night Christian Liffers Germany/Cuba, Documentary, 2006 84 min., DVCam, Color Spanish with English Subtitles Metropolitan 12 Friday, April 20, 9 PM Mature Audiences

Producer Christian Liffers travels with his team to Cuba in search of evidence. In his luggage are poems and prose texts of the Cuban author Reinaldo Arenas—texts which describe the desire for love, sexual freedom and the proud and unbending attitude in the fight against discrimination. Are these desires and attitudes still to be found in Cuba? And which desires, clichés, and projections of Cuba attract the producer and many more people? Poems and prose texts are the reference points for the protagonists and their personal stories of present-day Cuba, which are always the center of attention. Six men with different backgrounds and of different ages describe their life, afflictions, desires, longings, and joys in Cuba. They have some things in common: homosexuality (with the exception of Isabel, the transsexual) and the daily social exclusion on the part of the Cuban “Machismo-society” and the Cuban government. However, they differ heavily concerning their social status and their opinions on the topic.

Christian Liffers studied theatre-direction in Hamburg and worked for several years as a director in German theatre. He has been working as a journalist for ten years and for the German television channel ZDF since 2001.

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Producer: Christian Liffers

Screenwriter: Christian Liffers

Cinematographer: Mirko Schernickau

Editing: Todd P. Mercuri

Music: Michael E. Rodríguez