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
- Year: 1990
- Country: France, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles
- Genre: Drama
- Studio: Cosmic Illusion Productions
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- Director: Felix de Rooy
- Cast: Nashaira Desbarida, Cliff San-A-Jong, Theu Boermans, Carol Brown Winkel, Dolf de Vries, Geert de Jong