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- DirectorFernando PérezStarsJorge MartínezGabriela RamosYailene SierraA Cuban man dying of AIDS in Havana.
- DirectorOctavio CortázarStarsPatricio WoodSalvador WoodRené de la CruzIn the early years of the Cuban revolution, a young Havana student volunteers to go to a poor rural region to teach peasants how to read and write; he's sent to the Ciénega de Zapata zone, where squads of anti-Castro guerrilla operate; he happens to teach the wife of a squad leader; trouble and confrontation ensues when government militia makes the little town its operations base.
- DirectorArturo Sotto DíazStarsDaniel AmatUlises AquinoYordanka AriosaThree independent stories linked to a writer's room with imaginative crisis where the people go to tell their stories hoping to someday become famous as a novel characters. A film full of sensuality, irreverence, and hidden passions.
- DirectorJuan Carlos TabíoStarsJorge PerugorríaEnrique MolinaPaula AliIn a poor rural Cuban town, Bernardo's large extended family can just make ends meet. Then they learn about a trial to distribute among the many bearers of their name the proceeds of a pirate treasure which was deposited on a London bank in the Spanish colonial age. Passions soon rise from greed and lust, envy and suspicion, with numerous, often surprising conflicts. The money proves rather elusive, yet irresistible despite grim consequences.
- DirectorHumberto SolásStarsJorge PerugorríaIsabel SantosMario LimontaWhen his father dies, a Cuban man who was raised in the United States, learns that he was not abandoned by his mother but illegally taken out of Cuba. He goes back to the island and is helped in his search by a cousin and a taxi driver.
- DirectorArturo Sotto DíazStarsJorge PerugorríaSílvia ÁguilaSusana PérezThe architecture student Estela (Silvia Aguila) makes a suicide attempt after her plans for solving Havana's housing shortage are rejected. This brings her into contact with earthy, cynical hospital nurse Ernesto (Jorge Perugorria). Estela invites him home for dinner, and he succeeds in offending everyone present. Unable to find a quiet spot to be alone, they finally find a squatters' tenement, where their sexual frenzy causes a ceiling to collapse. They next try vertical love in a stalled elevator, trapping people in the modern building minus stairs. Fleeing responsibilities, they stage a romantic rendezvous alongside a country river, but once again they are interrupted as Cuban commissars arrive with papers and forms because the couple constructs a hut beneath a bridge. Amid the misadventures, lust turns to love
- DirectorJuan Carlos Cremata MalbertiStarsFidel BetancourtAramís DelgadoLaura RamosWhen 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.
- DirectorFernando PérezStarsLuis Alberto GarcíaCoralia VelozClaudia RojasThree characters in present-day Havana must choose between clinging to their self-restricting beliefs, or getting rid of them to live more freely. Ballerina Mariana has promised God celibacy if she gets the role of "Giselle"; Social-worker Julia always faints after hearing a certain word; and pot-smoking percussionist Elpidio was abandoned by his mother, coincidentally named Cuba, some time ago and has not yet gotten over the loss.
- DirectorTomás Gutiérrez AleaJuan Carlos TabíoStarsCarlos CruzMirta IbarraJorge PerugorríaIt is a satire about life in Cuba. The members of a funeral procession and some truck drivers who need to take the same route begin to talk about God and the world and they end up discovering that life for both groups has many similarities and many differences, depending on the point of view.
- DirectorFernando PérezStarsLuis Alberto GarcíaIsabel SantosRené LosadaBefore the military coup in Cuba, a group of people have a clandestine printing press, used to print subversive pamphlets against the government.
- DirectorFrancisco Rodríguez FernándezStarsEmilio Aragón 'Miliki'José Carlos G. CamachoCarlos R. CartayaAn emotive story that touches the heart! A Cuban family leaves the island on a homemade rubber dingy and decides to bravely cross the dangerous stretch from Cuba to Florida in search of freedom. This is a beautiful illustration of a family's struggle to survive with the support of each other! Una pelicula emotiva que llega al corazon! Una familia Cubana decide escaparse de la isla en una balsa casera y cruzar el estrecho peligroso entre Cuba y la Florida en nombre de la libertad. Esta historia es un ejemplo maravilloso de la lucha para sobrevivir apoyado por el amor de una familia.
- DirectorGerardo ChijonaStarsThais ValdésVladimir CruzDaisy GranadosLike her mother before her, beautiful Sissy wants to be a dancer at the Tropicana, Havana's famous cabaret. But her truck driving father, Candido, forbids her to do so because of his ongoing grudge against Armando, his former rival and choreographer at the nightclub. When Candido and his friend Promedio accidentally run Sergito over, Promedio sees the star-shaped mole on the boy's buttock, identical to Candido's. Much to Sissy's delight and to Promedio's dismay for fear of incest, Candido takes the boy home, unaware that Sergito is his son and therefore Sissy's brother. Promedio's worries are confirmed when the two youngsters fall madly in love.
- DirectorPastor VegaStarsDaisy GranadosLaura RamosDoren GranadosAmanda has the gift of prophecy since she was a child. This unique gift causes the interest, fear and rejection of teachers, psychologists, journalists, friends and family.
- DirectorManuel Gutiérrez AragónStarsJorge PerugorríaVioleta RodríguezKiti MánverTres hermanas cubanas llegan a madrid en busca de una situación mejor. En Madrid encuentran a una tía que emigró mucho antes y a oytro cubano que intenta seducirlas y...explotarlas.
- DirectorJuan Carlos TabíoStarsDaisy GranadosThais ValdésRaúl PomaresA superstitious middle-aged woman falls in love with a taxi driver, while trying to learn the identity of the unseen person tossing eggs at her.
- DirectorPastor VegaStarsIdalia AnreusMiguel BenavidesSamuel ClaxtonTeresa is overwhelmed: with a husband, three young sons, a job as a crew leader in a textile factory, and volunteer commitments as cultural leader of her union. Her husband, Ramón, wants more of her attention; her feelings are mixed, wanting domestic peace, feeling responsibilities to the revolution, and wanting to control her own life beyond doing dirty dishes. They separate; he begins an affair. When he wants a reconciliation, she asks what his response would be if she'd had an affair too. "But men are different," is his reply. He's failed her test, and to hold on to independence and self-respect, she remains uncompromising and hard-edged.