Cuban Film Series
New Cuban Cinema
Wednesday August 12, 2009
$7-$10 sliding scale - 7:30pm
Selections from the annual ICAIC New Filmmakers Showcase 2001-2008
Shorts, animation, documentaries and features by Cuba´s new generation of filmmakers, selected by the Instituto Cubano de Arte e Industria Cinematográfico (ICAIC) for La Peña Cultural Center. In Spanish with English subtitles.
"Horizontes" (Horizons)
Directors: Adanoe Lima Cruz and Yemelí Cruz
Animation / 2004 / 3 min.
Two characters with different dreams meet on a rooftop.
"deMOLER" (Demolition)
Director: Alejandro Ramírez Anderson
Documentary / 2004 / 12 min.
A sugar worker´s feelings about the demolition of the mill where he worked.
"Tacones cercanos" (High Heel Blues)
Director: Jessica Rodríguez
Documentary / 2008 / 20 min.
A Havana transvestite caught between the world of her aesthetic, ideal aspirations and the raw brutality of her daily life.
"Video de familia" (Family Video)
Director: Humberto Padrón
Fiction / 2001 / 47 min.
The family has decided to film a video-letter for Raulito who left the country four years ago. All goes well until his sister decides to reveal a secret.
