Film

Ava & Gabriel: A Love Story

A classic story about forbidden love.

5.6

1h 40m

1990

“A classic story about forbidden love.”

Synopsis

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