The Land of the Whale

For filmmaker Armando Capó, the southeastern Cuban town of Gibara is a place of ghosts, haunted by his lost youth, a bustling past that cannot be recovered and the skeleton of a whale. Capó left Gibara for Havana as a young man, realizing he had no future there as a filmmaker. THE LAND OF THE WHALE chronicles his early pandemic return, a trip he makes in part to reconnect with three of his former teachers nearing the end of their lives. THE LAND OF THE WHALE is a beautiful meditation on craft, beauty, aging, the transmission of knowledge, and what it means to be an artist.