Ava & Gabriel: A Love Story

A classic story about forbidden love.

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

Director

Felix de Rooy

Writers

Norman de Palm, Felix de Rooy

Released

November 9, 1990

Language

Dutch