The Cuban filmmaker Alejandro Yero will participate in Berlinale Talents 2020

January 23, 2020

One of the most relevant young Cuban filmmakers today, Luis Alejandro Yero, was invited to participate in the Berlinale Talents 2020, a summit that is part of the 70th edition of the Berlin International Film Festival, thanks to his films, which combine the intimate and the political as rare atmospheres that haunt his resilient characters.

Among his films we have "Notes on the Shore" (2016), "The Cemetery Lights Up" (2018) and "The Old Heralds" (2018); audiovisual works that showcase the new aesthetic expressions adopted by documentary cinema in Cuba.

Yero, born in 1989, has come to stand out in just a few years as a filmmaker distinguished by his discourse and anthropological perspective.

This year, the Berlinale Talents, which will take place from February 22 to 27, analyzes tested and experimental community models in four creative fields: cinema, film set, company and society. Film, art and theater collectives from around the world will come to Berlin for nearly 100 talks, workshops and networking events.

"By exploring the 'collective,' Berlinale Talents responds to a clear desire within the film scene to find new forms of collaboration beyond established hierarchies. It will be exciting to experience how such a different understanding can harness creative potential," assures on the event's website the executive director of the Berlin International Film Festival, Mariette Rissenbeek.

This Festival emerged in 1951 at the beginning of the Cold War and is still considered the most political of the main film festivals worldwide.