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SERGIO & SERGEI

• Director: Ernesto Daranas
• CUBA, SPAIN / 2017 / DCP / Colour / 93´ / Spanish, English, Russian; Turkish, English s.t.

• Screenplay: Ernesto Daranas, Marta Daranas
• Director of Photography: Alejandro Menéndez
• Editing: Jorge Miguel Quevedo
• Music: Micka Luna
• Cast: Tomás Cao, Héctor Noas Uriza, Ron Perlman
• Producer: Jaume Roures, Joel Ortega, Ramón Samada
• Production Co.: Mediaproducción S.L.U., RTV Comercial, ICAIC
• World Sales: WestEnd Films
• Turkish Rights: Sinema TV

Cuban director Ernesto Daranas, whose film Behavior opened the Festival in 2015, returns with Sergio & Sergei and presents a story which shows that borders and differences have no meaning. Cuban Sergio is a young academic and amateur radio enthusiast who lives hand to mouth. One day, he makes an unexpected contact with Russian cosmonaut Sergei who is stranded on a space station and an unusual friendship ensues. The film takes place in early 1990s during the dissolution of the Soviet Union, and takes a humorous look at one of the turning points in history as it elegantly blends the daily life in Cuba with life in outer space.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.