1 03/14/2021 – 2:33 PM (GMT-4)
That’s what the young Joglis Peña Suárez said after seeing the film Plantados, by the director Lilo Vilaplanahe hopes that justice will one day be done to those who committed crimes against humanity in Cuba.
“I just saw the movie” Plantados “and it brought up my tears,” the Cuban resident of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, confessed on Facebook.
Peña Suárez has been out of Cuba for three years, away from his children and other family members, and seeing the feature film, which premiered at the Miami Film Festival last Friday, made him think about the communist dictatorship and how many have fallen victim to it. the regime. founded by Fidel Castro in 1959.
“I feel even more longings for justice and trial against those murderers who stole so many of us and our people. humanity, ”he wrote. on the social network.
CiberCuba contacted the young Cuban, who is awaiting an answer to his asylum application, and he confessed that while the film broadly describes some of the crimes of Castroism, many more difficult moments have remained in the hearts of loved ones and those who suffered them.
“Today’s youth should know the history of Cuba that the dictatorship has been trying to hide, because this is the only way to understand where we come from and what we don’t want for the future,” he added.
One of the scenes that most affected Peña Suárez was the moment when the daughters of one of the characters did not recognize their father. “They not only steal our children from us, but they indoctrinate them,” he said.
Undoubtedly, the hardest for the young Cuban to assimilate was the physical violations shown in the feature film “Plantados”, as well as the brutal treatment, not for pleasure, he says it was reflected at various times.
“I was born into a Baptist Christian family. My family suffered from the expropriation of my maternal great-grandfather’s shop, which was also his home and who died insane; my mother’s cousins were also in the UMAP concentration camps for Being already a Christian, my mother was denied medical studies because of her faith, ”recalls Peña Suárez.
He recalled that his father was in prison for six months without knowing the crime he was accused of when his children were between the ages of 3 and 4. “After he was released, they didn’t even apologize,” he said.
As for the future for Cuba and the possibility of rebuilding the country, he believed that it should be based on justice without implying an amnesty for those who themselves have committed crimes against Cubans who think otherwise the ruling party.
“We are not murderers like them,” he claimed.
It is not the first opinion that young Cubans have expressed about Vilaplana’s film. Activist Lázaro Mireles came from Madrid to describe it as ‘impressive’.
“You cannot imagine the great pain that entered my soul when I saw that movie, the great impotence I experienced when I put myself in the shoes of all the people who have happened so much, in that struggle of so many years, that so valuable fight, in that so necessary fight against the Castro dictatorship, ”said the also coordinator of the group Actions for Democracy.
“Plantados”, scripted by Lilo Vilaplana, Ángel Santiesteban and Juan Manuel Cao, premiered this Friday in Havana and Miami, thanks to the fact that the film was distributed for free on the island.
“I think this film will help open eyes, create awareness, think. I think it is a teaching to the minions themselves, who must see themselves in this mirror and refuse to oppress the citizens who want freedom for Cuba, ”he added Santiesteban from Cuba.
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