Acting
Cuba, summer of 1994. In the midst of período especial, one of the greatest crises in the country’s history, thousands of Cuban rafters try to reach the United States illegally, never sure if they’ll make it out alive. With holidays starting, Carlos plunges into a carefree August, wandering around with his friends and falling in love for the first time. Little does he know about the country’s uncertain future, and in this hot summer, the world of Carlos will turn upside down.
As the men, women, couples etc. Go through their fantasies they find themselves in all sorts of strange and interesting situations as their games don't tend to go exactly as planned!!
It's an open wound. With Estrés, Marilyn Solaya doesn't seek to tell stories: she exposes them, shakes them up, leaves them unanesthetized. In six intertwined stories, the director turns everyday life into an emotional battlefield, where poverty, love, illness, and dignity clash relentlessly.
Detective Patricia receives news of the death of Mariano, a man who she believes had been wrongfully accused in the past.
'Sin Alas' follows the tumultuous life and love of Cuban writer Luis Vargas as he chooses the excitement and possibilities of the revolution over the wealth of his dysfunctional family. His passion for a beautiful young ballerina, married to an important military leader, sends both of their lives spinning out of control. Luis must make his way through warren of Centro Havana, a city held hostage in time by an ideology, on a journey to come to terms with lost love and the mistakes of his youth.
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Two pensioners, a video camera and an indecent proposal.
An anthology film presenting the stories of five different women who struggle for identity and self-esteem in their love relationships. A bittersweet image of Cuban reality.
In 1920s Havana, Rachel is a showgirl who longs to become a headliner at the incredibly popular Alhambra theater. On her way to attain that, she loses the love of her life and falls into the clutches of a passion that nearly destroys her career.
A mother struggles to hold her family together after her son succumbs to a disease that leaves him disabled.
The life of a Cuban worker is confronted when his mother, who flew to Miami abandoning him when he was an adolescent, announces her arrival and intention to stay with him, in her old apartment in La Habana.
After a restless night he is awoken by his doorbell insistently ringing. Through the peephole, he sees a stranger. He doesn't know why that man is there but is immediately certain of one thing: he represents a terrible threat. He quickly dresses and manages to sneak away, no doubt in his mind that the stranger is pursuing him, and that the nightmare has only just begun.
Tony is a Cuban-American Metals trader. One sunny morning, while fishing off Key West-Florida, he finds the wreck of a makeshift raft floating close to the beach. The rafters names were carved on the wood of the boat (Pablo and Mariana). Tony travels to Cuba to find the Family of the rafters to tell them what he had found. This journey also becomes a discovery of his own Cuban roots. Tony finds the family and, shocked and surprised, finds the beautiful Mariana whom he presumed had died at sea, and she awakens in him his true destiny.
It has been four years since Raulito had to go into exile in Miami. He lives abroad and the family decides to send him a video letter for his birthday, in which everyone appears. The same old gossip is told, the same jokes are made, the usual sentimentality simulates an apparently harmonious and tolerant family until the sister decides to reveal a secret very well kept until then: the brother who lives abroad is gay. The stability of the family collapses and in the midst of the chaos the real conflicts appear.
The triumph of a young man in an important erotic literature contest reaches the ears of his grandmother.
A widower is surprised to learn that his late wife lead a double life.
In 1672 Cuban revolutionaries launch an uprising against the Spanish who are occupying the country. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2017.
A choral story where characters of different statuses and generations cross paths in an attempt to find happiness and alleviate the loneliness that crushes some of them. In a 12-storey building, neighbors and newcomers intersect, and in these encounters the destiny of some will be twisted and that of others will take better paths. A few blocks away, in another building, two septuagenarians struggle to get the company of a couple who are in a fight against the clock for a few square meters.
