“World-shaking” events and processes – but where is the human face? The personal story in contrary concentrates on that face in order to expose the potent forces that drive our small lives and even the lives of the heroic. The art of the maker moves us between these two poles compelling our attention, making us think... allowing us to understand. VIDALIA MC CLOUD, a young single Black mother, scratches out a living and fights for her three sons – a family rich in love but poor in everything else. This moving story turns a mountain of statistics into a human experience. A bullet in the head killed Annie May, brave-hearted defender of human rights – so an investigation reveals. A political murder? The question is never answered, but the desperate situation of the native American ins brought into passionate focus. The hero in knickers: Che Guevara seen as only his father could see him. The father, at 84, in Havana, large enough to fill the screen, talking about the Son, the relationship, the letters from prison to the bewildered parents.
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