Humanity suffers the effects of a new pandemic that causes some of the dead to come back to life after a certain period of time. An old journalist reports on a recently inaugurated facility designed to contain the incidences of the disease. By chance, the camera records how the corpse of a woman wakes up from lethargy. This marks the beginning of a fleeting relationship, in which both will debate the limits of sacrifice and responsibility for death.
Since ancient times, life has been a cycle where some will be seeds to ensure continuity.
On a small island, Flor takes care of her father Basilio. At the dawn of what would be just another day in their lives, she discovers a diary that will allow her to travel to Basilio’s past, and learn for the first time the secret of the island.
After a hard day at work, father and son go out. They haven’t lived together in a while so they need to catch up. But communication for the deaf son and his stubborn father is still a long road ahead.
Afibola is an afrofeminist and queer activist, yet theirs son, Olorun, must unlearn daily most of what they is taught in school. Afibola and theirs community try to teach Olorun how to grow up to be a free black man, despite the obstacles around them. In the intimacy of their community home spaces, they reflect on the difficulty of educating a black child in a racist and discriminatory society.
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.
Sayu is a teenage girl struggling between divergent realities to shape her identity. On the one hand she is a Cuban who skates and loves to sing, but on the other hand she is a Japanese whose family wants to take her back to Japan to give her a better future. Her daily life is characterized by a crossroads of irreconcilable paths.
One night, between sleep and wakefulness, a woman remembers the abortion she experienced and the ghosts that accompany her.
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.
In a boarding school, Raidel witnesses the mistreatment and humiliation suffered by teammate Randy and tells the story in fear of becoming his replacement.
Raudel lives and works in a ship-breaking yard in the West of Cuba. Haunted by a strange childhood memory, he is on the lookout for ghostly presences.
His grandmother’s death brings Hansel back to Cuba to take care of his brother Marcos. With the help of an old family game, Hansel attempts to restore his brother’s trust that has been lost over the years.
