NCLAFF. Todos se van / Everybody Leaves. Sergio Cabrera. 91min. 2014. Colombia/Cuba

10.25. Tuesday. Nelson Mandela Auditorium, Fedex Global Education Center, UNC-Chapel Hill. 7pm

Todos se van / Everybody Leaves. Sergio Cabrera. 91min. 2014. Colombia/Cuba

Shot in Colombia (because the director didn't get permission to film in Cuba) and featuring a cast consisting mostly of expatriate Cuban actors, Everybody Leaves is a celebration of freedom and a confrontation of the authoritarian Cuban regime of the 1980s, which led to one of the country's worst economic crises. The film is based on the award-winning novel by Cuban writer Wendy Guerra. Eight-year-old Nieve is the object of her parents' custody battle. Her mother, Eva, is an artist who believes in the revolution and disagrees with censorship or authoritarianism. She is re-married to Dan, a Swede working on the construction of a nuclear plant. Nieve's father Manuel is a playwright who sacrifices his artistic career to write government propaganda in a remote area of the country. Through her diary entries, Nieve reveals intimate details of a turbulent family life while painting an authentic portrait of the social and political unrest in Cuba under the rule of Castro.