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Llamadas desde Moscú

Calls from Moscow
Still from the film „Llamadas desde Moscú“ by Luís Alejandro Yero. A man in a red coat is sleeping on a sofa.
© María Grazia Goya

Fri 24.02.
21:30

  • Director

    Luis Alejandro Yero

  • Cuba, Germany, Norway / 2023
    65 min. / Original version with English subtitles

  • Original language

    Spanish, Russian, English

  • Cinema

    Zoo Palast 2

    zu den Ticketszu dem Kalender

The apartment is so high up that the noise of the city below barely penetrates, the sound of the traffic and the passing trains merges with the wind and the ventilation system, a constant background hum. It only recedes when the four young Cubans speak, although they’re never seen together, they just talk to their phones and their phones respond, conversations with loved ones, sales consultations, advice services for immigrants, chats with the director, news reports, lip-synced pop renditions, calls not always picked up. They can be as fabulous as they want in the apartment, but the lift that brings them down to the Moscow streets is already a different space, where you stare out in front of you and avoid attracting attention; Russia and Cuba are so very far apart. It’s hard not to feel melancholy when faced with an emptied-out city and endless snow, and this winter is unlike all the others, not just darkness, but war and disease, signs of the times. But hope is still there, waiting at the other end of the line, with calm, with patience, home is many things at once, what else can it be right now? It’s small comfort, but there’s no comfort too small: everything little by little. (James Lattimer)

Funded by:

  • Logo Minister of State for Culture and the Media