Jorge Perugorría
1965 (59 лет)
Fresa y chocolate
Juan Carlos Tabío, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Jorge Perugorría, Vladimir Cruz
Set in 1979, following a young Communist man's relationship with a gay Catholic writer, exploring tolerance, inclusion, homophobia and challenging its Cuban audience with great humour. Based on the short story by Cuban writer Senel Paz.
Strawberry and Chocolate
Viva
Paddy Breathnach
Héctor Medina, Jorge Perugorría
Jesús, a young hairdresser, works at a Havana nightclub for drag performers and dreams of being a performer himself. Encouraged by his mentor, Mama, Jesús finally gets his chance to take the stage. But when Angel, his estranged father recently released from a 15-year stint in prison, abruptly reenters his life, his world is quickly turned upside down. The macho Angel tries to squash his son’s ambition to perform in drag. Father and son clash over their opposing expectations of each other, struggling to understand one another and reconcile as a family. Shot in a gritty neighborhood far from the Havana most tourists know, Viva is a heartrending story of music, performance, and survival.
Viva
The Waiting List
Juan Carlos Tabío
Vladimir Cruz, Jorge Perugorría
At a rundown bus station in rural Cuba, the line of passengers waiting just keeps getting longer. The problem is that every bus that passes by is already full. Their only hope is to wait for the station's bus to be fixed. As the disparate group settles in, relationships start forming between the passengers: Emilio, a young engineer, becomes smitten with a beautiful young woman who is en route to meet her Spanish fiancé, a blind man gets support from the others to go to the head of the line. Frustration and disorder reign when the one bus brakes down and no one can leave. Resigned to working together, the group magically transforms the station into a beautiful place where no one wants to leave.
The Waiting List
Clandestine Stories in Havana
Luis Alberto García, Diego Musiak
Ulises Dumont, Jorge Perugorría
Argentine 40-year-old Laura, visiting Cuba for the first time on business, is divorcing her husband back in Buenos Aires. She's soon involved with smooth-talking cab driver Frank. Garment manufacturer Francisco, having lost his wife, children, and home, has traveled to Cuba to kill himself, but Frank's mother realizes that Francisco is the teenage lover who got her pregnant. In other relationships, a gay couple argue over whether or not to remain in the closet, and two documentary filmmakers have career conflicts.
Clandestine Stories in Havana
Guantanamera
Juan Carlos Tabío, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Jorge Perugorría, Mirta Ibarra
During the 'Special Period', the members of a funeral procession cross paths with truckdrivers who have to take the same route, and begin to talk about God and the world. They discover that life for both groups has many similarities, as well as a lot of differences.
Guantanamera
El cuerno de la abundancia
Juan Carlos Tabío
Jorge Perugorría, Enrique Molina
An unclaimed fortune, grown for centuries in a British bank account, becomes a potential windfall for Bernadito Castiñeiras and the residents of the tiny village of Yaragüey, Cuba. To receive his massive inheritance check, Bernadito must prove his lineage to the Castiñeiras nuns who first populated the region. In an isolated and impoverished town where many residents share the same surname, a feud breaks out between the "Castiñeiras" and "Castiñeyras" families.
Horn of Plenty
Fátima o el Parque de la Fraternidad
Jorge Perugorría
Carlos Enrique Almirante, Tomás Cao
Fiction film based on the homonymous short story by Miguel Barnet, which tells the story of Fatima, the Queen of the night. The film tells the life of a young homosexual and transvestite, who prostitute to earn a living, and also to maintain economically to the man whom he loves, and who must face all the complexities arising from its decisions.
Fatima, Queen of the Night
Cuando vuelvas a mi lado
Gracia Querejeta
Mercedes Sampietro, Julieta Serrano
When three estranged sisters, Gloria, Ana and Lidia, meet up again on the death of their mother, Adela, they find themselves obeying her somewhat eccentric last wishes. Though their mother has spent the last 30 years without uttering a single word, she has left very clear written instructions of what she wants done after her death.
By My Side Again
