img

Carbón

Director: Davide Tisato
Filmmaker's profile

Nivardo and Ismael, more than seventy years old, are producing charcoal to survive in the current economic context of Cuba. Night after night, the two best friends are guarding a process of change, hidden behind a fraught smoke.

Details

Duration: 25min.

Country: Switzerland, France

Language: Spanish

Year: 2020

Genre: Documentary

Topic: Biography, Black Identity, Brotherhood, Documentary, Economic status, Environment, Friendship, Hispanic, Human Relationship, Latino, Loneliness, Mystery, Myth, Old Age, Relationship, Senior/Aging, Social, Society

Cast & Crew

Director: Davide Tisato

Production company: Ecran Mobile and Les Soeurs Jauen (Coproduction)

Writer: Davide Tisato

Cinematographer: Davide Tistao

Editor: Bruno Herrero

Actors: Nivardo Cuello Limonta, Ismael Ramirez Carrión

Distributor Company: Ecran Mobile

Festivals & Awards

2020

Winterthur International Short Film Festival Winterthur International Short Film Festival Best Swiss Film

Doc Lisboa

Solothurner Filmtage

Go Short – International Short Film Festival Nijmegen

Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano del La Habana

International Short Film Festival Psarokokalo

Loading

You may also like

Jamlitz: A Documentary Fairy-Tale

33 min. | 2026

img

There are many doors in my mother’s apartments

18 min. | 2024

img

Connecting dad

19 min. | 2020

img

Two Hours a Day

12 min. | 2023

img