Sunday Showcase/Latin American Film Festival

New Digital Restoration
One Way or Another (De cierta manera)
Directed by Sara Gómez

Sunday, October 16, 12:30 pm  Cinema +

FREE

The only feature from the radical Afro-Cuban filmmaker Sara Gómez—who also worked as an assistant director with Agnès Varda and Tomás Gutiérrez Alea before her untimely death at age thirty-one—is an extraordinary portrait of post-revolution Cuba. 

Blending invaluable documentary footage with a loose narrative about the budding relationship between an outspoken schoolteacher (Yolanda Cuellar) and a young worker (Mario Balmaseda) facing a moral crisis, One Way or Another depicts revolution as an ongoing process that takes place at the level of community—among friends, lovers, coworkers, teachers, students, and parents, all of whom must work together to negotiate a new social order. 

Above all, Gómez offers a trenchant intersectional critique of the lingering sexism and machismo that, she argues, must be cleared away to create a truly just society. 1977, Cuba, New 2K DCP, in Spanish with English subtitles, 73 minutes. Recommended for 15+.

Co-presented with the Latin American Film Festival, University of Louisville.

Cinema + With a post-screening discussion with Dr. Manuel Medina, Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Louisville and director of the Latin American Film Festival.