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EL ACOMPAÑANTE

THE COMPANION

By Pavel GIROUD

HABANERO - as SALES All rights, World

Drama - Completed 2015

In the 80's, when fear spread faster than HIV, CUBA confined the epidemic behind a wall.

Ventana Sur 2015

Busan - BIFF/APM 2015

World Cinema

Chicago IFF 2015

World Cinema

Miami IFF 2016

Audience Award

Malaga 2016

Audience Award. Latin American Territory Section

Toulouse (ARCALT) 2016

Audience Award

Havana FF in NY 2016

Best Screenplay

- Year of production
- 2015
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- CUBA, FRANCE, PANAMA, VENEZUELA, COLOMBIA
- Languages
- SPANISH
- Budget
- 1 - 3 M$
- Duration
- 104 mn
- Director(s)
- Pavel GIROUD
- Writer(s)
- Pavel GIROUD
- Cast
- Yotuel ROMERO, Armando Miguel GOMEZ, Camila ARTECHE, Yailene SIERRA, Jazz VILA, Jorge MOLINA
- ISAN
- 0000-0003-F921-0000-I-0000-0000-K
- Producer(s)
- Lia RODRIGUEZ (Areté Audiovisual S.A), Antonio LOPEZ (Areté Audiovisual S.A), Edgard TENEMBAUM (Tu Vas Voir), Gustavo PAZMIN PEREA (IGOLAI PRODUCCIONES), Delfina CATALÁ (Nativa Pro Cinematográfica), Alexandra SOLÓRZANO (Nativa Pro Cinematográfica)
- Synopsis
- EL ACOMPAÑANTE is set in 1988 Cuba as the government dispatched HIV patients to AIDS centers under military rule. It narrates the friendship between Horacio Romero, a Cuban boxing champion that fails a drug test and must serve as a “companion” (an euphemism for warden) of Daniel, a conflictive patient.