Director: Enrique Pineda Barnet
Producer: Derubín Jácome
Script: Miguel Barnet,
Enrique Pineda Barnet
Cinematography: Raúl Rodríguez
Edition: Jorge Abello
Music: Gonzalo Romeu, Mario Romeu
Cast: Beatriz Valdés,
Omar Valdés, César Évora, Carlos Cruz, Isabel Moreno

La Habana, 1920. Rachel is a young lady born along with the century, works as a chorus girl in a grotty tent. Her only possibility is to become a prostitute. However, she dreams about being a real artist, and to have just one man to love. Her goal is the Alhambra Theater, a very special only men place that, as Alejo Carpentier said, it was the most perfect expression of theater and Cuban pop music for about 35 years.

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Director: Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Producer: Margarita Alexandre
Script: Alfredo L. del
Cueto, Ramón F. Suárez, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Cinematography: Ramón F. Suárez
Edition: Mario González
Music: Leo Brouwer
Cast: Salvador Wood,
Silvia Planas, Manuel Estanillo

Although this film was produced when Fidel Castro was already in control of Cuba, this movie is a caustic diatribe against the socialist bureaucracy inefficiency, and at the same time, pays honors to Ingmar Bergman, Luis Buñuel, Woody Allen, Harold Lloyd and Laurel and Hardy among others movie’s celebrities.

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Director: Fernando Pérez
Producer: Francisco Herrera, Camilo Vives
Script: Fernando Pérez,
Humberto Jiménez, Eduardo del Llano
Cinematography: Raúl Rodríguez
Cast: Luis Alberto García,
Coralia Veloz, Claudia Rojas, Bebé Pérez, Isabel Santos

Bebé, an 18 years old girl, is happy and she doesn’t understand why the rest of the people aren’t. She tells stories to Mariana, Julia and Elpidio, three characters who aren’t happy living in La Habana of the end of the century.

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Director: Juan Carlos Tabío
Producer: Thierry Forte, Geraro
Herrero, Camilo Vives
Guiónt: Arturo Arango, Senel Paz
Cinematography:: Hans Burman
Edition: Carmen Frías
Music: José María Vitier
Cast: Vladimir Cruz,
Thaimí Alvariño, Jorge Perugorría, Noel García, Alina Rodríguez, Saturnino García

In a bus station, the waiting turns unbearable and everyone fight in order to get a place in the only available vehicle. On this long wait, smaller and greater stinginess arise, which is added to the sorry state of neglect of the place. Then, suddenly fraternity arises, the wish of using the wait in a better way, helping, cooperating, turning that inhospitable place into a nice one

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Director: Orlando Rojas
Producer: José Ramón Pérez
Script: Oswaldo Delgado
Sánchez
Cinematography: Raúl Pérez Ureta
Edition: Nelson Rodríguez
Music: Mario Daly
Cast: Paula Ali, Leonor
Arocha, Fernando Bermúdez, Leonor Borrero

A destiny marked by dark manipulations. A prestigious theatrical group gets ready for a love scene of a well known love tragedy. Mirta, an actress marked by frustration decides to choose between love and success. But her fate is managed by the intrigues of the old and famous director and for the lack of scruples of the younger actors.

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Director: Pavel Giroud, Lester
Hamlet, Esteban García
Producer: Alberto Ciocler, Luis Lago, Caco Ciocler, Camilo Vives
Script: Pavel Giroud, Alejandro
Brugués, Lester Hamlet,
Xenia Rivery, Esteban Insausti
Cinematography: Luis Najmías, Alejandro Pérez
Edition: Lester Hamlet,
David Rodríguez, Angélica Salvador, Damián Font
Music: Pavel Giroud, Edesio Alejandro, Equis Alfonso, Gerardo García

First story: “Flash”: a young photographer shudders because of the strange apparitions in his printing work, while he prepares an exhibition which will give him the definitive impulse to his career. Second story “Lila”: When Lila finds out that her former love is coming back she is seized by her memories. Third story, “Red Light”: two lonely characters replaced their lack of love with sexual fantasies until chance gets them together in a red light.

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Director: Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti
Producer: Camilo Vives, Sara Halioua, Antonio Pérez, Thierry Forte
Script: Manolito Rodríguez
Cinematography: Raúl Rodríguez Cabrera
Edition: Antonio Pérez
Reina, Juan Carlos Cremata
Malberti
Cast: T. Valdes, N. Lugo

Carla must decide between leaving and take care of her business, or stay and keep helping the others.
To leave or to stay, that is the question.

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Director: Humberto Solás
Producer: Aldo Benvenuto,
Francisco Herrera, Luis Lago,
Félix Rodríguez, Camilo Vives
Script: Sergio Benvenuto,
Elia Solís
Cinematography: Porfirio Enríquez, Tote Trenas
Edition: Nelson Rodríguez,
Miguel Ángel Santamaría
Music: Grupo Síntesis, C. Alfonso
Cast: Jorge Perrugorría,
Isabel Santos

Roberto, a Cuban 7 year-old boy, is illegally taken away from his mother and from his country by his father convinced that he will have a better life in Miami. Several years later, after his father death, Roberto decides to go back to Cuba, for the first time. He wants to discover the past he doesn’t know and search for his mother who he never sought again. He wants to meet her again and confront her, because –as his father told him- he believes that she abandoned him.

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Director: Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti
Producer: Eric Brach, Nicolás
Duval-Adassovsky
Script: Manolito Rodríguez,
Juan Carlos Cremata
Malberti
Cinematography: Alejandro Pérez Gómez
Edition: Angélica Salvador
Alonso, Sylvie Landra

Malu and Jorgito had committed themselves to an eternal friendship despite the opposition of their families. When Malu’s grand mother passed away, her mother decided to leave Cuba, but Malu didn’t. Because of that, when Jorgito proposed her to go looking for her father to ask him not to sign the permission to leave the country, she didn’t hesitate, and the two of them runned away in search of a hope.

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Director: Fernando Birri
Producer: Rolando Pardo, Daniela Speranza
Script: Fernando Birri,
Gabriel García Márquez, Julio
García Espinoza, Orlando Senna
Edition: Fabio Pallero

“ZA 2005”, Lo viejo y lo nuevo is not a movie about Zavattini, but inspired by him and focused on his ideology. Combining sequences of some of his more than 4400 student’s thesis, from 45 countries. Shoot between 1986 and 2005 and confronting them with inserts of some “historic” films.
Founders of the new Latin-American cinema. Memory and future. In armonia?, In comparison?, Or mutually ignoring each other?.

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