Sergio Giral

Sergio Giral was born in Havana on 2 January 1937 and grew up in New York, where he began as a painter. Having returned to Cuba in 1959, he joined the Cuban film institute at the invitation of the cinematographer Néstor Almendros, learned the trade there in short films and documentaries, then devoted a trilogy of feature films to slavery, with Rancheador and Maluala, before Plácido in 1986. He settled in Miami in the early nineties and still made Dos veces Ana in 2010. He died on 12 March 2024 in Bay Harbor Island, Florida.

In the catalogue 1

• Feature filmThe Other FranciscoEl otro FranciscoSergio Giral · 1975Cinema