Caleb Casas

Movies

Mantis Nest
August 1994, and we had a multiple homicide in a small town in Cuba: two men and a woman. Azucar’s fathers. The young girl is the only witness. To prove her innocence, Azucar begins telling the life of her parents, the story of a love triangle that started 50 years ago, when Elena, Tomas and Emilio were just kids. In the town, everyone believes that Azucar is the murderer.
Chamaco
Miguel Depás
When a young man is killed in Central Park in La Habana, a series of coincidences reveals that many of the night walkers that hang around the park are related to the crime.
Personal Belongings
Ernesto
Young Doctor Ana lives alone because she couldn't bear to leave Cuba when her family sailed away on a raft to the US. Ernesto lives in his car with his belongings in a small case, traveling from embassy to embassy trying to fulfill his dream of leaving Cuba. These Star-crossed lovers long to be together, they are pulled apart by different dreams rooted in different countries. In his directorial debut, Alejandro Brugués offers his personal view on the insistently revisited theme in Cuban art and literature - emigration and the laceration that it implies.