From film screenings to a dive into Cuban music

The 28th edition of the Saint-Barth Film Festival concluded on Saturday, May 3, with the screening of the film "Adios Buenos Aires" on the Ajoe plateau in Lorient. The festival once again allowed the island's audience to discover different worlds through the works of guest artists. From Suriname, with Tessa Leuwsha's "Mama Sranan," to colonial Algeria with Jean-Claude Barny's "Fanon," profound, personal, and historical subjects were explored over the course of ten days. But the organizers are consistent in their ideas and have artists who are loyal to them. William Sabourin O'Reilly, whose film "Lazaro and the Shark: Cuba Under the Surface" was presented at the festival last year, returned for this edition with the film's protagonist, Lazaro Bandera, and his compatriots Sisi Caridad, Yelecda Montalvo, and Alexis Sabourin O'Reilly. Since Monday, the small delegation has been visiting the island's middle and elementary school students to share the richness of Cuban culture and music. These encounters, it goes without saying, delight the children and adolescents of Saint Barthélemy.