For seven years, award-winning Chinese-American filmmaker Nanfu Wang followed Rosa Maria Paya, daughter of the five time | dG1fbHoya1JpblFWODA
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00:00This is a story about Cuba and a young woman named Rosa Maria Paya.
00:18The Cuban people, they are demanding the end of the dictatorship.
00:23In China, I started to wonder how people living under authoritarianism could fight for change.
00:29Our experiences seem to reflect each other.
00:33Rosa is the daughter of the most accomplished democracy advocate in Cuban history.
00:53In spite of the danger, Rosa continued her father's work.
00:58I want a nation which wishes our leaders.
01:01I want a democratic Cuba.
01:03I had followed her from the streets of Havana to rallies and conferences across the world,
01:08to the halls of power in Washington.
01:10Please, listen to Cuban people.
01:13Do not politicize that.
01:16It felt just as easy for me to imagine Cuba and China becoming free
01:20as it was to imagine America sliding into autocracy.
01:25Did you feel discouraged?
01:26I feel the opposite.
01:28If we stop, then they already won.
01:46Sometimes I feel that this fight has been too long.
01:50But as my father said, the night will not be eternal.
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