Luis Alberto García

The Last Supper

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea

Nelson Villagra, Silvano Rey

A pious plantation owner attempts to teach Christianity to 12 of his slaves by inviting them to participate in a reenactment of the Last Supper.

Club Habana

Jorge Herrera

Yori Gómez, Luis Alberto García

Barbara is about to travel to Spain for an exhibition of her paintings. The night before starting her journey there is a hurricane and she has to stay in a nightclub until the morning. During the night she comes into contact with different people who have a variety of conflicts and interests. She is drawn into this microcosm which seems to be a reflection of Cuban society today.

Boccaccerías Habaneras

Arturo Sotto Díaz

Jorge Perugorría, Irela Bravo

Three stories, loosely inspired on short stories from classic Boccaccio’s Decameron, are connected by a creatively-bankrupt writer who offers money in exchange for original subjects.

Mambí

Teodoro Ríos, Santiago Ríos

Carlos Fuentes, Gustavo Salmerón

El elefante y la bicicleta

Juan Carlos Tabío

Luis Alberto García, Lillian Vega

After two years in jail, El Isleño returns to the island of La Fe, ruled by the dictator Francisco Gavilán. He arrives with a cinematograph and exhibits "Robin Hood" to the people. The next day the bridge that communicates La Fe to the mainland has been destroyed, and the people plan to overthrow Gavilán.

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.

Espejuelos oscuros

Jessica Rodríguez

Laura De la Uz, Luis Alberto García

A blind woman living alone in the country tells tales to a criminal holding her captive to keep him calm.

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.

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.

Viva Cuba

Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti, Iraida Malberti Cabrera

Malú Tarrau Broche, Jorgito Miló Ávila

The friendship between two children is threatened by their parents’ differences. Malú is from a family that was upper-class before the Revolution and remains well-to-do through remittances from relatives overseas, and her single mother (Larisa Vega Alamar) does not want her to play with Jorgito, as she thinks his background coarse and commonplace. Jorgito’s mother (Luisa María Jiménez Rodríguez),

Una pelea cubana contra los demonios

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea

Olivia Belizaires, Armando Bianchi

In 1672 Cuban revolutionaries launch an uprising against the Spanish who are occupying the country.

Clandestinos

Fernando Pérez

Luis Alberto García, Isabel Cristina Santos Téllez

In 1950s Havana, a romance blooms between two young revolutionaries whose clandestine printing press publishes pamphlets meant to stir up rebellion against the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. As their popularity grows, so, too, does their revolutionary zeal and their desire to mobilize other urban guerilla units.

Pura Sangre

Luis Ospina

Florina Lemaitre, Carlos Mayolo

Roberto Hurtado suffers from a rare disease that requires massive transfusions of blood from children or adolescents. His son blackmails three employees to get blood for him and they resort to unscrupulous methods to obtain it.

Vestido de novia

Marilyn Solaya

Laura De la Uz, Luis Alberto García

In 90's Habana, a nurse and a home builder, hopelessly in love, live happily married. A circumstantial fact of her past life will put their feelings to test and undermine the most elemental principles.

Vientos de La Habana

Félix Viscarret

Juana Acosta, Jorge Perugorría

The killing of a fiery young teacher sets Detective Mario Conde on the trail of a drug kingpin with ties to the high school he once attended.

Cerro de la cruz

Constantino Escandón

Luis Alberto García, Emery Eduardo Granados

A young revolutionary on the verge of death finds himself trapped in his desires for love. His feelings in the midst of war are clarified when he discovers that he wants to love and be loved by another man. This short film questions the notions of hatred that arise in homophobic coexistence.