Blanca Rosa Blanco premiered her documentary “Retorno” in Morocco

Cuban actressWhite Pink White premiered in the12th International Film and Common Memory Festival in Nador, Morocco, his documentary “Return”, audiovisual with which she is baptized as a director.

Exhibited within the documentary section of this Moroccan competition, “Retorno” explores the connection of the Los Indianos carnival festival with the diaspora of the inhabitants of La Palma to Cuba that occurred from the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century.

The actress, who is also the scriptwriter and director of the 52-minute audiovisual, said she felt very excited about her participation in the festival with a work that "has to do with emigration, which has to do with return."

“I would love to share this experience with you, to be able to see you in the cinema and exchange with other filmmakers,” Blanco wrote from his social networks as an invitation to a work where several protagonists of the carnival are interviewed, such as Manuel Cabrera, whose family was the cause of exhibiting in the carnivals of the 60s white costumes of the Canarians returned to the island and known as “Indianos”.

Currently, the Los Indianos Carnival has become a cultural and tourist phenomenon that brings together up to 80,000 participants in Santa Cruz de La Palma.

“This peculiar carnival caught the attention of Blanca Rosa, who traveled to the islands of Tenerife and La Palma in 2019 to film it with an exhaustive prior research study in Cuba,” they explain fromMelilla Association for UNESCO.

The soundtrack highlights the design ofOsmany Olivare with music fromReinaldo Sanler. The Cuban singer-songwriter also participatesLiuba Maria Hevia, which gives voice to the main theme of the documentary.

“Retorno” premiered in Cuba last February at the Chaplin cinema in Havana. It was also exhibited in Sancti Spíritus, Camagüey and Ciego de Ávila, according to the Cuban Television News, which celebrated the “deep investigation” work of the actress.

According to the state media, “Retorno” confirms that “phenomena such as emigration are the same as always. And its joys, pains and marks are the same in any century”, a very widespread thesis among the Cuban ruling party.