The 2023 Latin American Film Festival is co-sponsored by the Center for Advanced Media Studies and the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures.

El acompañante, dir. Pavel Giroud, Cuba

Spanish with English subtitles

With Yotuel Romero, Armando Miguel Gómez, Camila Arteche, Yailene Sierra, Jazz Vilá, Jorge Molina

CUBA’S OFFICIAL ENTRY TO THE ACADEMY AWARDS

Set in 1988 Cuba as the government dispatched HIV patients to AIDS centers under military rule, The Companion narrates the unlikely friendship between a boxing champion and a conflictive patient.

After failing a doping test, Horacio Romero has no other choice but to serve a sentence. His fate is in Los Cocos, a sanatorium under military rule where HIV patients are compulsorily confined, with the exception of a weekly pass to visit their families under the supervision of personal wardens called “companions.”

As a “companion,” Horacio is supposed to keep an eye on Daniel -the most conflictive patient in the ward- and get him to comply to the regulations. Their interests immediately collide as Daniel is set to spend his last days in freedom and is ready to do anything to make this happen.

Horacio, on the other hand, dreams about boxing again to get his champion’s status back. For that to happen, however, he must first win this battle out of the ring…

https://pragda.com/film/the-companion/

Upcoming Screenings:

• Oct 3: A Bruddah’s Mind, Déo Cardoso / Brazil
  https://pragda.com/film/a-bruddahs-mind/

• Oct 17: Birds of Passage, Cristina Gallego & Ciro Guerra / Colombia
  https://pragda.com/film/birds-of-passage/

• Nov 7: Los Lobos, Samuel Kishi Leopo / Mexico
  https://pragda.com/film/los-lobos/

• Nov 28: El futuro perfecto, Nele Wohlatz / Argentina
  https://pragda.com/film/the-future-perfect/

• Dec 5: Freedom Is A Big Word, Guillermo Rocamora / Uruguay
  https://pragda.com/film/freedom-is-a-big-word/

5 PM, REMSEN HALL 10

Free Entrance

All films are captioned