Soy Palestino

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Director: 
Osama Qashoo
Year: 
2008
Format: 
DigiBeta

Palestinian director Osama Qashoo travels to Cuba and discovers Havana’s own Palestinians — poor black migrants; ‘Palestino’ is a term of racist abuse. He befriends a homeless Palestino, Louisito, a singer-musician who lives in a wooden box. Louisito had not been home for seven years, so he and Qashoo set off to meet his family, on a musical-comedy journey into the politics of today’s Cuba.

© 2006 Chicago Palestine Film Festival, Middle East Cultural and Charitable Society