1965 | Cuba, Spain | Short

Ociel del Toa (Ociel from Toa)

  • Spanish - 16 mins
  • Director | Nicolás Guillén Landrián
  • Writer | -
  • Producer | Luis Tejera Fernández, Ernesto Daranas Serrano

STATUS: Released

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Landrián travelled to the Baracoa province with his cameraman, Livio Delgado. Of the three films they shot there, the most famous is Ociel del Toa: a poetic and sensual meditation on rural life and the everyday paces of work. Ociel, a 13-year-old boy, plies the Toa river in his canoe.

rural life poetic documentary sensory exploration childhood
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