Juliette Valentin

Entre dos Islas

Hideki Nakazaki, Fiction, 2022, Cuba, 12:01 minutes

With Sayu Domínguez
Direction: Hideki Nakazaki
Production: Samuel Didonato / Javier Del Álamo / EICTV
Co-scrip writing: José Carlos Jiménez
Direction of photography: Juliette Valentin
Sound engineering: Harry Suárez
Edition: Lisa María Velázquez

Synospis
Sayu struggles to construct her identity. On the one hand, she's a Cuban who skates and loves to sing, but on the other, she's a Japanese girl whose family wants to bring her back to Japan to give her a better future.

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• Winner of the Americana Award at the 27th edition of the Regard Festival, Saguenay, Canada, 2022.

Festivals

• 37th edition of the Mar del Plata Film Festival, official selection for the best Latin American short film Argentina, 2022

• 45th edition of the Clermont-Ferrand International Short-Film Festival, Clermont-Ferrand, France, 2023

• Chicago Latin Film Festival 2023, Chicago, USA

• Nouveaux Regards Film Festival 2023, Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe

• Philadelphia Latino Film Festival 2023, Philadelphia, USA

• Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia 2023, Tokyo, Japan

• Shorts International Festival, Trieste, Italy

• CineLatino Festival 2023, Tubingen, Germany

• Minikino Film Week at the Bali International Short Film Festival 2023, Bali, Indonesia

• FESAALP, Latin-American film festival of Plata 2023, Buenos Aires, Argentina

• Festival de Biarritz Amérique Latine 2023, Biarritz, France

• Fifig, Festival International du Film Insulaire de Groix 2023, Iles de Groix, France

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