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- Four vignettes about the lives of the Cuban people set during the pre-revolutionary era.
- The director Icíar Bollaín presents the story of the Cuban dancer Carlos Acosta, a legend on the dance world and the first black dancer to perform some of the most famous ballet roles. A dancer who did not want to dance.
- A young man attempts to fight the system in an entertaining account of bureaucracy amok and the tyranny of red tape.
- It's the late 1980s in Cuba, and in an isolated ranch in a small town near Santa Clara, lives Vilma, a young nurse who dreams of a better place to raise her upcoming baby, along with her disabled husband Ivan. However, neither her skills as a nurse nor as a shooter will free Vilma from her harsh reality until a natural phenomena sweeps her away and Vilma wakes up in a place where it seems her dream will come true.
- A night of music, drugs, alcohol and sex in an apartment where young people from a privileged sector of Havana meet, but not alien to melancholy and hopelessness.
- Angelillo is a young and handsome cantaor in love with Carmen, the daughter of the town's undertaker. After getting caught up in an absurd tavern brawl, the man is wrongly blamed for murder and imprisoned. Carmen, pregnant with Angelillo, flees in shame from her parents' house. Some time later, a woman shows up with the baby and the news that Carmen died giving birth.
- Mike Porcel is the lost member of the Cuban "Nueva Trova" musical movement: his lack of revolutionary spirit condemned him to the rejection of his colleagues and turned him into an outcast for a decade, until he managed to go into exile. Without resentment, but without forgetting, the film reconstructs his story and rekindles a forgotten brilliance.
- Filmmaker Jose Luis Guerin documents his experience during a year of traveling as a guest of film festivals to present his previous film. What emerges is a wonderfully humane and sincere portrayal of the people that he meets when he goes off the beaten track in some of the world's major cities.
- What seemed to be a return trip to my country at a time of changes, ends as a trip into my self between contradictions and questionings about my identity as a Cuban.
- Indira, a Cuban actress, succeeded to flee to USA. In Santa Clara (Cuba) she left 11-years-old son Leandro and other members of her numerous family. Settled now in New Jersey, Indira struggles to adapt to cold weather, different mentality and to a completely new social system. Her "American Dream" turns to be an "American Nightmare".
- On the corner of Línea Avenue and 8th Street, in La Habana, there was once a bus factory.
- On New Year's Eve, a banker and his wife invite several friends to have dinner in their apartment. Suddenly, an astrologer makes an appearance and predicts seven of the present people will die in the next weeks.
- An old, obese and gay dance instructor who deals with antiques in La Habana, is obsessed with a handsome young security guard that can be his ruin.
- The story of the movie revolves around three sisters, each who want to dedicate themselves to the world of music (Norma Suárez, Minín Bujones, and América Crespo).
- Dive into the captivating story of a former soldier from Fidel Castro's regime, who begins to question the very ideology he once fiercely defended. From the streets of Cuba, he embarks on an unexpected journey of self-discovery, immersing himself in the world of literature and penning a tribute to the iconic Cuban filmmaker, Humberto Solás. But the manuscript becomes more than just words-it becomes his ticket to a perilous defection. In another corner of Cuba, his cousin also defects to another country and a family faces public scorn, branded as 'los gusanos' (worms) for daring to dream of a life beyond the island's confines. Fate brings these two parallel tales together in the vibrant city of Miami, culminating in a poignant reunion amidst tragedy back in their homeland. Mi Cuba is a story of resilience, rebellion, and the relentless pursuit of freedom despite all odds.
- Indestructible is a visual journey through the history of Salsa, from its inception until the very moment when Diego "El Cigala" makes it all his own. Diego drives his strong personality as a musician to the open roads that lead from Colombia to New York via Cuba, Puerto Rico, Dominican or Miami. Indestructible is an experience that reflects this unique adventure that goes beyond the music, to reach the hearts of all who love life. Indestructible lets us be witness of an extraordinary meeting with the great living legends of Salsa, refreshed and excited with the originality of El Cigala. Willing to make metals and drums rumble, and to go to battle once again. A battle as big as Salsa itself. Inspiring new steps for a rhythm that has always been synonymous with life, happiness, hopes and dreaming.
- An autobiographical midfielder in which the Catalan filmmaker Isaki Lacuesta explains himself from some of the different places in the world he has visited. The film is part of the film collection that the Center Pompidou in Paris commissioned those filmmakers who want to make known.
- To keep his aunt's cash flowing from Cuba, a man in Madrid pretends he is married to the Spanish countess of Miraflores, and goes to La Habana with the girl and a fake father, but the real Miraflores count arrives in town.
- Chan Lee, a serial murderer who uses culinary art as a ritual to seduce his victim, Gloria, a sensual young girl.
- Gerardo and Miguel are neighbors in the same building, one day they break into the next-door apartment, so they will fight each other for their neighbor's home.
- Strange things are afoot at the opera as Angel, a countertenor, and his twin brother prepare for an audition that will change their lives.
- Music video for the song Para Repartir by C. Tangana and Alizz. Directed by Santos Bacana
- A big house with an antique splendor. In front of the television, Beatriz, a 90 year-old woman, still, watches the family films from the beginning of the Cuban Revolution. In the rooms, Marina beautiful and decadent, prepares herself for her 50th. birthday. With Nancy, the maid, Marina waits for the call of her daughter in exile. At dawn, she celebrates among memories and with the ones that never left.
- While two police officers try to find the stolen severed head of a colleague, two other officers find the corpse of a woman.
- Emeril invites Aarón Sánchez to go with him to visit the previously forbidden country and taste the local Cuban cuisine. Their historic trip has them feasting at a dinner fit for royalty, enjoying a traditional Ajiaco stew made with the freshest vegetables from an urban garden and enjoying one of the finest roasted pigs Emeril has ever tasted.
- In the scalding summer of Havana, the body of a gay young man and son of a diplomat is found, leading Conde to a world of sexual possibilities.