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• 02 / 26 / 2010

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Cuban film Scented Oak (Roble de Olor) by director Rigoberto Lopez was the main dish of an evening dedicated to Cuba in this capital within the 5th Anticolonial Week held in France.
 
This film is defined by the director as a look at the present from the past and a speech against intolerance.
 
The film, which deals with vicissitudes of a German man and a Haitian woman in the early 19th century who founded the largest coffee plantation in western Cuba, is a call to the defense of identity and cultural diversity.
 
Sponsored by France-Cuba and Other Mail solidarity associations, the evening serve as a tribute to 115 anniversary of the Independency War started by the National Hero of the island Jose Marti on February 24, 1895.
 
In a debate after the film exhibition, the US hostile policy against Cuba, the blockade and the installation of military bases in Latin America.
 
Cuban artist Francisco Rivero, resident in France highlighted the permanent process of ethnic integration that formed his country's cultural identity.
 
The story of love, obsession and hope expressed in the film is a call to live in a better world, he added.

Source: Prensa Latina