the cuban movie The Wild Womanthe debut feature of writer-director Alan González, will have its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).
The fiction feature film is an independent production that received financial support from the Cuban Film Promotion Fund (FFCC), and will have its official premiere in the Canadian city during one of the most important film events in the industry.
The contest will be held from September 7 to 17, and in this edition it brings together 26 titles from 25 countries. The Cuban tape is included in the Discovery section of the event.
The film stars Cuban actress Lola Amores, known for her work in Santa and Andrewwho plays a young mother who fights for the love of her son.
Along with Amores, the actors Isora Morales, Grisell Monzón, Yaité Ruiz, Leandro Sen, Afrodreak share the scene, in addition to the special collaboration of Jorge Perugorría and the debut of the child actor Jean Marcos Fraga.
In an interview for the independent media Cuban newspaperdirector Alan González spoke about The Wild Womanhighlighting the role of its protagonist as a complex character who is not only described as a woman, but as a human being.
“It’s a near real-time movie about a mother who survives a crime of passion and has to go across town to find her 12-year-old son and run away with him, but must face everyone who judges her for what happened and because of who she is (…), and her own feeling of guilt, which society has inoculated her with,” she described.
The character of the protagonist, her past and everything that makes up the reasoning with which she will make decisions throughout the plot, are exposed through the problems she faces in the story.
“For me the complexity of that protagonist is very important, because she is not the typical victim. She is a complex mother. But just because she and her son love each other, it doesn’t matter if she is not the mother that others expect her to be (…) No one has the right to separate them, ”she added.
Alan González is a graduate of the University of the Arts with a degree in Audiovisual Communication, and from the scriptwriting chair of the International Film and Television School (EICTV) of San Antonio de los Baños, where he is also a teacher.
Previously, he directed the short films The english teacher (2015), the anthill (2017) y Lovers (2018), and worked as a cinematographer on The Rose and the Thornby Sergei Svoboda, and in Ceilingby Patricia Ramos.
