EICTV Cuba

The film opens with Audry Gutiérrez Alea, Titón's daughter, using a banana as a dildo. The short is part of a double experiment of which only half was filmed. Marzel wrote two scripts: an original and its parody, but only wanted to make the latter. Therefore, we are witnessing a reference without a reference, which involves the most absurd series of dialogues and monologues of which the national cinema has memory.

Maria-Esther is a Black Cuban woman and a Santería practitioner on the verge of emigrating to Brazil due to the economic crisis gripping her country. In the final days before her departure—uncertain about her future and facing her sister's religious intolerance—she decides to turn to Oxum to reveal her destiny.

During a documentary residency in the Sierra Maestra, Cuba, a filmmaker befriends Sara, a seven-year-old girl who moves between San Pablo de Yao and La Nave. Together, they play and explore a world where Sara is simply a child; within this everyday intimacy, traces of the island’s crisis quietly emerge. The filmmaker transforms this bond into a letter to Sara—a return to those shared days, and a way to think of her from afar after they part.

A young Cuban couple gets lost, and searching for a place to stay the night, enters the home of M. Wong and Madame Tsu, who have sinister plans for them.

A woman's journey on an imaginary motorcycle and her encounter with a necklace collector.