"La Habana de Fito"

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Image courtesy of Periódico Cubano

La Habana de Fito, Juan Pin Vilar (Cuba, 2022)

In the late 1980s, Argentine rock icon Fito Páez first visited Havana, invited by Pablo Milanés. His presence at a music festival shook the island, to which he returned many times. For him, it was love at first sight. Thirty years later, sitting on the terrace of a traditional hotel in Havana, Fito recounts his story with Cuba, its music, its people and its complex reality and contradictions.

Film will be screened in its original version, in Spanish.

About the Director

Juan Francisco Vilar Hernández (Cuba, 1963), better known as Juan Pin, is a director, writer and producer based in Havana. With a degree in Art History from the University of Havana, he has directed more than one hundred broadcasts in different genres for Cuban television. During a stay in Mexico he collaborated with various publications and produced six special broadcasts about Cuba for the program ¿Qué crees?, on Televisa San Ángel (1996). His works have also been broadcast on public and private television in the United States and Spain. Founder of the company Xpin Producciones, in 2017 he directed the documentary Pablo Milanés, which has never been shown in Cuba. His latest work, La Habana de Fito, has been at the center of a debate of international repercussion about censorship and the role of artists and intellectuals in Cuba today.

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