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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.

Hideki Nakazaki

Born in Peru. Studied direction of fiction at the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión, San Antonio de los Baños (EICTV). Graduated in Communication Sciences, he completed a diploma in documentary filmmaking at the Observatory of Cinematography in Argentina. Director of the fiction short film “Nubes Pasajeras” (2021) and the documentary short film “La Luz de Masao Nakagawa” (2021), winner of the short film project contest of the Ministry of Culture of Peru, which has been exhibited in different festivals around the world such as: Festival de Málaga, Frontera Sur (Chile), Festival Biarritz Amerique Latina, Festival de Mar de Plata, Festival Documental de Buenos Aires (FIDBA), Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival, among others. He is a founding partner of the audiovisual production company N35 Films.

He is currently working on his first documentary feature film project also under the name “La Luz de Masao Nakagawa” (The Light of Masao Nakagawa). Selected by the Latin American Meeting of Non-Fiction Film Projects Frontera Sur Lab, in Concepción, southern Chile, and the International Transmedia Documentary Workshop Making Docs, in Cali, Colombia. Winner of the New Media Projects contest of the Peruvian Ministry of Culture.

Between two islands

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.

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.