Unfinished Spaces

(USA, 2011, 84 mins)

World Premiere

Producers: Alysa Nahmias, Benjamin Murray
Cinematographer: Benjamin Murray
Editors: Kristen Nutile, Alex Minnick
Featuring: Ricardo Porro, Vittorio Garatti, Roberto Gottardi

In 1961, in the heady first days of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro asked three visionary architects to build the Cuban National Arts Schools on what had been the golf course of a country club. Before construction was completed, the Revolution became Sovietized, and suddenly the project was denounced as bourgeoise and counter-revolutionary. The story has many more fascinating twists and turns, as these radical, magnificent buildings become a prism through which we see the turbulent, ever-shifting history of Castro's Cuba and follow the fates of the three architects, now in their 80s, who would get a second chance to revitalize their utopian project.

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