Anima

Manuel Mateo, Documentary, 2022, Cuba, 19:39 minutes

Direction: Manuel Mateo

Production: Yenisleidis Vázquez Capote / EICTV

Co-scrip writring: Fede Blanco

Direction of photography: Juliette Valentin

Sound engineering: Pablo Cervera

Edition: Adelaida Sancristóbal

Synopsis
The day goes by at a captivity center, while the mysterious world of sheltered animals is exposed. The cycles of birth and death frame their lives, which pass by among everyday rituals of care and control. What do animals express when they look directly into our eyes?

Prices
­­­­• Winner of the Astor Piazzolla award for best Latin American short film at the 37th edition of the Mar del Plata Film Festival, Argentina, 2022

­­­­• Winner of the best Latin American short film at the Festival International of cinema schools in Uruguay, Montevideo, Uruguay, 2023

Festivals
­­­­• True/False Film Fest 2024, Columbia, Missouri
­­­­• DISFF, Drama International Short Film Festival, 2023, Dráma, Greece
­­­­• Bogotá Short Film Festival 2023, National documentary competence, Bogotá, Colombia

Anima

Manuel Mateo, Documentary, 2022, Cuba, 19:39 minutes

Direction: Manuel Mateo

Production: Yenisleidis Vázquez Capote / EICTV

Co-scrip writring: Fede Blanco

Direction of photography: Juliette Valentin

Sound engineering: Pablo Cervera

Edition: Adelaida Sancristóbal

Synopsis
The day goes by at a captivity center, while the mysterious world of sheltered animals is exposed. The cycles of birth and death frame their lives, which pass by among everyday rituals of care and control. What do animals express when they look directly into our eyes?

Prices
­­­­• Winner of the Astor Piazzolla award for best Latin American short film at the 37th edition of the Mar del Plata Film Festival, Argentina, 2022

­­­­• Winner of the best Latin American short film at the Festival International of cinema schools in Uruguay, Montevideo, Uruguay, 2023

Festivals
­­­­• True/False Film Fest 2024, Columbia, Missouri
­­­­• DISFF, Drama International Short Film Festival, 2023, Dráma, Greece
­­­­• Bogotá Short Film Festival 2023, National documentary competence, Bogotá, Colombia