Cuban Film Series
New Cuban Cinema
Wednesday August 05, 2009
$7-$10 sliding scale - 7:30pm
Selections from the annual ICAIC New Filmmakers Showcase 2001-2008
Shorts, animation, documentaries and features by Cuba´s new generation of filmmakers, selected by the Instituto Cubano de Arte e Industria Cinematográfico (ICAIC) for La Peña Cultural Center. In Spanish with English subtitles.
"Gozar, comer, partir" (Have a good time, Eat, Leave)
Director: Arturo Infante
Fiction / 2006 / 23 min.
Have a good time, eat, and leave are the three most conjugated verbs in Cuba today. Each is the center of the stories that make up this short film.
"Tres veces dos" (Three Times Two)
Directors: Pavel Giroud, Lester Hamlet, Esteban Insausti
Fiction / 2004 / 84 min.
First story: a young photographer is shaken by strange images appearing in his prints as he prepares the exhibition that will launch his career. Second story: When she learns her teenage love is about to return, Lila is overcome by her memories. Third story: Two solitary characters substitute the absence of love with sexual fantasies until chance unites them at a stop light.
