Catalogue > Un extrait vidéo au hasard

Filmed in the remote hamlet of Juan Antonio, Cuba, just before it was wiped out by a hurricane, El árbol de las fresas (The Strawberry Tree) tests the boundaries between anthropology, documentary and reverie while capturing the final sigh of one of Cuba`s last fishing villages. The villagers? ingeniousness and resilience, as well as their playful and irreverent relationship with the filmmaker, render a sensitive portrait of a unique culture into a reflection on documentary filmmaking and on humanity on the edge of time.

Simone Rapisarda Casanova is a former computer scientist. He grew up in rural Sicily and currently lives in Montreal, Canada. He holds a Master of Fine Arts in film production from York University in Toronto. El árbol de las fresas is his first feature film.