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Calls from Moscow
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Luis Alejandro Yero’s striking first feature focuses on a group of migrants and their temporary dwelling in a snowy Moscow high-rise complex. The Russian capital was a pathway for the four young queer Cubans seeking to emigrate from the island until Russia’s invasion of Ukraine puts their fate in limbo.
They live in the city as migrants, some illegal, others recently arrived with a tourist visa. They work at whatever they can find, whether cleaning groceries or as telemarketers selling medicine. They can be as fabulous as they want in the apartment, but the elevator that brings them down to the Moscow streets is already a different space, where they avoid attracting attention; Russia and Cuba are so very far apart.
Spare and intensely felt, the film records their connections to the outside world—phone calls with loved ones, immigration service lines, even remote work—that punctuate the silence and bring small comforts. Far away from the city streets where a bleak war campaign is taking hold, Calls from Moscow quietly contemplates an internal world of waiting.
“Yero’s artfully methodical observational film injects an essential perspective into the queer canon. Yero and cinematographer María Grazia Goya favour static long takes that capture the malaise of the waiting game.” — Pat Mullen, POV Magazine
“Between the stillness and empty spaces, the ambient sounds and ominous alien droning, the exquisite framing of rooms and the desperate exiles “trapped” inside them, a jarring existential portrait emerges: Like watching Tolstoy body-snatch Havana.” — Lauren Wissot, Filmmaker Magazine
Citation
Main credits
Yero, Luis Alejandro (film director)
Yero, Luis Alejandro (screenwriter)
Yero, Luis Alejandro (film producer)
Sánchez López, Daniel (film producer)
Fernanda Pirir, Elisa (film producer)
Other credits
Cinematography, María Grazia Goya; editing, Luis Alejandro Yero.
Distributor subjects
Migration Studies; Gender + Sexuality Studies; Caribbean Studies; Exile; Political Science; Fascism + Repression; International Relations; Afro-Latin; Latin American StudiesKeywords
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That time you spent with me
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Is a concluded chapter
without a happy end.
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I know that woman whom you give
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What you never wanted to give me.
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She dares to say that
I have no dignity
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And she pities me.
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Perhaps I should resign and
don't call you anymore.
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Perhaps I should respect myself
and not beg you anymore.
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Perhaps I should...
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CALLS FROM MOSCOW
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Sergei?
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Sergei speaking.
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Okay, so let's see us at twelve?
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To give you the key of the apartment,
is it fine for you?
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Twelve... out apartment.
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Yes, yes. But are you going to be here
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to give you the key of the house?
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At twelve?
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Misha!
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Excuse me, repeat please.
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Hi!
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- Hi.
- Hey, how are you?
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- I'm fine and you?
- Fine, fine.
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So at twelve are you going
to be here
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to give you the key of
the apartment, is it fine?
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Okay...
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Twelve or...?
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Twelve or one, whatever you want.
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At twelve o'clock.
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What hour, sorry?
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- At twelve o'clock.
- At 12 o'clock, okay.
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Okay, see you at twelve.
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Thank you very much.
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Thank you, thank you.
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- Bye
- Good bye.
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Okay.
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Day 13.
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Calling to the flat's owner, clip...
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- What clip?
- Look at it there.
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Well, guys.
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The first news
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that I want to tell you
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is this:
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There is work to be done.
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If we didn't have applications before,
well now we do.
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We are going to have to be
working even
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double shifts.
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Pregnant women and nursing mothers:
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we must sell them!
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If the clients say that
they saw drops
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instead of capsules,
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capsules instead of cream,
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pills instead of capsules:
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you have to convince them
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that what they are getting
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is far better.
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Good morning to everyone.
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Good afternoon, how are you?
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You know these are my little chicks.
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Speak up, I can't hear you,
how are you doing today?
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Everything fine, good.
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Gentlemen,
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what I want you to know
is that school is out.
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There's no time to loose, there's no
tear to cry.
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You have to seat to work, to sell
and make money.
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Nothing else.
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I believe that the biggest pressure
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on young people is to believe
in themselves,
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to know that you are unique,
that's what makes you beautiful.
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Stop comparing yourself to others!
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Let's talk about other stuff
happening worldwide.
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This is what you must understand.
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Speak up, you are the leaders
of your own lives.
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You have your own voice.
I believed in myself
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and that's why I'm here.
Thank you.
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Right there, within the group...
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...In the group "Cubans in Moscow".
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Search for Yabó de Elegguá and
you'll see my postings.
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There you'll see
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the link to the group.
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Touch it and enter to the group.
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There you can ask me
anything you want.
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Everything.
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I'll explain because many
people are asking me,
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I can help you with round-trip tickets,
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PCR, accommodation,
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- just for people who come to buy.
- Wow...
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Not for those who come to stay.
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I can get accommodation for buyers
and a shopping guide.
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Have you tried it?
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Better not, that's right.
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Viagra damages your health.
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So, you are a 56 years old person.
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You have decreased sexual desire.
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You have a weak erection.
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You had problems
of premature ejaculation,
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and a reduced sensibility during
intimacy over the last 7 months.
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Right?
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Yes, as a specialist I can recommend
a 60 day treatment
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only for 420.000.
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But if this is expensive for you,
I can recommend a minor treatment,
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much cheaper
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for only 329.000 pesos.
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You would like to try it.
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So what?
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Nothing, just missing you
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ever more.
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I'm crazy for being over there.
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I hope so.
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Good.
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I hope so.
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Yeah, if only that.
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So lucky we have each other, if not...
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Well, I won't keep you any
longer, got to work.
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Me too, my love.
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Kisses.
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...Heavily guarded by the police.
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Murderers!
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What do you want to find
in the autopsy of my brother?!
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What are you trying to say?!
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That he died of a heart attack?!
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Are you trying to say that he died
of a heart attack?!
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With the autopsy?!
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He was shot to death!
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There's nothing more to say,
nothing more to do.
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In an extraordinarily short time,
the Cuban regime
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informed through the Ministry
of Internal Affairs
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about the murder of the Cuban
musician Roldi Polo Perez.
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The murder of Roldi Polo in Baracoa
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happens in the midst of increased
violence across the island
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denounced in social networks
by the Cubans.
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The Ministry denounced the so called
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enemy subversive media in
social networks,
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of allegedly manipulating and
creating versions of the case,
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to damage the image of the police
in the island.
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- Hello.
- Hello Juanca, how are you?
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Tell me about your day.
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Well, work...
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and work,
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under the snow, it is white all around.
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What are you doing?
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Working in construction.
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Construction is a tough job,
isn't it?
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Yes, obviously but
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it was tougher to live
in Cuba, unfortunately.
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Of course I'm not happy.
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But being in Cuba
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suffering the needs that
the country is going through,
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I rather be here, where I can
help my mother in one way or another.
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Also to my brother and close family.
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To be in Cuba without
future, or nothing,
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a rotten country in need
and full of misery...
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Because the things I can't solve there,
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I can solve for my family
from here, so...
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Nothing...
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Keep on going.
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How has it been from the
end of the year up to now?
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The 8th was the first anniversary
of my arrival in this country.
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And...
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It is a sad day for me.
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I felt a bit oppressed and nostalgic.
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Why?
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I don't know, a year here...
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far away from home,
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from my family and loved ones.
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Maybe the stagnation of
having stayed in Moscow
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and not having moved forward to Germany
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or Italy.
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I mean...
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It's like I've adapted already.
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I'm no longer
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the boy who arrived to this country,
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who just wanted to come
back after
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the first 72 hours.
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I was scared and feared
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the change.
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Change scares everyone.
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Juanqui, have you ever considered
moving to another country?
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I wouldn't expose myself to that.
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To cross the border through Serbia...
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to get to Spain,
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with Europe being in crisis
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with all the war around
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and the winter that will affect
the European Union.
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I don't know. I want to be here.
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I have a hunch that sooner
or later my life here
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is going to change, so the
origin of everything
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starts here.
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starts here.
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And what about the war?
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Everything seems to be getting worse.
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Life is normal over here.
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No one talks about the war,
no one says anything.
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The day that I see a bomb drop
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or a missile flying by,
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I'll prepare a bag with three
or four sets of clothing
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and I'll go to the subway.
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What can I say?
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What's the point of talking
and analyzing if
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we are not going to solve anything.
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Nor the Russians will solve anything.
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This is a country without a democracy.
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You don't have the right to express
what you feel and believe.
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- You're not safe anywhere.
- Do you have to work tomorrow?
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Yes, I have to work tomorrow.
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- Time to sleep, then.
- I have to go now.
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Go to sleep that is almost
one in Moscow.
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Take care.
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And be good.
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You be good too.
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- Okay, bye.
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Okay. Kisses.
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Then you do it, you go and get
the tests done
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and then you incorporate.
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Then you pick up the results
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and that's it.
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But...
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When you get them done, it's
one less thing to do.
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Remember that you have to go home.
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You have to carry a lot of stuff.
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Then you have to come back.
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Etcetera, etcetera, etcetera...
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These things can be
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solved little by little, with time.
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Yes, honey, but
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every time is: "I'll do it.
I'll do it...", but you don't.
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"Next week I'm going."
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"The next week I have a chance."
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And the next week, but you
just don't do it.
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I don't like to be on your
back for everything,
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nor having to tell you all the time.
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In the end this is for you, not for me.
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Hey.
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Hey.
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You' would be attacking fat
that regularly
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is stored in our body.
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Unfortunately,
00:23:25.520 --> 00:23:28.820
after six months it is more
difficult to eliminate.
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Anyway, don't worry,
Lipogenetic has been created
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to attack the fat
that could remain for years.
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So, without problems nor
medical contraindications
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you could be taking any
kind of medication,
00:23:41.050 --> 00:23:43.050
and it won't have negative effects.
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Right.
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Yes, don't worry.
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Also, all of our
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products are certified by
00:23:52.450 --> 00:23:54.190
the U.P. in Bulgaria.
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All the certification records
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are in the ISO organizations.
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Yes, perfect.
00:24:01.420 --> 00:24:03.790
Well, as a specialist I would
recommend
00:24:03.790 --> 00:24:05.790
to take yourself a picture
00:24:05.790 --> 00:24:08.190
before starting the treatment,
and weight yourself again
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thus the results would
be more accurate.
00:24:10.590 --> 00:24:13.390
Then take a new picture
and reweigh yourself
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after the treatment, so you would be
00:24:15.390 --> 00:24:17.690
able to see the results
with your own eyes.
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If it is alright for you,
I can recommend
00:24:19.690 --> 00:24:21.390
a 60-day treatment
00:24:21.390 --> 00:24:23.810
only for 420.000 pesos.
00:24:24.610 --> 00:24:26.210
But if it seems expensive for you,
00:24:26.210 --> 00:24:27.620
we can adapt the offer.
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We have a 40-day treatment
00:24:29.420 --> 00:24:32.020
where you can also
00:24:32.020 --> 00:24:36.210
start the treatment just
for 340.000 pesos.
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I would recommend the 60-day's.
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Even more after July the 11th,
00:25:16.080 --> 00:25:18.980
the regime's mask fell off.
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Cuban people took to the streets
00:25:20.980 --> 00:25:23.580
and Europe witnessed how
the handpicked president,
00:25:23.580 --> 00:25:26.080
called for civil war among Cubans
00:25:26.080 --> 00:25:28.780
flooding the country with
revolutionary police carrying sticks.
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Black berets like Mussolini's Blackshirts.
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Fear and repression ever since.
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To the eyes of the world,
Cuba is a repressive dictatorship.
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From Russia, that not only threatens
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to the U.S.A., it also threatens
to Cubans
00:25:44.690 --> 00:25:46.420
living outside the island
00:25:46.420 --> 00:25:48.420
and who support the regime.
00:25:48.420 --> 00:25:51.820
Then, Putin is threatening
with military attacks
00:25:51.820 --> 00:25:53.820
with missiles to the Florida State.
00:25:53.820 --> 00:25:56.220
Threatening to harm millions of Cubans
00:25:56.220 --> 00:25:59.150
in Miami, to the Cubans in that region,
00:25:59.150 --> 00:26:01.450
who are the ones that support
the Cuban family
00:26:01.450 --> 00:26:03.650
with recharges and shipments.
00:26:03.650 --> 00:26:05.990
And also, who indirectly support
00:26:05.990 --> 00:26:08.290
to the Castros, Canel,
and the whole elite.
00:26:08.290 --> 00:26:12.390
Thus, Russia would knock down
businesses even for the Castro's.
00:26:12.390 --> 00:26:14.690
Raul and Canel even
00:26:14.690 --> 00:26:16.490
keep so quiet.
00:26:16.490 --> 00:26:18.490
This is the final straw!
00:26:18.490 --> 00:26:21.090
This isn't any more to have
Cuba as a prostitute.
00:26:21.090 --> 00:26:22.990
This is to reduce the island
00:26:22.990 --> 00:26:25.690
to sex slavery.
00:26:25.690 --> 00:26:29.550
You say you'll kill those who
give me some money
00:26:29.550 --> 00:26:31.650
and I shut up out of fear
00:26:31.650 --> 00:26:33.050
and hide under the bed.
00:26:33.050 --> 00:26:34.180
Rats!
00:26:34.180 --> 00:26:36.180
You know what is even worse?
00:26:36.180 --> 00:26:38.080
You know what is more denigrating?
00:26:38.080 --> 00:26:41.380
Everything that Colonel
Viktor Baranets said,
00:26:41.380 --> 00:26:43.380
and what Putin says, man.
00:26:43.380 --> 00:26:44.480
This is a bluff.
00:27:19.480 --> 00:27:20.710
...Yesterday.
00:27:22.850 --> 00:27:24.980
Mom, exactly, that's even worse.
00:27:24.980 --> 00:27:26.780
People like that,
00:27:26.780 --> 00:27:28.780
the longer they last, the worse.
00:27:29.480 --> 00:27:30.720
Isn't it so?
00:27:30.720 --> 00:27:32.920
They suffer, the family suffers,
everybody suffers.
00:27:32.920 --> 00:27:34.920
My dad died the same way, mom.
00:27:34.920 --> 00:27:37.220
My dad died just like that, overnight.
00:27:38.570 --> 00:27:40.320
I'm grateful to good
00:27:40.320 --> 00:27:43.020
that it was like this, because
why should everyone suffer?
00:27:45.720 --> 00:27:47.550
It's sad anyway.
00:27:47.550 --> 00:27:49.550
Who wouldn't like to have
his father alive
00:27:49.550 --> 00:27:51.250
even if he's 190 years old.
00:27:51.450 --> 00:27:53.650
But not rotting in bed.
00:27:53.650 --> 00:27:55.650
No, not in pieces.
00:27:55.950 --> 00:27:57.650
That's crazy.
00:27:59.150 --> 00:28:00.150
Oh, Lord.
00:28:00.250 --> 00:28:02.450
Come on, it's not a day for
sad conversations.
00:28:02.980 --> 00:28:04.950
That's it, end of subject.
00:28:04.950 --> 00:28:06.350
It's February the 14th, so
00:28:06.350 --> 00:28:08.250
send my love to all the
family over there.
00:28:08.250 --> 00:28:11.250
Congratulations on the day of
love and friendship.
00:28:11.250 --> 00:28:13.250
I love you all!
00:28:13.250 --> 00:28:14.970
Party, and even with a duck
00:28:14.970 --> 00:28:16.970
make a soup just as you told me,
00:28:17.580 --> 00:28:19.720
and have a good time,
that's always necessary.
00:28:20.090 --> 00:28:23.420
I haven't killed anything nor anyone
here yet, and I'm happy.
00:28:26.620 --> 00:28:28.770
Then I tell you that
February the 14th
00:28:28.770 --> 00:28:31.070
is the day of love and friendship,
so have a good time.
00:28:31.370 --> 00:28:33.570
Get on top of Humberto, kiss him
if he doesn't get a boner
00:28:33.570 --> 00:28:35.370
and just have a good one.
00:28:35.570 --> 00:28:38.210
Big kiss, my love. I love you.
00:28:40.070 --> 00:28:42.070
I love you, dearly.
00:28:42.070 --> 00:28:43.770
Okay, baby.
00:28:44.370 --> 00:28:45.870
Bye, my love, bye.
00:28:46.370 --> 00:28:47.270
M-hm.
00:28:47.880 --> 00:28:49.670
Okay, bye.
00:29:01.150 --> 00:29:03.250
That's funny.
00:29:59.700 --> 00:30:02.280
Yesterday I returned to my home town
00:30:02.280 --> 00:30:05.120
Somebody told me that you
are already married
00:30:05.580 --> 00:30:08.650
Look at me and tell me if
you have forgotten me.
00:30:08.900 --> 00:30:12.250
I'll leave with my eyes drowned.
00:30:12.550 --> 00:30:14.880
Then I asked the moon
00:30:15.320 --> 00:30:18.120
It turned it's back and tried
to hide from me.
00:30:18.620 --> 00:30:21.320
Even the moon knows that
you loved me.
00:30:21.720 --> 00:30:24.520
Even the moon knows that
I still love you.
00:30:25.350 --> 00:30:26.710
Fly, fly
00:30:26.910 --> 00:30:30.510
in other directions, go and
dream, dream...
00:30:34.220 --> 00:30:36.880
Yesterday I returned to my home town
00:30:36.880 --> 00:30:39.980
Somebody told me that you
are already married.
00:30:39.980 --> 00:30:43.150
Look at me and tell me if
you have forgotten me.
00:30:43.380 --> 00:30:46.320
I'll leave with my eyes drowned.
00:30:49.510 --> 00:30:51.510
I know, but anyway...
00:30:54.510 --> 00:30:55.510
Oh, girl.
00:30:57.320 --> 00:30:58.510
That's why...
00:30:59.550 --> 00:31:02.510
I've already arrived here and at least...
00:31:05.810 --> 00:31:08.910
I'm not the way I want to be,
but I'm better than over there.
00:31:17.650 --> 00:31:20.150
- Tell me.
- Hello?
00:31:21.450 --> 00:31:23.150
Hello, papi, congratulations.
00:31:23.150 --> 00:31:25.150
Thanks, the same to you.
00:31:27.150 --> 00:31:28.580
Everything is fine.
00:31:28.580 --> 00:31:30.580
I thought you were not
going to answer.
00:31:32.580 --> 00:31:35.580
No, I don't know. Last time
you told me to be happy.
00:31:40.780 --> 00:31:42.780
Yes, let's see...
00:31:42.780 --> 00:31:45.180
Is true, I was on a phone call
with you-know-who.
00:31:45.180 --> 00:31:47.180
And you know how it went, right?
00:31:51.150 --> 00:31:53.820
I'm sorry but he infuriated me.
00:31:53.820 --> 00:31:56.320
I felt awful after the phone call
00:31:56.320 --> 00:31:58.320
and I didn't...
00:31:58.320 --> 00:32:00.320
I would have contaminated
you if I called you.
00:32:01.120 --> 00:32:03.320
Because I wasn't...
00:32:03.920 --> 00:32:05.520
I didn't want to spread
00:32:05.710 --> 00:32:07.820
those bad vibes that he left me.
00:32:09.020 --> 00:32:10.410
So...
00:32:10.410 --> 00:32:12.570
Yes, I was disturbed.
00:32:12.570 --> 00:32:14.170
I didn't want to call anyone.
00:32:14.170 --> 00:32:15.970
I preferred to isolate, you know.
00:32:18.170 --> 00:32:19.970
How have you been?
00:32:21.250 --> 00:32:24.320
Somebody told me that you
are already married
00:32:24.520 --> 00:32:27.520
Look at me and tell me if
you have forgotten me.
00:32:27.820 --> 00:32:30.980
I'll leave with my eyes drowned.
00:32:31.380 --> 00:32:33.750
Then I asked the moon
00:32:34.150 --> 00:32:37.050
It turned it's back and tried
to hide from me.
00:32:37.350 --> 00:32:40.250
Even the moon knows that
you loved me.
00:32:40.250 --> 00:32:43.550
Even the moon knows that
I still love you.
00:33:18.850 --> 00:33:20.550
If you want to be the best,
00:33:21.170 --> 00:33:23.550
you have to work harder
than the others.
00:33:25.480 --> 00:33:27.250
Needless to say it,
00:33:27.250 --> 00:33:29.880
the best ones work harder
than the rest.
00:33:29.980 --> 00:33:32.480
They train more, learn more.
00:33:32.580 --> 00:33:34.710
They go through more pain,
00:33:35.110 --> 00:33:37.810
more failures, more noes,
00:33:37.910 --> 00:33:39.810
more rejections.
00:33:40.110 --> 00:33:43.210
If your opponent does ten,
you do eleven.
00:33:43.310 --> 00:33:45.710
If they do eleven, you do twelve.
00:33:45.710 --> 00:33:49.710
And if they do twelve, you'll do
thirteen, fourteen, fifteen...
00:33:49.710 --> 00:33:52.510
You'll do whatever it takes.
00:34:29.620 --> 00:34:31.220
Are you recording me?
00:35:21.020 --> 00:35:23.020
Hello!
00:35:29.480 --> 00:35:32.850
- Hello dear, how are you?
00:35:32.850 --> 00:35:35.250
Hey, at last.
00:35:35.650 --> 00:35:37.750
- When do you arrive?
- Monday.
00:35:38.050 --> 00:35:39.750
Monday?
00:35:39.750 --> 00:35:42.050
How come you're coming back,
00:35:42.720 --> 00:35:44.350
here, to Cuba?
00:35:44.350 --> 00:35:48.950
Yero, the situation in Russia
with the Ukraine affair
00:35:49.250 --> 00:35:52.000
I can't keep waiting for this
to get better. Far from that
00:35:52.000 --> 00:35:54.000
this looks worst every day.
00:35:54.000 --> 00:35:56.600
Tickets have become unaffordable.
00:35:56.790 --> 00:35:59.570
Of course, and what about
daily life?
00:35:59.570 --> 00:36:02.670
- In Moscow?
- Here nothing happens.
00:36:02.670 --> 00:36:04.070
Everything is normal.
00:36:04.070 --> 00:36:05.770
The streets are quiet.
00:36:05.770 --> 00:36:10.570
In the beginning, the youth
demonstrated in the street
00:36:10.570 --> 00:36:13.170
against the thing going on
in Ukraine, and that's it.
00:36:13.620 --> 00:36:15.470
The police kick the shit out them,
00:36:15.470 --> 00:36:17.470
took some prisoners,
and that was finished.
00:36:17.470 --> 00:36:18.970
No more people on the street.
00:36:18.970 --> 00:36:21.270
- Right.
- I went to the Red Square
00:36:21.270 --> 00:36:24.710
on the Liberation Day.
I went there.
00:36:24.710 --> 00:36:27.710
What did you go to, Eldis?
00:36:28.110 --> 00:36:29.810
I'm everywhere, man.
00:36:29.810 --> 00:36:32.610
- Supporting.
- Supporting what the fuck?
00:36:33.180 --> 00:36:36.010
I don't know, but I went there anyway.
00:36:36.010 --> 00:36:39.310
I let off fireworks, I clapped and
sang with all those people.
00:36:39.310 --> 00:36:40.520
A little bit of everything.
00:36:40.520 --> 00:36:42.520
I don't know what
I was doing there.
00:36:42.880 --> 00:36:44.750
Well, it's all in the...
00:36:44.750 --> 00:36:47.950
Who is calling me by video call?
Oh, Frank...
00:36:49.580 --> 00:36:51.650
I'll be with you in a moment,
I have to take this.
00:36:51.650 --> 00:36:54.120
- Okay, bye.
- Bye.
00:37:41.120 --> 00:37:44.050
I feel overwhelmed
because it has been 21 years
00:37:44.050 --> 00:37:47.150
since India won
the Miss Universe crown.
00:37:47.350 --> 00:37:49.980
And it is happening right now.
00:37:50.180 --> 00:37:54.640
I'm grateful to everyone
who supported and believed in me.
00:37:54.640 --> 00:37:58.740
I'm ready to take the
responsibility of the crown now.
00:37:58.940 --> 00:38:03.350
Harnaaz Sandhu has been a regular
face at prestigious beauty pageants,
00:38:03.370 --> 00:38:05.510
of which she has won the most.
00:38:05.710 --> 00:38:08.720
As a model, she's been
an ambassador for major brands.
00:38:09.020 --> 00:38:11.320
As an actress, she has filmed
two movies
00:38:11.320 --> 00:38:14.920
scheduled to premiere in 2022.
00:38:15.750 --> 00:38:16.920
Oh, thanks God.
00:38:17.170 --> 00:38:18.820
and, huh...
00:38:18.820 --> 00:38:21.170
yours was: Serbia,
00:38:21.170 --> 00:38:23.170
Macedonia, Macedonia, Greece.
00:38:23.670 --> 00:38:25.170
No, mine was:
00:38:25.320 --> 00:38:26.670
Serbia, Macedonia...
00:38:26.670 --> 00:38:29.580
In Macedonia we were taken
prisoners in a refuge camp.
00:38:29.680 --> 00:38:31.580
Not a shelter, but a jail.
00:38:31.580 --> 00:38:33.580
Because it was prison, with no food,
00:38:33.580 --> 00:38:35.580
just water.
00:38:35.580 --> 00:38:38.650
We had to pay a fine of 350 Euros.
00:38:38.650 --> 00:38:40.650
The fine was supposedly
00:38:40.750 --> 00:38:42.850
to deport us to Serbia
00:38:42.850 --> 00:38:44.850
to an "office".
00:38:44.850 --> 00:38:48.150
Listen, an "immigration office".
Bullshit.
00:38:48.450 --> 00:38:50.950
We were put into
a Macedonian police van
00:38:50.950 --> 00:38:52.450
When we paid the fine,
00:38:52.450 --> 00:38:55.150
they took us to the Serbian border.
00:38:55.150 --> 00:38:56.050
M-hm.
00:38:56.050 --> 00:38:58.750
They let us loose like dogs
at the border.
00:38:59.050 --> 00:39:03.580
We were 20 in a van with
capacity for eight people.
00:39:03.580 --> 00:39:05.880
Cubans, Afghans, and everyone.
00:39:05.880 --> 00:39:07.880
We were twenty in that van, Eldis.
00:39:07.880 --> 00:39:10.180
- Oh, my God.
- They released us at the border.
00:39:10.520 --> 00:39:12.380
We crossed, then we walked down the street,
00:39:14.880 --> 00:39:17.280
My phone warns that
you have low battery.
00:39:18.480 --> 00:39:20.180
When...
00:39:20.180 --> 00:39:21.980
they left us at the Serbian border,
00:39:21.980 --> 00:39:24.180
the Serbian police
00:39:24.180 --> 00:39:26.180
had to react, because that's
what they are there for.
00:39:26.180 --> 00:39:27.180
M-hm.
00:39:27.380 --> 00:39:29.180
They let loosed the dogs at us.
00:39:29.180 --> 00:39:31.180
"Come back to Macedonia".
We back to Macedonia.
00:39:31.180 --> 00:39:32.980
"Back to Macedonia..."
00:39:32.980 --> 00:39:35.040
We explained and showed
them the tickets
00:39:35.040 --> 00:39:37.540
that we had paid for. No way.
00:39:37.680 --> 00:39:39.900
"Go back!
Back to Macedonia!"
00:39:39.900 --> 00:39:41.400
We went back.
00:39:41.400 --> 00:39:44.000
Luckily enough,
the Macedonian police van
00:39:44.000 --> 00:39:46.000
was still there.
00:39:46.300 --> 00:39:48.200
We told them, and the police man
went over there
00:39:48.200 --> 00:39:52.050
Macedonian and Serbian police
had a little talk.
00:39:52.800 --> 00:39:54.650
They seemed to reached an agreement.
00:39:55.350 --> 00:39:58.310
They put us back in the van.
Guess where they throw us...
00:39:58.510 --> 00:39:59.310
Hm.
00:40:00.080 --> 00:40:01.710
At the Kosovo border.
00:40:03.910 --> 00:40:07.110
They said, neither for you
nor for me, to Kosovo!
00:40:29.110 --> 00:40:31.110
First of all, don't make plans.
00:40:31.110 --> 00:40:32.910
I ask you from the bottom
of my heart
00:40:32.910 --> 00:40:35.110
don't make plans for the next days.
00:40:35.210 --> 00:40:36.910
It's time to make money.
00:40:36.910 --> 00:40:38.310
A lot.
00:40:38.310 --> 00:40:40.310
Plenty, a lot.
00:40:40.710 --> 00:40:42.310
So...
00:40:42.880 --> 00:40:44.710
Our job is to sell,
00:40:45.010 --> 00:40:46.710
and convince.
00:40:46.970 --> 00:40:49.010
Okay, so kids,
00:40:49.010 --> 00:40:51.850
good luck, have a good shift.
00:40:51.850 --> 00:40:53.150
Cheer up.
00:40:53.150 --> 00:40:55.650
And make some money,
that's what it takes
00:40:57.980 --> 00:40:59.980
Here it is 5:00 pm.
00:41:03.980 --> 00:41:06.480
In two hours...
00:41:10.980 --> 00:41:12.250
What time is it in Moscow?
00:41:12.250 --> 00:41:14.650
I guess Moscow has
the same time difference as me.
00:41:15.890 --> 00:41:18.550
I think we are at the same time.
00:41:23.550 --> 00:41:25.780
Well, my people,
big kiss to everyone.
00:41:26.850 --> 00:41:29.480
We'll meet again for a Live
in two hours.
00:41:29.480 --> 00:41:31.480
We'll play challenges.
00:41:33.880 --> 00:41:35.880
Don't miss out!
00:41:36.520 --> 00:41:38.080
Yes, it is 7:35 pm.
00:41:38.080 --> 00:41:39.780
Don't miss out!
00:42:00.170 --> 00:42:02.180
Speak, papi. What's up?
00:42:03.080 --> 00:42:06.060
How is everything going?
00:43:11.520 --> 00:43:15.720
Hello, dear Daryl, how are you?
00:43:16.320 --> 00:43:19.820
It's been a month since we talked,
I wanted to know about you.
00:43:20.820 --> 00:43:24.020
I'm still editing our movie.
00:43:28.920 --> 00:43:33.820
Hey, everything okay?
00:43:38.320 --> 00:43:43.720
I'm in Cuba.
00:43:46.820 --> 00:43:50.220
Daryl, what a surprise!
00:43:50.220 --> 00:43:52.750
I'd love to see you!
00:43:52.950 --> 00:43:55.680
What is your number here?
00:43:57.780 --> 00:43:59.020
Good afternoon, Yero.
00:43:59.020 --> 00:44:03.580
I'm here with my family and
boyfriend, thanks God.
00:44:04.580 --> 00:44:06.980
Write me in here.
00:44:07.000 --> 00:44:10.580
I don't have Cuban number yet.
00:44:22.350 --> 00:44:25.580
Go easy man,
it's a little complicated.
00:44:25.580 --> 00:44:29.150
Everything is on fire
right now, go figure.
00:44:29.150 --> 00:44:32.150
He is afraid of the
00:44:32.150 --> 00:44:34.150
rumors that...
00:44:34.150 --> 00:44:36.550
about Russia and Ukraine.
00:44:38.500 --> 00:44:39.450
Yes.
00:44:39.450 --> 00:44:41.450
So he says...
00:44:41.450 --> 00:44:45.450
He's afraid to come and
00:44:45.450 --> 00:44:48.050
that they start shooting...
00:44:48.050 --> 00:44:50.650
and war breaks in Russia.
So I said, "Yes sure".
00:44:52.920 --> 00:44:54.250
No, no...
00:44:54.250 --> 00:44:56.680
What a mess it has unfold...
00:44:56.680 --> 00:44:58.280
- That's nonsense.
- He has...
00:44:58.280 --> 00:45:01.280
Well, he is very afraid.
00:45:01.280 --> 00:45:04.880
"Take care of yourself over there",
and I-don't-know-what-else.
00:45:04.880 --> 00:45:06.880
"Don't go out to the street too much..."
00:45:07.210 --> 00:45:09.680
Ernesto, come on...
00:45:09.950 --> 00:45:13.580
If I go from home to work, and back
from work to home.
00:45:13.880 --> 00:45:15.780
"Just in case something happens."
00:45:15.780 --> 00:45:17.250
"Don't let them catch you."
00:45:17.250 --> 00:45:19.450
Ernesto, are you for real?
00:45:20.150 --> 00:45:23.050
- I said that to him.
- No, what the fuck.
00:45:23.050 --> 00:45:25.870
"You don't watch the
news?", No, I don't.
00:45:25.920 --> 00:45:28.420
"There is a huge mess going on!"
00:45:28.420 --> 00:45:31.020
That if this someone has an
I-don't know-what
00:45:31.020 --> 00:45:33.020
pointing to who knows where...
No, no.
00:45:33.320 --> 00:45:35.020
I said "Okay, you're right."
00:45:35.020 --> 00:45:37.020
"Do whatever you like."
00:45:37.020 --> 00:45:39.020
Anyway...
00:45:39.020 --> 00:45:40.250
I also wanted to ask you...
00:45:43.020 --> 00:45:44.920
- Good night.
00:45:45.750 --> 00:45:48.450
- See you later.
00:45:51.580 --> 00:45:53.980
- Good bye.
00:45:56.320 --> 00:46:00.050
- Do you speak any language?
00:46:00.250 --> 00:46:02.050
- English.
00:46:02.650 --> 00:46:04.650
- Japanese.
00:46:04.950 --> 00:46:07.250
- French.
00:46:07.580 --> 00:46:09.850
- Spanish.
00:46:10.380 --> 00:46:12.380
- German.
00:46:12.780 --> 00:46:15.280
- Italian.
00:46:15.480 --> 00:46:17.280
- Arabic.
00:46:18.050 --> 00:46:20.280
- Chinese.
00:46:20.520 --> 00:46:22.280
- Swedish.
00:46:23.120 --> 00:46:24.780
- Russian.
00:46:32.480 --> 00:46:33.580
Hello, good morning.
00:46:33.580 --> 00:46:35.580
Am I speaking to Mr. Johnny?
00:46:36.780 --> 00:46:38.580
Escamilla, is that you?
00:46:39.380 --> 00:46:40.780
Pleased to meet you,
my name is Daniel.
00:46:40.780 --> 00:46:43.180
I'm a specialist of
the product "El Patron".
00:46:43.180 --> 00:46:45.980
I'm calling to confirm a request
made on our website.
00:46:45.980 --> 00:46:47.980
Is this correct?
00:46:51.880 --> 00:46:53.680
You didn't apply to it?
00:46:54.120 --> 00:46:55.680
You did, but it wasn't for you.
00:46:56.780 --> 00:46:57.880
Your friend...
00:46:58.580 --> 00:47:00.180
Is your friend nearby?
00:47:03.180 --> 00:47:05.180
Do you know how long
it will take him?
00:47:08.280 --> 00:47:10.280
So he left Bogota.
00:47:14.210 --> 00:47:15.610
I understand.
00:47:17.520 --> 00:47:20.510
It was four years with you
at the Polytechnic.
00:47:22.150 --> 00:47:24.910
Doing your exams and everything!
00:47:25.910 --> 00:47:27.310
Oh, listen to him...
00:47:28.720 --> 00:47:30.310
- You know it's true.
- I studied...
00:47:30.310 --> 00:47:32.310
I studied the day before the exam.
00:47:32.310 --> 00:47:34.310
Yean, yeah, you studied,
and in the middle of
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the exam, Juan Carlos...
00:47:36.810 --> 00:47:38.610
The results to anybody.
00:47:44.670 --> 00:47:46.950
Those crazy times...
00:47:46.950 --> 00:47:49.950
Yes, those were really good times.
00:47:49.950 --> 00:47:52.650
That was the best time
of our lives, Jeisy.
00:47:53.450 --> 00:47:54.650
Oh, yes, that's right.
00:48:57.760 --> 00:48:58.920
That's luck.
00:48:58.920 --> 00:49:01.320
I don't have to be wondering
around, nor taking...
00:49:01.520 --> 00:49:03.710
- You have to buy a car.
- Yeah.
00:49:03.710 --> 00:49:05.710
Well now...
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Early next year.
00:49:09.210 --> 00:49:10.910
Yes, sure.
00:49:10.910 --> 00:49:12.720
Ernesto says to me:
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"If I go
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and you become illegal,
00:49:17.620 --> 00:49:21.120
and you have to go to Serbia,
let me know
00:49:21.120 --> 00:49:22.620
so I can help you.
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I'll pay your ticket."
00:49:24.410 --> 00:49:25.910
Look.
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As of now, I'm not planing
to jump over there, okay?
00:49:29.810 --> 00:49:33.450
Also if you come
and I'm illegal, that's okay.
00:49:33.650 --> 00:49:35.750
We'll go out to the street
and walk...
00:49:35.750 --> 00:49:37.850
"Oh, okay, just don't get
into trouble."
00:49:37.850 --> 00:49:39.850
As long as the police don't stop me...
00:49:41.510 --> 00:49:42.550
Yeah.
00:49:42.550 --> 00:49:43.550
So...
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Unless the police stop me.
00:49:45.150 --> 00:49:47.710
If the police stop me,
00:49:48.810 --> 00:49:49.710
well...
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I have to have money.
00:49:52.810 --> 00:49:55.310
7, 10, or 12 thousand rubles.
00:49:55.620 --> 00:49:58.620
You pay or transfer to them,
and just keep walking.
00:49:58.620 --> 00:50:01.120
In the end, they are more corrupt
than those in Havana.
00:50:03.320 --> 00:50:04.620
That's how it is.
00:50:04.620 --> 00:50:05.920
And that's it.
00:50:06.220 --> 00:50:07.920
Or they take you to the police station,
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and you give the money,
if you don't have it with you.
00:50:11.880 --> 00:50:14.120
They take you there and wait
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for someone to transfer the money,
and then they let you loose.
00:50:16.400 --> 00:50:19.720
They don't fine you, nor give
you a receipt. Nothing.
00:50:21.720 --> 00:50:23.720
- No, no.
- Drop the money and that's all.
00:50:23.720 --> 00:50:25.420
Yeah, drop the money and that's all.
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Just walk.
00:50:27.620 --> 00:50:30.220
- Just so you know.
- That's their business.
00:50:30.220 --> 00:50:32.420
Yeah, exactly.
00:50:32.620 --> 00:50:34.420
That's business for them.
00:50:34.420 --> 00:50:36.120
Well, man.
00:50:36.120 --> 00:50:38.620
So far, they haven't stopped me.
00:50:38.620 --> 00:50:40.220
I have not been stopped
00:50:40.220 --> 00:50:42.220
and I don't intend that to happen.
00:50:43.150 --> 00:50:44.320
It's just luck.
00:51:18.020 --> 00:51:19.920
I know you're telling
to your friends
00:51:19.920 --> 00:51:22.220
That you don't care for me anymore.
00:51:24.920 --> 00:51:26.920
That time you spent with me
00:51:26.920 --> 00:51:30.520
Is a concluded chapter
without a happy end.
00:51:32.420 --> 00:51:35.020
I know that woman whom you give
00:51:35.020 --> 00:51:37.820
What you never wanted to give me.
00:51:39.620 --> 00:51:42.820
She dares to say that
I have no dignity
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And she pities me.
00:52:50.800 --> 00:52:52.700
Hey, finally, how are you?
00:52:53.900 --> 00:52:55.900
Did you just get off work now?
00:52:56.390 --> 00:52:59.530
I had such a headache that
I had to lie down for a while.
00:52:59.530 --> 00:53:01.530
And how does that make you feel?
00:53:01.860 --> 00:53:03.530
Nothing anymore, Yero.
00:53:03.530 --> 00:53:05.330
I'm not even excited anymore.
00:53:05.330 --> 00:53:06.760
I have anesthesia in my blood.
00:53:06.760 --> 00:53:08.360
I was working in the call center
00:53:08.360 --> 00:53:10.360
but then there was a problem
with the payments
00:53:11.700 --> 00:53:15.660
due to the mess of the war
it was very difficult.
00:53:16.360 --> 00:53:18.060
Salary was delayed by a week.
00:53:18.060 --> 00:53:19.500
You didn't get the money.
00:53:19.500 --> 00:53:22.500
You worked and practically
did not see the salary.
00:53:22.500 --> 00:53:24.550
- Right.
- So if they didn't give you the salary,
00:53:24.690 --> 00:53:26.650
you didn't have enough to live.
00:53:26.650 --> 00:53:29.550
The only thing that...
00:53:29.990 --> 00:53:32.150
comes now are those jobs
removing snow.
00:53:32.150 --> 00:53:34.150
But those are heavy.
00:53:34.150 --> 00:53:35.750
It is very cold.
00:53:35.850 --> 00:53:37.750
But at least it's something.
00:53:38.150 --> 00:53:40.750
Since the war, Tik Tok
has been unavailable.
00:53:41.150 --> 00:53:42.650
Never more.
00:53:42.650 --> 00:53:44.750
Then Russia looks like Cuba.
00:53:45.000 --> 00:53:46.050
That's right.
00:53:46.700 --> 00:53:48.850
The problem is that
everything here is weird.
00:53:49.450 --> 00:53:50.850
You no longer return to Moscow?
00:53:50.850 --> 00:53:52.250
I don't think so.
00:53:52.250 --> 00:53:54.250
We have to meet again
00:53:54.250 --> 00:53:56.650
I'm sure we'll see each other again.
00:53:57.750 --> 00:54:00.860
Having wine...
00:54:01.160 --> 00:54:02.860
Thank you and don't stop
writing to me.
00:54:03.400 --> 00:54:04.860
Big kiss, take care.
00:54:05.860 --> 00:54:06.860
Big kiss.
00:55:59.500 --> 00:56:01.930
- Who is this?
- Hi, Sergei, good morning.
00:56:01.930 --> 00:56:03.530
We are here at the apartment
00:56:03.530 --> 00:56:05.530
ready to give you the key.
00:56:09.760 --> 00:56:11.960
Can I talk with your daughter?
00:56:11.960 --> 00:56:14.460
No, understand...
00:56:14.460 --> 00:56:16.460
Yeah, yes...
00:56:21.200 --> 00:56:24.400
- Twelve, out.
- Okay, twelve, out.
00:56:25.260 --> 00:56:28.100
We see you here to give you the key.
00:56:29.330 --> 00:56:31.900
Okay, thank you, good bye.
00:57:42.200 --> 00:57:44.330
Can you hear me? What's up!
00:57:44.330 --> 00:57:47.600
Would you have liked
to stay in Russia?
00:57:48.400 --> 00:57:50.200
Yes, of course.
00:57:50.460 --> 00:57:53.350
But it wasn't possible
00:57:53.400 --> 00:57:56.900
because there were many things
that didn't allow me to keep on.
00:57:57.730 --> 00:58:00.330
The main thing was to be
so far from my family.
00:58:00.930 --> 00:58:03.330
I couldn't stay like that
any longer.
00:58:05.230 --> 00:58:07.330
It was time to go back.
00:58:07.660 --> 00:58:11.330
Yes, of course.
I've always loved to travel.
00:58:11.330 --> 00:58:13.230
I've always loved to travel.
00:58:13.230 --> 00:58:15.430
Go out to know places
and come back
00:58:15.430 --> 00:58:17.530
to tell everything what I've seen,
show the videos
00:58:17.530 --> 00:58:19.530
and stuff so they'll
somehow know it too.
00:58:19.730 --> 00:58:21.930
I always liked that,
I can't lie.
00:58:22.860 --> 00:58:23.930
You get it?
00:58:39.030 --> 00:58:41.060
Yes, you have to be locked in.
00:58:41.960 --> 00:58:43.900
I guess the only viable option is
00:58:43.900 --> 00:58:45.900
to go to Cuba, but there
everything is bad.
00:58:46.530 --> 00:58:49.530
Before, Moscow used to dazzle me.
00:58:49.530 --> 00:58:53.230
I had so many things to do
and places to visit.
00:58:53.530 --> 00:58:56.030
Now I don't even want
to leave the house.
00:58:56.230 --> 00:58:58.030
Everything changed.
00:58:58.230 --> 00:59:00.030
But I'm calm.
00:59:00.530 --> 00:59:02.830
You can't be spending
all the money either.
00:59:02.830 --> 00:59:04.830
You save it for the rent and food.
00:59:05.760 --> 00:59:08.990
All airports are closed,
the only option is Cuba.
00:59:08.990 --> 00:59:10.990
Cuba and Russia, as they say...
00:59:12.330 --> 00:59:15.000
...Cuba is the Russian's Hawaii.
00:59:26.670 --> 00:59:28.720
Where do you want your house to be?
00:59:28.720 --> 00:59:31.820
Here it wouldn't be that bad, but...
00:59:33.320 --> 00:59:35.820
...unfortunately, one already
has a culture
00:59:35.820 --> 00:59:38.220
and a religion that
00:59:38.750 --> 00:59:41.220
in the end ties you to your roots.
00:59:41.220 --> 00:59:43.220
You can't deny nor
00:59:43.220 --> 00:59:47.220
refuse to your origins, so...
00:59:47.620 --> 00:59:50.520
Wherever you are, that's always by
00:59:50.520 --> 00:59:52.920
the work and grace of God.
00:59:54.720 --> 00:59:56.920
If it is written in destiny
00:59:57.220 --> 00:59:58.720
to be here, I'll be here.
00:59:58.720 --> 01:00:00.920
If it is written to be in Cuba,
I'll be in Cuba.
01:00:00.920 --> 01:00:03.120
If it is written that I be
buried underground
01:00:03.120 --> 01:00:04.570
tomorrow...
01:00:04.570 --> 01:00:05.920
That's what you get.
01:00:05.920 --> 01:00:08.120
Where do you think that home is?
01:00:10.120 --> 01:00:13.120
I can't tell right now, to be honest.
01:00:13.520 --> 01:00:15.620
Is that something
you are interested in?
01:00:17.620 --> 01:00:21.420
Yes, maybe, but...
01:00:21.420 --> 01:00:24.720
This question right now...
01:00:26.020 --> 01:00:28.950
...is uncomfortable to answer.
01:00:31.630 --> 01:00:32.990
Is just to wait.
01:00:32.990 --> 01:00:35.990
Life is all about patience and calm.
01:00:36.360 --> 01:00:38.320
Not about speed.
01:00:38.320 --> 01:00:39.820
So...
01:00:40.330 --> 01:00:42.520
Everything is step by step.
01:00:42.520 --> 01:00:45.020
Everything arrives at the precise
moment as it is necessary.
01:00:47.230 --> 01:00:49.120
What can I say?
01:00:52.050 --> 01:00:54.000
I'm waiting.
01:01:26.020 --> 01:01:30.000
Dear Daryl, how is everything?
01:01:30.980 --> 01:01:35.220
Do you already have
a Cuban number?
01:01:36.220 --> 01:01:42.420
I was thinking of going to Havana
this weekend to see you.
01:01:48.160 --> 01:01:55.120
Hi, are you getting my messages?
Distributor: Pragda Films
Length: 66 minutes
Date: 2023
Genre: Expository
Language: Spanish; English; Russian
Grade: Adult, College, High School
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