Armando Capó

Cuba, early 21st century. Mandi is a young art graduate who returns to his small coastal town to complete his community service. There, he must confront a local reality that clashes with his aspirations and ideals, placing him at a crossroads between avoiding confrontation within an oppressive political context and pursuing personal and artistic freedom.

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.

A mother and her son, make a living from the sea from their quayside home on Santiago de Cuba bay. In the course of the film, their very strong and strange relationship is revealed in all its complexity.

For filmmaker Armando Capó, the southeastern Cuban town of Gibara is a place of ghosts, haunted by his lost youth, a bustling past that cannot be recovered — and the skeleton of a whale. THE LAND OF THE WHALE is a beautiful meditation on craft, beauty, aging, the transmission of knowledge, and what it means to be an artist.

A version of El Estatola del Campo's poetic Faust of the Poet (1886) integrates the major trilogy of Argentine gaucho poetry, is proposed here in a faithful version and integral.

In the cabin the conductor activates the gear lever; his motion breaks the inertia. Behind is the station, then images of the machinery, the resignation of travelers, and the landscape. The events are increasingly bizarre; there is no destination, only the journey as metaphor.

A man rejected by society lives in an old wreck, anchored somewhere in the bay of Santiago de Cuba. One day, he receives a mysterious call that makes him eager to get in touch with other people again.

In a tough Havana neighborhood, Italian Samuel Fabbri's boxing gym offers a safe haven to keep kids off the streets. Teenagers like Haiffer and Adrialis are encouraged to dream big, both inside and outside the ring. This vibrant yet dilapidated space reflects the tensions of Cuba as the team prepares for a crucial match against a more modern gym, which could either revive their fortunes or spell the end of Samuel's twenty-year fight.

For three days we follow the lives of several characters, each of them on a journey: from the everyday humdrum of their ordinary lives (the exhausting work shifts, being misunderstood by society, the homeless, the lonely, the yearning and the lack of any meaning for existence) to the place where they meet to recover something that the rationality of modern life cannot offer them: faith.

A short movie by Armando Capò