Tahimí Alvariño

Havana. Mother and daughter embark on a journey in an old Polski Fiat commonly known in Cuba as the “Polaquito”. The bond between Bertha and Margot does not prevent a family's and country's turbulence from arising. Immersed in conversation, the distance to an inevitable destination is shortened.

In Cienfuegos in the 1980s, a poetic young girl tries to make sense of her parents' volatile separation while keenly observing the reality of Cuba's dilemmas.

Luis, a sterility physician, is in love with a young colleague and faces the dilemma of breaking his marriage or accepting the tranquility and security of domestic life.

After several years of retirement, Roco decides to make a new film. To achieve this, he reassemble his crew: cinematographer Larsen, Nacho the cameraman, soundman Meta and Cacho, the ever loyal machinist. But social and personal crises have dispersed the strange and remote territories of reality. Sometimes dramatic and and sometimes funny, Roco's search will lead him to an unavoidable encounter of life, death and rebirth.

Dans un village cubain, une nouvelle se répand comme une trainée de poudre : tous ceux qui portent le nom de Castiñeiras recevront un héritage juteux que des religieuses ont déposé dans une banque anglaise au XVIIIème siècle. Tous les Castiñeiras commencent à faire les démarches pour toucher leur part, mais ils rencontreront beaucoup d'obstacles sur leur chemin.

Emilio, jeune ingenieur au chomage, arrive a la gare routiere d'un village de Cuba. Des dizaines de personnes y attendent l'arrivee d'un bus ou, mieux encore, la reparation du car de la station que le chef de gare a entreprise deux jours plus tot. Jacqueline entre a son tour et rejoint la file d'attente, sous le regard enchante d'Emilio. Un bus apparait enfin, mais n'offre qu'une seule place. La tension monte et une dispute eclate pour designer le chanceux acquereur de ce billet.

Superheroes play a leading role in many contemporary films, and Latin American animated films are not left out of this. This is evident in La Súper, the colorful first feature-length film by veteran Cuban animation filmmaker Ernesto Piña. Yudeisi is a young woman whose fight for justice makes her the chosen one for a series of superpowers. These do not come from technology or experiments, but from an aboriginal warrior who freed the inhabitants of her village 500 years ago and whose spirit resurfaces to fight for good. Yudeisi as a new defender uses her qualities to defend women from male violence.