Address: Fabien Pisani
Script: Fabien Pisani
Production: Laura Imperiale, Carlos Sosa and Fabien Pisani
Photography: Ernesto Pardo and Fabien Pisani
Assembly: Clementina Mantellini and Armando Croda
Original music: Yayo González
Sound: Alvaro Silva Wuth and Irina Carballosa
Countries: Mexico, Spain and the United States
Year: 2025
Duration: 106 minutes
Gender: Biographical and musical documentation
Language: Spanish
Synopsis: FOR VIVIR is a cinematographic exploration of a powerful moment in time, when music and history intertwined to echo the hopes and struggles of a generation.
Through the life and songs of Pablo Milanés, the film brings a journey deeply personal, but of universal resonance, through political agitation, the victories achieved with effort and the heartbreaking setbacks. His history becomes a reflection of a generation that dared to dream of changing the world.
More than a biographical portrait, TO LIVE is an intimate dialogue between a father and his son, marked by love, legacy and the search for meaning. As the son enters his father's past, he begins to discover not only the values that shaped Paul's life, but also the roots of his own identity.
A history of art, resistance and intergenerational connection, FOR VIVIR is at the same time a tribute and an adjustment of accounts with the past, with the memory and the enduring power of music.
Miguel Núñez (Havana, 1964) is a pianist, composer, arranger and great publicist, teacher and promoter of Cuban music throughout the world. In addition to his compositions and performances around the world where he merged classical music, jazz and Cuban and Latin music he is well known for having been the musical director, pianist and arranger of Pablo Milanés from 1987 to the death of the Cuban singer. With Paul, his last and most celebrated joint work was "Flowers of another world." Today, like two other great geniuses of the Cuban piano, Bebo and Chucho Valdés, they did before him, they live in a village in the province of Málaga.
Héctor Márquez de la Plaza (Paris, 1963) is a journalist, writer, communicator and cultural manager of the country, with four decades dedicated to the criticism and dissemination of cinema, art, theatre, music and literature. He has been a writer, critic and columnist in media such as El País (for a decade), Diario 16, Diario SUR, Canal Sur, Rolling Stone and Art and Part. Formed in Hispanic Philology and Dramatic Art, he was also actor and theatrical director and starred in the time escape, the first children's musical series of Canal Sur.
He has also collaborated with publications such as Babelia, Litoral, Mercury, Peripheries and Cñamo, and is the author of books of literary journalism such as Routas and Atajos. For 18 years he was head of the press at the College of Architects of Malaga, for which he made more than 150 fanzines on his exhibitions. Throughout his career he has signed over 10,000 news pieces.
As a programmer and manager, he has created numerous cycles for Andalusian theatres and cultural centres, including La Thermica (2016-2023). The music is a pioneering cycle that brought together more than 200 musicians and 120,000 spectators between 2000 and 2011, and El Tercer Piso, a literary outreach project for the Protestant Library with more than 350 activities and 20,000 attendees in three years.
He was a writer for six years of the Galas of the Málaga Festival and a co-writer of the documentary of TVE Imexpendable dedicated to Chiquito de la Calzada, awarded an Ondas Award. He also organized # Todoscondeo at the Cervantes Theatre, bringing together more than 65 musicians, and for five years he was an adviser, coordinator and presenter of The Welfare and Music of the SER Chain.
In the environmental and social field, Aula Savia is active, focusing on ethnobotany, psychodelia, ecology and natural health. In 2026 he curated The forest at the end of the times for the Andaluz de las Letras Center and collaborated with the Benalmádena Film Festival (FICCAB). He has also promoted a lookout and cineclub in La Cala del Moral in memory of the filmmaker Concha Barquero and recovers La Música Contada ®, with the sponsorship of the Unicaja Foundation, in six Andalusian cities.
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