Los Cimarrones (The Fugitives)
by Dami Saínz
Cuba, 2021
synopsis
The night finds Orestes in a thick tropical forest holding a machete and looking furiously for Damián, his younger brother. Orestes discovers his brother having sex with another man. What happens next will change the brothers’ lives forever.
about the director
Dami Saínz is a Cuban filmmaker who has directed around ten short films, selected and awarded at international film festivals like Havana, Fribourg, Ficunam, Documenta Madrid, and Xposed. Their films tackle the Afrocuban and LGBTQ culture. Since 2018 they organize and curate Cineclub CUIR, an independent project of film exhibition in Cuba with a clear queer, feminist and antiracist vision.
Sainz graduated from the University of Arts, Havana, Cuba, and from the EICTV with a degree in documentary direction. Sainz also studied at the Mel Hoppenheim Film School in Montreal, and at the Cinema du Réel Department at HEAD Genève. Dami has worked as a director, editor, and producer on documentary films in Cuba, Canada, Switzerland, and Spain and has collaborated with visual arts projects like Galleria Continua, Ludwig Foundation, and Citta de L’Arte.
Since 2016, Saínz has taught and advised in documentary film at EICTV, and has also been invited as a professor at the Ludwig Foundation in Cuba and at Altos de Chavón in the Dominican Republic.
