Within the programming cycle of Casa de América, No por corto menos cine, is presented from tomorrow Wednesday at 6.30 pm, the show Cuba: visions of a fragmented island, which presents a selection of recent films by Cuban filmmakers based in Spain.
The short films Souvenir (Heidi Hassan), La historia se escribe de noche (Alejandro Alonso), El espacio roto (Gabriel Alemán, Eduardo Eimil) and Cuatro hoyos (Daniela Muñoz) will be screened, followed by a discussion with the filmmakers.
Approaching today’s Cuba is finding a hidden country beyond its geographical limits. The short films that make up this session, all released during the last year, are just four fragments of a national landscape that is becoming more complex and fragmented.
Based on a wide range of cinematographic strategies (the self-referential essay by Souvenir; the experimental dystopia of La historia se escribe de noche; the genre fiction of El espacio roto; the interactive documentary in comedy key of Cuatro hoyos), these works explore essential issues of the contemporary Cuban experience: the acute social and political crisis that the country is going through; the ideological fetishism towards the Cuban Revolution; the crisis of values within the family; migration and the unexpected encounters it brings about.
This screening also represents a new opportunity to appreciate the richness and inventiveness of Cuban independent cinema, as well as an advance of the film program of the V INSTAR Film Festival, It will take place from 28 October to 3 November in several cities around the world, including Madrid and Barcelona. Tickets will be distributed one hour before the start of the screening. Free admission until 50 seats are filled.
