10th edition CIFF – 10-14 April 2024

Un dia kada momentu (One Day at a Time) (2017 Feature Film)

Marisol Gómez Mouakad | Puerto Rico, Mexico | 2016 | color | DCP | 90 min | Spanish, English | e.s.

Portrait of the engaging Curaçao yoga master Leo Floridas. When he is introduced to yoga in the 1960s, he discovers that he is more than his blackness and becomes a yoga teacher and health activist in his local island community.

Place: CINEMA 4

Date: 8 April 2017

Time: 15:30

Duration: 0:37

Year in
Festival

2017

Director

Gabri Christa

Camera

Hester Jonkhout

Country

Curaçao

Editor

Hester Jonkhout

Language

Papiamentu
English

Length

28 min

Music

Fernon Reid

Producer

Gabri Christa
Hester Jonkhout

Production Company

Danzaisa
Camrock

Sound Design

Dave Mourillon

Year of Production

2016

Gabri CHRISTA (Curaçao) came to filmmaking after a successful career as a dancer and choreographer with companies such as Danza Contemporanea de Cuba and the Bill T. Jones /Arnie Zane Dance Company. Awards she has received include the Guggenheim Fellowship for Choreography and the ABC Television Award for Creative Excellence for her short film High School (2002). Her short documentary Un dia kada momentu/One Day at a Time (2016) won the award for best film at both the Harlem International Film Festival and the Canadian Diversity Film Festival.

 

Filmography

High School (2002, short), Ringshout (2002, short), Domino (2003, short), Quarantine (2007, short), (2008, short), Salon Day (2010, short), Kasita (2014, short), Un dia kada momentu/One Day at a Time (2016, short doc)