Thursday, September 24th at 7 p.m. • O Cinema South Beach
• ArtesMiami is proud to sponsor an exclusive screening of the acclaimed Cuban drama The Uncle’s Request, followed by a Q&A with writer and director Ricardo Bacallao and actor Vidal Silva.
In New York City, an aging Cuban exile recognizes the face of a stranger: the government official responsible for killing his brother back in Cuba decades earlier, the same brother who was his young grandnephew’s grandfather. Unable to confront the man himself, he turns to that grandnephew with one impossible request: to find justice for a death the family was never allowed to properly mourn. As the search unfolds, the film follows how a single act of violence in Cuba’s past continues to shape a Cuban American family in the present, pulling a young man raised far from that history into a reckoning he never asked for.
Written and directed by Cuban-born filmmaker Ricardo Bacallao and shot entirely in New York City, The Uncle’s Request is inspired by real historical events and tells a hard line Cuban exile story that speaks to a wider immigrant experience of memory, loss, and inherited grief. The film won the Best Screenplay (Feature) award at the Manhattan Film Festival.