Film

Tótem TÓTEM is a choral film about life. Seven-year-old Sol spends the day at her grandfather’s home, helping her aunts Nuri and Alejandra with the preparations for a surprise party they are throwing for Sol’s father, Tonatiuh. As daylight fades, a strange and chaotic atmosphere takes over, shattering the bonds that hold a family [...]

The Delinquents Moran works as a clerk in a bank in Buenos Aires. He is as good as invisible to his colleagues. Over dinner with his colleague Roman, Moran tells him that he stole $650k, double what he would have made until his retirement. He plans to turn himself in, but not before offering [...]

Miami Dade College’s Cuban Cinema Series resume, presented by Miami Film Festival at the Koubek Center Series launches with a tribute to León Ichaso and Orlando Jiménez Leal with screenings of: El Super screening on January 26th at 7:30 PM

The successful Cuban Cinema Series, founded and directed by film critic Alejandro Ríos since 1993 at Miami Dade College, continues its performances at the Koubek Center with the film 8 – A by cuban director  Orlando Jimenez Leal on Thursday February 29th at the Koubek Center. The Kafkaesque world of Cuba under Castro's rule [...]

Special Presentation It is August 1971. Football teams from England, Argentina, Mexico, France, Denmark and Italy are gathering at Mexico City’s Azteca Stadium. The scale of the tournament is monumental: lavish sponsorship, extensive TV coverage, and crowds of over 100,000 hollering fans turn this historic stadium into ‘a cauldron of noise and heat’ match [...]

Jordan Ressler First Feature Award Director Tamara Segura will be in attendance to participate in a post-screening Q&A. This screening is a part of the Spotlight on Cuba at Miami Film Festival, made possible with support of ArtesMiami.  In her feature documentary Seguridad, Newfoundland-based filmmaker Tamara Segura—once named “Cuba’s youngest soldier” in a militia [...]

Jordan Ressler First Feature Director Romina Tamburello and Producer Santiago King will be in attendance to participate in a post-screening Q&A. 17-year-old Vera divides her days between volleyball, school, and a secret hobby: she rents out an empty apartment to teenagers looking for a place to have sex. She steals the keys from [...]

Special Presentation You can’t always om your way out of life. Such is the lesson of this funny, philosophical film from Argentinian writer/director Martín Rejtman about a man named Gustavo (Esteban Bigliardi) who has devoted his life to zen, but is nonetheless served up chaos by the universe and its human minions: His wife [...]

Marimbas Award Think an ordinary existential midlife crisis is hard? Try having one as an aging philosophy professor! Such is the burden Marcelo (Marcelo Subiotto) must carry in Puan when, after a lifetime of teaching philosophy at the Public University of Buenos Aires, his mentor dies unexpectedly. Though Marcelo believes his ascension to department [...]

Your Content Goes Here Special Presentation The screening will be preceded by the short film Objects of Desire (Objetos de Deseo), directed by Alejandro Renteria Director Danny Pino will be in attendance to participate in a post-screening Q&A. This screening is a part of the Spotlight on Cuba at Miami Film Festival, made [...]

Remastered shorts from the pionerring Cuban filmmaker Nicolás Guillén Landrián, including the world premiere of the remastered Inside Downtown.   This screening is a part of the Spotlight on Cuba at Miami Film Festival, made possible with support of ArtesMiami.  En un barrio viejo (1963) (6 minutes) Los del baile (1965) (9 minutes) Ociel del [...]

Documentary Achievement Award Director Ernesto Daranas Serrano and Screenwriter Ania Molina are expected to be in attendance to participate in a post-screening Q&A. This screening is a part of the Spotlight on Cuba at Miami Film Festival, made possible with support of ArtesMiami.  Nicolás Guillén Landrián was one of the most pioneering Cuban filmmakers [...]