Viva

Packs an emotional wallop...the fresh setting and superb performances validate the audience’s rapture.
-- Stephen Farber, Hollywood Reporter

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Viva

VIVA stars Héctor Medina as Jesus, a young hairdresser working at a Havana nightclub that showcases drag performers, who dreams of being a performer himself. Encouraged by his mentor, Mama (Luis Alberto García), Jesus finally gets his chance to take the stage. But when his estranged father Angel (Jorge Perugorría) abruptly reenters his life, his world is quickly turned upside down. As father and son clash over their opposing expectations of each other, VIVA becomes a love story as the men struggle to understand one another and reconcile as a family.

VIVA was a hit at the 2015 Telluride Film Festival, and is Ireland’s entry for the Best Foreign Film Academy Award this year.

“VIVID AND FRESH. Remarkable performances. At this film’s heart lies a real sense of tenderness.” – Casper Llewellyn Smith, The Guardian

“Delivers an emotional punch” – Wendy Ide, Screen Daily

“An emotion-filled drama that uncovers an authentic Cuba.” – Gary Kramer, Indiewire
R
Genre
Drama
Runtime
100
Language
Spanish
Director
Paddy Breathnach
Cast
Jorge Perugorría, Héctor Medina, Renata (Maikel Machín Blanco)
FEATURED REVIEW
Brandon Judell, Huffington Post

“Why is everyone on this fucking island addicted to drama?” the all-knowing Mama (a superb Luis Alberto Garcia) bemoans. Mama’s the owner of a Havana gay bar featuring chintzy drag performers who gesticulate to emotional diva tunes and who, when the show’s over, whore a little on the side. That’s ...

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