Country: Brazil

Soberane

Hakan does not wish to return to Brazil, but doesn’t know how to tell Lissy that they can no longer offer her a dream life outside of Cuba. Hakan grapples with indecision when Lissy discovers that they have kept from her a chance to get off the island. Out of options that allow them to stay, Hakan must accept the new person they have become in order to return home.

Wara

Wara majored in film and audiovisual at the Ceara Federal University, Brazil, 2017; and most recently as a director at the EICTV. She has been in the film industry since 2013 as a script writer and director in projects related to native and gender themes. She is currently developing projects about a return to the Native identify through science fiction. Her style is hybrid fictional.

The sea is also yours

One night, between sleep and wakefulness, a woman remembers the abortion she experienced and the ghosts that accompany her.

Michelle Coelho

Michelle Coelho, 32, Brazilian, is a journalist by training and documentary filmmaker graduated from the International Film and Television School of San Antonio de Los Baños, Cuba, with a master’s degree in author documentary creation from the same school. She started her audiovisual career with video reportages in Brazil, especially on issues related to agrarian and urban conflicts for media vehicles such as Brasil de Fato, The Intercept, Opera Mundi, among others. Her short film “Box of Soul” (2020) was selected for the special exhibition IDFA x EICTV and Pelicula Latina in Brussels. In 2021 she made a short film in Cuba “A Marcha de Balogun” selected by the São Paulo International Short Film Festival, Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival, and the Benditas Tú Festival in Argentina. Her film “The Sea is Also Yours” was selected by the International Kurtzfilmtage Winterthur Festival in Switzerland, also for the International Rotterdam Festival and Miradas Doc Tenerife.

Guillermina

Based on a true story, “Guillermina” is a film that reconstructs the memories of the trace left in a 9-year-old child, the son of a well-to-do family in Havana in the 1940s, his wet-nurse, a black woman named Guillermina. From the memories of his early childhood the story unfolds, overflowing and transcending the events narrated by the protagonist. It is a work where animation and archival images are intertwined to lead the public to question what they hear and observe.