Filmmaker Daniela Muñoz Barroso, who is almost completely deaf, wants to discover the identity of the remarkable musician Mafifa. Her quest leads her on the trail of an enigmatic woman, and also makes her question her own head and heart.
Mafifa
Rating restriction: General Audiences
Stretcher
An old man on a painstaking journey through the Cuban Sierra Maestra. An atmospheric look at a world where time seems to have stopped.
Municipal Swimming Pool
Every day, from 6month-babies to 80 years-elders, come together to receive swimming lessons o to simply enjoy of the benefits of being in the water. But this space, the gathering and the swimming lessons are only the means to allow us to get access to people´s culture, latent in the thought of the bathers. Isn´t the swimming pool the ideal space for the mind to unburden itself, once the body is domesticated by the repetition of kicks and strokes, and to travel unbridled between past, present and future?
Casa de la noche
A city that has its roots in the spirit of its inhabitants. The patriarch absorbs us into its womb and reveals a utopian vision inspired by Havana and its symbols, and the treatment of degradation.
Kendo Monogatari
A women sells her beauty salon to help her friend leaving Cuba. As soon as she gets his first news from abroad, she starts practicing a strange martial art.
The Project of the Century
In an abandoned nuclear project conceived by Cuba and the USSR, a disillusioned engineer survives with his mean father and his frustrated son, while 1970s found footage of the “project of the century” describe its ambitious scope.
August
Cuba (Agosto,1994) . The world of Carlos is collapsing. His little hometown is a chaos. His friends are leaving, his grandmother dies, he is exploring sexuality. He was hoping for a normal summer but his emotions are upside down while he tries to survive with an uncertain future when government politics change and thousands of cubans are throwing themselves to the sea with the hope of escaping.
Absence
A mother and her son, make a living from the sea from their quayside home on Santiago de Cuba bay. In the course of the film, their very strong and strange relationship is revealed in all its complexity.
Fragile
A daughter has dedicated her entire life to caring for her ailing mother. Now, she yearns for her hard-hearted mother’s acknowledgement of all the dedication and love she has shown her.
Eternal Flame
In a world in which the statues are worth more than the people, Julian finds out that he is nominated to be the next “Model Employee”. He sinks into a deep crisis in the face of having to leave his family, however, it is that which fears to leave what pushes him to sacrifice and to obtain the great honor. That honor is nothing more than death, for to be the “Model Employee” consists of being bust for life and serving the state.
The many deaths of Arístides
19-year-old Arístides died while serving in the Cuban navy. There are no pictures of him, only a letter he sent to his sister shortly before his death.
Alberto
After almost 15 years, Alberto decides to return to Cuba and save ties with his family. When he arrives he discovers a family secret.