Claudia Muñiz

Havana, December 2014. A director is looking for a leading actress to play Stella in a Cuban adaptation of “A Streetcar Named Desire” when the announcement that Cuba and the United States are restoring diplomatic relations irrupts into the ordinarily weightless everyday lives of a group of actors getting ready for the casting.

Lía and Manuel live illegally in a closed house. Tania, trying to regain her rights over the space that her uncle left her, intends to evict them. But the couple is not ready to leave and Tania decides to retrench on the top floor of the house. The war that starts ends up moving them closer.

Instantané de la Havane d’aujourd’hui : un portrait contemporain d’une ville éclectique à travers un film composé de 7 chapitres réalisés par Benicio del Toro, Pablo Trapero, Julio Medem, Elia Suleiman, Gaspar Noé, Juan Carlos Tabío et Laurent Cantet. À travers leurs différentes sensibilités, origines et styles cinématographiques, ils ont saisi l’énergie et la vitalité qui rendent cette ville unique. Certains réalisateurs ont eu le désir de croiser la réalité cubaine en prise avec son quotidien, avec le regard d’étrangers loin de leurs repères. D’autres ont choisi l’immersion totale et se sont inspirés de la vie de la population locale. Chaque chapitre raconte une journée de la semaine, à travers le quotidien d’un personnage différent. Loin des clichés, ce film a pour vocation de faire résonner l’âme de cette ville hétéroclite au fil des quartiers, des ambiances, des générations et des cultures.

A rare independent film from Cuba, this charming and tender portrait of female friendship follows three hair-salon employees as they hit the town looking for excitement in those parts of Havana that tourists rarely see.

When Marushka enters Ivan's butcher shop, it's not to buy sausages. In the back room, vodka and waltzing and the pleasures of the flesh may lead the two lovers to the ultimate chop!

During a violent winter storm, a meek bartender spends the longest night of the year with a mysterious stranger with whom she shares a meal and an ancient ritual. This film is based on the story collection and proposed tv series HOTEL NETHERLAND by writer/director Lisandro Perez-Rey.

A Cuban immigrant struggles with their transgender identity while searching for their missing sister in New York City's underground sex industry.

In the manner of a well run Greek tragedy, leaving aside one of its components, dragging in its passing narrative certainty by the viewer that violent death is the hallmark of so much misfortune purifier, Los Dioses Rotos crowns the very successful arrival of Ernesto Daranas to the feature domains and with it, the team that accompanied him, including the actors.

A rare independent film from Cuba, this charming and tender portrait of female friendship follows three hair-salon employees as they hit the town looking for excitement in those parts of Havana that tourists rarely see.

Lía and Manuel live illegally in a closed house. Tania, trying to regain her rights over the space that her uncle left her, intends to evict them. But the couple is not ready to leave and Tania decides to retrench on the top floor of the house. The war that starts ends up moving them closer.