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After a tragic incident in which he kills his abusive stepfather, Elvis is sent to prison and separated from his childhood sweetheart, Yuli. Once released he is dragged into the sordid world of prostitution in Cuba and faces a critical decision: fight to win back Yuli's love or flee to the United States and start a new life.
The lives of three strangers in Santo Domingo, a girl from high society, a lonesome alcoholic cop and a drag queen cabaret performer; interwine on the eve of a hurricane fallowing the murder of a young poet and drug dealer
The night forest hides Orestes' deepest terrors: darkness, the spirits of enslaved ancestors and his brother's homosexuality.
After watching his favorite TV program, Medical Emergency, Alberto (8) asks he father, Félix (50) to play with him. Alberto, trying to ask and bug his father to play with him, provokes his drunk and nearly unconcious father to try to hit him. However, when Félix gets up, he falls under his own weight and hits his head. Alberto attempts to save his dad by following the step by step directions of the medical TV show.
Havana, December 2014. A director is looking for a leading actress to play Stella in a Cuban adaptation of “A Streetcar Named Desire” when the announcement that Cuba and the United States are restoring diplomatic relations irrupts into the ordinarily weightless everyday lives of a group of actors getting ready for the casting.
Santa, a peasant woman loyal to the Revolution, is sent to guard Andrés, a gay writer who is under house arrest, considered “ untrustworthy” for his ideas and sexuality by the Cuban authorities. Set in a small village in eastern Cuba during the early 1980s, this poignant political drama depicts an encounter between two deeply thoughtful souls on opposite sides of a profound cultural divide. Both have experienced deep loss, and both know the damaging effects of isolation and oppression. Even so, the cavernous ideological divide separating them — the same one that has separated Cuban friends and kin for over 50 years — has until now seemed insurmountable.
Under the threat of a hurricane pending over the city, Lubrini is looking for his lover, who disappeared in the streets of Havana.
