Rina Penso

A man goes out to battle a monster that has plagued his village for centuries. Heart of a Monster was filmed in Curaçao with the students of the Instituto Buena Bista.

Set in Curacao in the 1940s, Ava & Gabriel: A Love Story tells of the painter Gabriel Goedbloed, who arrives from Holland to paint a mural of the Virgin Mary in a local church. Gabriel is black, originally from Surinam. The colonial Antillian society proves less than tolerant towards him, especially after he chooses as his model a young Black teacher, Ava