Roberto (30) lives a lonely life in his farm, derives satisfaction on his work but suffers the frustrations of someone who hides his homosexuality. One stormy night, a man and a woman knock at his door, their motorbike has broken down. Roberto helps Arnaldo to fix it. The oils stains Roberto and Arnaldo’s hands. The first tries desperately to remove it. Roberto cannot sleep, Arnaldo joins him. There’s a sexual connection. The next morning the couple leave, Roberto feels lonelier.
For Cuban families, immersed in a precarious economy, accessing essential elements for life ends up being a long road crossed by many obstacles.
CUBA, 1984. Graduated in Audiovisual Media Arts from the University of the Arts of Cuba, with a specialization in Direction. Since 2007 she has been a member of the Creation Group of Televisión Serrana, where she has made a large number of documentaries. Her work has been exhibited at the Clermont Ferrand Short Film Festival, the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA) and the Cairo International Women’s Festival.
Javi shows up for the last time at a queer club where he works as an erotic dancer, but he must deal with Castillo, a regular customer who resists the fact that he will never see him again.
With mud, bricks are made. With linen, sheets are made. With grain, bread is made. With grapes, wine is made. But with man, what is made?
Lucía Malandro and Daniel Saucedo founded a creative duo in 2018 while studying at the film school in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba, with the aim of rescuing and creatively intervening in historical archives, both filmic and photographic. With an academic background in theater and self-taught experience in visual arts, they use film to explore the theatricality and audiovisual resources with which political systems construct large and small historical fictions.
After graduating from EICTV, they undertook the arduous task of rescuing the vast photographic and documentary collection contained in the Cuban criminal archives. Following this work, and having safeguarded thousands of unpublished photographs of Cuban history, they were awarded a scholarship to study a master’s degree related to the preservation and formal and creative use of film archives at the Elias Querejeta Zine Eskola in San Sebastian.
During their five years of work, they have produced several audiovisual pieces that have been selected and exhibited at important international film festivals. They created the collective Archivistas Salvajes, focused on establishing the first Archive of Cuban Amateur and Independent Cinema, outside of the state industry.
Lucía Malandro and Daniel Saucedo founded a creative duo in 2018 while studying at the film school in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba, with the aim of rescuing and creatively intervening in historical archives, both filmic and photographic. With an academic background in theater and self-taught experience in visual arts, they use film to explore the theatricality and audiovisual resources with which political systems construct large and small historical fictions.
After graduating from EICTV, they undertook the arduous task of rescuing the vast photographic and documentary collection contained in the Cuban criminal archives. Following this work, and having safeguarded thousands of unpublished photographs of Cuban history, they were awarded a scholarship to study a master’s degree related to the preservation and formal and creative use of film archives at the Elias Querejeta Zine Eskola in San Sebastian.
During their five years of work, they have produced several audiovisual pieces that have been selected and exhibited at important international film festivals. They created the collective Archivistas Salvajes, focused on establishing the first Archive of Cuban Amateur and Independent Cinema, outside of the state industry.
In the vibrant New York City scene, the life of the gay-assured Raul takes an unexpected turn when he is captivated by Ella’s karaoke performance. Attracted to her as never before, he is faced with a choice: embrace this new connection and risk his secure identity, or engage in a tempting threesome with two other men.
A huge blackout has plunged Cuba into darkness. In the streets, the inhabitants try to escape the gloom while the bonfires seem to announce the end of an era. Taking refuge inside our house, my mother tells me about a vision that has been tormenting her for years.
