
Before the Ferry Arrives
"Stories that could not happen anywhere else in the world, except in the Surrealist Republic of Cuba"
Synopsis
A portrait of Havana in the middle of the whirlwind of the post restoration of US-Cuba relations. An impasse of uncertainty and vertigo, a feeling of time standing still while future flies away.
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