Ava & Gabriel: A Love Story (1990)

16 (NL) | Netherlands, France, Netherlands Antilles | Dutch, Papiamento | 100 min

Directed by: Felix de Rooy

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.