Director: Gianni Minà
International Premiere
Plot
Francis, the Latin American Pope, visited Cuba in September 2015 on a four-day trip across the island, from Havana to Santiago before leaving for the United States. A deeply meaningful decision on his part, to help mediate and restore some of the stability of an unbalanced world.
Country: Italy | Cuba
Year: 2016
Genre: Documentary
Running Time: 216 min.
Production: GME Produzionik
Distribution: Rai Com
SHOWTIMES
Screening Time: 7:30 PM
Location: Cineplex Odeon Varsity
Language: Spanish and Italian
Subtitles: English
In Partership with
We aimed to document the moral integrity of a Pope who, in September 2013, gathered two-hundred thousand people in Saint Peter’s Square and called for the rejection of war, poverty and inequality.
Gianni Minà
Gianni Minà
One of the most esteemed RAI correspondents for over fifty years, Gianni paints the stories of North and South America’s social realities and customs using moving pictures. In 1981, Italy’s President Pertini awarded Gianni the Saint Vincent Prize for the best TV journalist of the year. Gianni interviewed icons like Federico Fellini, Muhammad Ali, Robert De Niro, Jane Fonda, Gabriel García Márquez, Enzo Ferrari and Eduardo De Filippo to name a few. In 1987, Minà produced a historic documentary, interviewing Cuba’s President Fidel Castro for 16 hours. Three years later, in 1990, he interviewed Fidel again for a report on the end of communism.
His latest feature length documentary: “Pope Francis, Cuba and Fidel” recounts how four of the most influential religious and political leaders of the world (Pope Francis, Obama, Fidel and Raul Castro) come to Cuba and brainstorm on ways to lift the senseless and antiquated American embargo.
