Vladimir Cruz

Ricki travels to Cuba after many years to meet his girlfriend Beatriz, but she has changed a lot; Claudia, in a desperate search for money to buy a house, tries to scam a drug dealer; and Celina, a necrophiliac prepares to spend a weekend with a corpse.. Three dark love stories that, thanks to various unforeseen events, will intertwine until they become the revelation of the plot of a film that at the end of the story illuminates the drug dealer.

Tito is 23 years old with a mother who loves him and a car that allows him to earn an honest living. His neighbors see him as a formal and educated boy. Nobody knows that behind that façade hides someone with a nihilistic vision of life. And that involves committing terrible acts for which he may have to pay someday. But Tito does not care about the future. There is only the present.

В своей квартире изнасилована и убита молодая учительница. В квартире обнаружены следы наркотиков и алкоголя. За расследование берется Марио Конде, романтик в душе и писатель по натуре. Следы ведут в его родную школу, но так ли все просто?

A thief breaks into the home of a famous writer, unknowingly stealing what turns out to be the only manuscript of an upcoming story. In desperate need of money, he submits it to a contest...

Мастера мирового авторского кино сняли 7 маленьких увлекательных историй, действие которых происходит в Гаване.

Faced with the emptiness and lack of rational explanation for many of the problems of the contemporary world, it sometimes seems that the only solution is to take refuge in the instincts ... and instincts lead us to sex. At least this is the exit that find the protagonists of this story: sex as a shock to stay alive, the manipulation of others as a way to ward off impotence and reaffirm their personalities torn by loneliness. But the result is ephemeral and the attempt has unforeseen consequences.

Faced with the emptiness and lack of rational explanation for many of the problems of the contemporary world, it sometimes seems that the only solution is to take refuge in the instincts ... and instincts lead us to sex. At least this is the exit that find the protagonists of this story: sex as a shock to stay alive, the manipulation of others as a way to ward off impotence and reaffirm their personalities torn by loneliness. But the result is ephemeral and the attempt has unforeseen consequences.

Faced with the emptiness and lack of rational explanation for many of the problems of the contemporary world, it sometimes seems that the only solution is to take refuge in the instincts ... and instincts lead us to sex. At least this is the exit that find the protagonists of this story: sex as a shock to stay alive, the manipulation of others as a way to ward off impotence and reaffirm their personalities torn by loneliness. But the result is ephemeral and the attempt has unforeseen consequences.

In a reinterpretation of Madame Bovary set on contemporary Mexico City, Emilia, a middle class housewife, tries to deal with the monotony of her life. One day, she loses the two things which makes everything beareable: her lover and her credit card.

После статьи в газете, в которой сообщалось о том, что граждане по фамилии Кастиньейрас могут претендовать на многомиллионное наследство, дожидающееся своего законного владельца в британском банке, свои права на эти деньги предъявили более двадцати пяти тысяч кубинцев. Действие этой сатирической комедии происходит в маленьком кубинском городе, где новость о таинственном наследстве, оставленном некими английскими монахинями еще в 18-м столетии, производит эффект разорвавшейся бомбы. Все гордые обладатели фамилии Кастиньейрас тут же бросаются доказывать, что именно им-то и должны достаться вожделенные миллионы. Главный герой, Бернардито, решает возглавить эту безумную «золотую лихорадку».

Determined not to simply get married, start a family, and grow old like the rest of the girls in her town, an aspiring Cuban diva sets out to launch a career as a singer.

After the death of don Lucio, his widow Eloísa asks one of her neighbours to use the latter's house in order to hold the dead man's wake, since Eloísa's own house is too small for that. From then on, a series of strange happenings take place during a single day.

A chess columnist ends in prison when one of his columns is mistakenly seen as a subversive attack. From there he invents a game of war and strategy and a cellmate who escapes uses it initiating a real revolution.

A light-hearted and high-spirited story, full of spice, sensuality and romance, Viva Zapato tells the tale of Dolores, a beautiful Cuban dancer who decides to leave her failing marriage and open a restaurant by the beach with her aunt from Brazil. When her aunt sends her a pair of shoes instead of the money to start up the restaurant, she angrily sells the useless gift for spare change. Her dream fades away - until she discovers that the money was hidden in the heel. The zany search for the shoes begins, as she follows the footsteps through the lively streets of Havana, running into the quirky, colorful characters that bring Viva Zapato and Dolores' dream.

At a rundown bus station in rural Cuba, the line of passengers waiting just keeps getting longer. The problem is that every bus that passes by is already full. Their only hope is to wait for the station's bus to be fixed. As the disparate group settles in, relationships start forming between the passengers: Emilio, a young engineer, becomes smitten with a beautiful young woman who is en route to meet her Spanish fiancé, a blind man gets support from the others to go to the head of the line. Frustration and disorder reign when the one bus brakes down and no one can leave. Resigned to working together, the group magically transforms the station into a beautiful place where no one wants to leave.

Like her mother before her, beautiful Sissy wants to be a dancer at the Tropicana, Havana's famous cabaret. But her father, Candido, forbids her to do so because of his ongoing grudge against Armando, his former rival and choreographer at the nightclub.

Lorenzo, a Cuban policeman specializing in grave robberies is sent to Havana to investigate the death of a Havana-born German national, Hermann (or German in Spanish) found in a famous grave. Lorenzo recounts his findings to the police chief (Major Anancio) as he investigates Dora, an elevator operator and Herrmann's landlady, Aguila and Silvia (who work for Cultural Affairs), Chrissy (a British-born Socialist Internationalist lover), Xiomara (Hermann's mother and a local drag queen as well), a dwarf, and a false Guatemalan who had raped Chrissy during her internationalist "love/sex campaign" in Guatemala. These are the main, but not the only characters, one must absolutely follow to make sense of the plot.

Действие этой замечательной драмы происходит на социалистической Кубе, где народ все еще наслаждается прелестями режима. Член молодежного, коммунистического союза, простой и недалекий парень, Давид, познакомился с гомосексуалистом Диего, настроенным против системы, увлекающимся искусством и литературой. Воспринявший сначала "голубого" в штыки, Давид постепенно узнает ближе его тонкое, доброе сердце, а когда того за поддержку выставки высылают из страны, расстаются они уже настоящими друзьями.

1925 год. В Москву на международный шахматный турнир приезжает известный кубинский шахматист, сотрудник Министерства иностранных дел Хосе Рауль Капабланка. Поездка в условиях диктатуры Мачадо ставит под сомнение его дальнейшее прибывание на этом посту. В фильме показаны драматические поединки Капабланки с Ласкером, Тартаковером, Боголюбовым, трагическая любовь к балерине Большого театра Саше Можаевой и сеанс одновременной игры, в котором он проиграл совсем еще юному Михаилу Ботвиннику.

The story of students of a high school in Havana in the 60's, where love, politics, and moral contradictions appeared. A shy country boy gets caught between the peer pressure of his buddies and his love for an overweight, strong willed but likable girl.