Yamel, a Mexican cinema student in Cuba, is randomly filming a stormy afternoon in Havana when Jans, an 18-year-old fisherman, walks across her frame and captures her attention.

Curator's Note

“I liked the way he looked at me,” she confides at the beginning of her film. It is that gaze that would become, years later, the true subject of this documentary—beyond the country, the sea, the fishing boats, the love story, or even Jans himself. Back then, like the rest of the world, Yamel had no way of knowing that the #MeToo movement was about to shake the foundations of the cinema industry, or that ideas such as consent, objectification, and “gaze” would go on to reshape how we represent others—and how we love. - Anne Delseth

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