Ana Victoria Pérez
Directing
Biography
Ana Victoria "Bebé" Pérez is a Cuban director and actress, based in Valencia, Spain since 2005. She trained as an actress in Havana where she acted in TV shows and on stage from the age of 16. After a season in Berlin and Madrid, she visited Valencia in 2005 to shoot a small role in the film "Agua con sal" by Pedro Pérez Rosado, which led her to make the decision to settle in Valencia and embark upon a career as a director. "Ánima" (2011), her longest-running short film, stars Ana de Armas and currently has almost one million views online.
Known For
Three characters in present-day Havana must choose between clinging to their self-restricting beliefs, or getting rid of them to live more freely. Ballerina Mariana has promised God celibacy if she gets the role of "Giselle"; Social-worker Julia always faints after hearing a certain word; and pot-smoking percussionist Elpidio was abandoned by his mother, coincidentally named Cuba, some time ago and has not yet gotten over the loss.
Life Is to Whistle
Julieta takes her cello to a luthier's workshop, and as she observes the hypnotic movements of his hands on the damaged instruments, she realises that her soul too yearns to be healed.
Ánima
A young Cuban named Olga arrives in Spain with a scholarship convinced that she has landed the chance of a lifetime. Deciding to stay, she eventually becomes an illegal immigrant, suffering the brunt of marginalization and, unable to return home, having to get by as she can. Mari Jo is a young girl from a poor Valencian suburb, born into a family with nothing but problems. Fate has marked her life as she too becomes an outcast. Both end up working illegally in a furniture factory where they earn three times less than the minimum legal salary.
Salted Water
On October 29, 2024, heavy rains caused catastrophic flooding in Valencia.
Volver a pasar
Bebé returns to Havana after 10 years away. During that time, he saw the city depicted in a reel, a social media post, a video by influencers. This film is the unvarnished portrait that revealed itself to him upon his return.