Alicia Hechavarría

Marlie, a dutiful assistant who dreams of being the theater's next great actor, struggles to wrangle a flamboyant cast of characters for a closing performance of Las Amargas Lagrimas de Petra von Kant, their adaptation of Fassbinder's German text. Dealing with Margo, the theater's volatile director, is always challenging, but it's critically so when Marlie has to tell her that the main electric panel has collapsed just two hours before show and she had to call the only electrician who could fix the archaic apparatus: Frank, Margo's ex-husband.

Tito is 23 years old with a mother who loves him and a car that allows him to earn an honest living. His neighbors see him as a formal and educated boy. Nobody knows that behind that façade hides someone with a nihilistic vision of life. And that involves committing terrible acts for which he may have to pay someday. But Tito does not care about the future. There is only the present.

1991 : la Guerre froide est terminée, l’URSS s’écroule. Sergeï, un cosmonaute russe reste coincé dans l’espace, oublié par les Soviétiques qui ont bien d’autres soucis sur Terre... À Cuba, à l’aide d’une fréquence radio, Sergio entre en contact par hasard avec Sergeï et va tout mettre en œuvre pour le ramener sur terre. Mais sans le savoir, Sergio est sur écoute et espionné…

A mother tries to offer support to her daughter who is beginning her career.

President Barack Obama visited Cuba on 2016, the first trip of a US president since the 1950s. In 2017, Donald Trump was elected signaling changes in relations with Cuban government. How to survive being who Cubans are?

In Havana, where economic difficulties are numerous, two young people try to find out if love and aspirations can survive in a city defined by adversity.