Viva
(Ireland/Cuba, 2015, 100min)
Dir. Paddy Breathnach
Friday, April 29, 2016, 5pm
Saturday, April 30, 2016, 7:45pm
Sunday, May 1, 2016, 4:30pm
Tuesday, May 3, 2016, 6:30pm
Thursday, May 5, 2016, 6:30pm
Vancity Theatre
Written and directed by Irishmen in Havana, Cuba, this is an outsider’s outsiders’ story, the irresistible tale of an 18-year-old wannabe-drag artiste learning to put over a song and ultimately winning over his homophobic ex-con father. It’s a little bit Billy Elliot, and a little bit Pedro Almodovar, all shot in what one character calls, “the most beautiful slum in the world.” more
In Spanish with English subtitles.