Fernando Hechavarría
President Barack Obama visited Cuba on March 21 and 22, 2016. It was the first trip of a US president since the 1950s. In 2017 Trump was elected in the United States signaling changes in relations with the country. How to survive being who we are? Is it possible to continue to be what we are? This is what Cubans seem to be asking themselves the whole time, in a question that, in the face of enormous political and social crises, extends to the whole world. HIJOS DE LA REVOLUCION is a film that goes in search of the future at all times. Which brings a look at what can be, questions that need to be asked and redone. A journey of recognition, zoom-in and zoom-out of Cuba through the eyes of its artists, revealing the power of music, theater and cinema in the rescue of roots, culture and the most powerful expression of the soul of a people!
Sun is setting on Havana. Five friends are gathered to celebrate the return of Amadeo after 16 years of exile in Madrid.
On an observatory set high on a mountain, astronomers make a stunning discovery somewhere out in the galaxy. A flying object in the depths of the cosmos is showing signs of life, emitting an intelligent signal. The UFO has just landed on Earth somewhere in the midst of a rainforest. Margot, the enthusiastic young woman heading up the research team, decides to go to the spot and check out this phenomenon. Meanwhile Edouard, our hero, studies the flora and fauna of the tree tops in the rainforest. He perches on an enormous net that stretches over the still pure, unadulterated forest that spreads out beneath him. He discovers a naked little twelve-year old girl seated on the net. He covers her with a broad banana leaf and asks where she comes from. She quickly replies, in perfect French 'from another world'.
