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Thursday, April 7 @ 6:30pm
Directors Guild Theater
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EL ACOMPAÑANTE / THE COMPANION
Pavel Giroud | Cuba – Colombia – Panama – Venezuela – France | 2015 | Fiction | 104min | N.Y. Premiere
Directors Guild Theater 4/7 @ 6:30pm – Director and lead actor present for Q&A
Starring Latin Grammy® winner Yotuel Romero, The Companion is set in 1988 Cuba as the government dispatches HIV patients to AIDS centers under military rule. It narrates the friendship between Daniel, a hositle patient, and Horacio, a Cuban boxing champion who fails a drug test and must serve as his “companion.”
Protagonizada por el ganador del Latin Grammy® Yotuel Romero, El acompañante se desarrolla en 1988 en Cuba, cuando el gobierno envió a los pacientes con VIH a los centros de SIDA para ser atendidos bajo un régimen militar. Narra la amistad entre Horacio Romero, campeón de boxeo cubano, que no pasa la prueba de la droga y debe servir como un “compañero” de Daniel, un paciente conflictivo.
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17th Havana Film Festival New York April 7- 15, 2016
