ABISAL
Abyssal
Documental / Francia - Cuba / Color / 30min / 2021
Raudel trabaja en un desguazadero de barcos en el occidente de Cuba. Junto a sus compañeros, pasa sus días dentro del metal cortado y el petróleo quemado. Refugiados en el interior de los barcos hablan de espíritus y de historias que lo esperan en algún lugar. En sus ojos la esperanza se opone a este espacio donde la línea que separa a los vivos de los muertos es casi invisible.
Raudel works at a boat scrap yard in western Cuba. With his colleagues, he lives inside the jagged metal and the smoke of the oil when it burns. He talks about spirits, about stories that await him somewhere. In his eyes hope is opposed to that space where the line that separates the living from the dead is almost invisible.
WORLD PREMIERE
AWARDS
Golden Dove Short Documentary Film / DOK Leipzig / Germany
Audience Award International Competition / DocumentaMadrid / Spain
John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute Award / Full Frame Doc Film Festival / USA
Best Short Film / Havana Film Festival / Cuba
Awarded LLabor Competition Best Film / Mieres Under 60 Film Festival / Spain 2022
OTHERS FESTIVALS
Raindance Film Festival / UK
Curta Cinema / Brazil
RIDM / Canada
Kassel Dokfest / Germany
Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival / France
True/False Film Fest / USA
MiradasDoc / Spain
Lebu International Film Festival / Chile
Vilnius Film Festival - Kino Pavasaris / Lithuania
FCIU - Festival Cinematográfico Internacional del Uruguay / Uruguay
Doxa Documentary Film Festival / Canada
Festival Côté Court de Pantin / France
Third Horizon Film Festival / USA
Tabor Film Festival / Croatia
Documenta fifteen / Germany
Svaneti International Film Festival / Georgia
FIFIG - Festival International du Film Insulaire de Groix / France
Seoul International ALT Cinema & Media Festival (NeMaf) / South Korea
Villeurbanne Short Film Festival / France
Desafio Buñuel / Spain
Le Cri du Court / France
Mediterranean Film Festival / Bosnia and Herzegovina
Festival International du film documentaire d’Amazonie et caraïbes / France
Lima Alterna / Peru
MIDBO / Colombia
Frontera Sur / Chile
The Belgrade documentary and short film festival - Martovski Festival / Serbia
Faito Doc Festival / Italy
Festival de Cine Instar / Cuba, USA, Mexico, Argentina, France, Brazil
Panorama de Cine Colombiano (PACCPA) / France
Archipiélago Fílmico / México
Festival Film Documenter / Indonesia
CREW
Director and Cinematographer/ Alejandro Alonso
Producers / Boris Prieto, Alejandro Alonso & Oderay Ponce de León
Production companies / La Concretera Producciones (Cuba), Vega Alta Films (France)
Scriptwriters / Lisandra López Fabé & Alejandro Alonso
Editor / Emmanuel Peña
Sound engineer / AlejandroPérez
Sound design / Glenda L. Martinez Cabrera & Velia Diaz de Villalvilla
Music / Pepe Gavilondo
Color/ Nancy Angulo
REVIEWS
Filmexplorer - Abyssal / Jorge Yglesias
Abyssal: Navigating time and space in a pile of shipwrecks
Film review Abyssal / James Rosario
Abisal o la fuga de lo concreto / Antonio E. González Rojas
El corazón de las tinieblas de Alejandro Alonso / Dean Luis Reyes
Dernier verre avec Abisal / Élise Loiseau
