Koubek Center

Miami Film Festival
2023-11-05 13:30 (America/New_York) | Koubek Center, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
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 together. Sol will come to understand that her world is about to change dramatically, embracing the essence of letting go and cherishing the breath of life.

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Lila Avilés is a Mexican independent film director, screenwriter and producer of award-winning films “The Chambermaid” (2018) and “Tótem” (2023).
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Miami Film Festival
2023-11-05 15:45 | Koubek Center, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
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 Roman to split the money if he agrees to hide it for the duration of his incarceration.
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Rodrigo Moreno is an Argentine film director and screenwriter, born and based in Buenos Aires. Rodrigo Moreno was awarded the Alfred Bauer’s Prize for the most innovative film at Berlinale 2006 for El Custodio.
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Miami Film Festival 2024
2024-01-26 19:00 | Koubek Center, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
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

Film Festival 2024
2024-02-29 19:00 - 21:00 | Koubek Center Theater, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
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 is brought to light in this reconstruction of the 1989 trial and execution of General Arnaldo Ochoa Sanchez, the highest-ranking general and hero of the revolution, and commander of the Angolan and Ethiopian campaigns.

Miami Dade College’s 41st Miami Film Festival!
2024-04-05 - 2024-04-14 | FL
Welcome to the Miami Dade College’s 41st Miami Film Festival! Explore the more than 180 films from more than 30 countries that are in this year’s official selection.
The Festival will take place from Friday, April 5 – Sunday, April 14, 2024.
Tickets on sale to members on Tuesday, March 5, 2024
Tickets on sale to general public on Thursday, March 7, 2024

COPA 71
2024-04-06 12:00 | Koubek Center Theater, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
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 after match. The atmosphere is reminiscent of the greatest moments in international footballing history.
But this is a tournament unlike anything that’s happened before. The players on the pitch are all women. And it’s likely you’ve never even heard of it. This is Copa 71, the unofficial Women’s World Cup. This event has been entirely written out of history. Until now.
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James Erskine is a British screenwriter, film director and producer. The Human Face, which he co-directed, was nominated for the Outstanding Non-Fiction Special Emmy Award in 2002. Rachel Ramsay multilingual filmmaker with strong journalistic experience and specialism in cross-cultural broadcasting for feature documentary, current affairs and factual TV. known for Copa 71 (2023), Le Mans: 3D (2017) and The End of the Storm (2020).
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SEGURIDAD
2024-04-06 15:00 | Koubek Center Theater, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
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 publicity stunt—portrays her troubled relationship with her father in the context of the Cuban Revolution. When Segura accepts a scholarship to study film in Canada, the move offers crucial distance from her alcoholic father. After four years, she returns to Cuba hoping to make amends. But her father’s sudden death just days after her arrival forces Segura to explore his troubled past and the role Cuba’s highly militarized system played in his downfall. Through a series of deeply personal on-camera interviews with her immediate family, Segura unearths long-held secrets that ultimately tell a story of resilience and profound love between family members.
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Tamara Segura is a Cuban Canadian filmmaker who graduated from the International Film School of San Antonio de los Banos, Cuba, an acclaimed institution founded by Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez to help diversify the globe’s cinematic landscape. Segura’s films have been awarded film prizes in Spain, Cuban Canana and Mexico. Recently, Tamara has co-directed Becoming Labrador (2019), a feature-length documentary produced by the National Film Board of Canada that screened at the Closing Night of the Reelworld Festival 2019. Her short film C Sharp and D Suspended (2018), one of the finalists of the CBC Short Film Face Off contest, premiered at the East Coast Reel Gala of the FIN Festival 2018 and is available in CBC Gem.
Sponsored by ArtesMiami, FlixLatino, and Jordan Ressler Foundation.
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VERA AND THE PLEASURE OF OTHERS
2024-04-06 18:00 | Koubek Center Theater, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
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 her distracted mother, who manages different properties, and organises everything. The teenagers come and go, using the apartment for a few uninterrupted hours. Playing invisible, Vera stays behind the closed door; her own sexual desires unfolding as she listens to other people’s pleasure.
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Federico Actis is known for Historias Breves VI (2010), Vera and the Pleasure of Others (2023) and Todo de ti (2001).
Romina Tamburello is known for Vera and the Pleasure of Others (2023), La tabla de los sueños (2012) and La Redonda (2015).
Sponsored by Jordan Ressler Foundation, FlixLatino, and AIDS Healthcare Foundation.
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THE PRACTICE
2024-04-07 12:00 | Koubek Center Theater, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
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 and fellow yoga teacher Vanessa (Manuela Oyarzun) leaves him but keeps their apartment. He injures his knee, robbing him of his usual yogic practice. A revitalizing trip to India is canceled. He’s homeless. Everything is downward facing, heavy on the dog. Could it be, however, that these trials and tribulations are here to teach Gustavo the true meaning of surrender and transcendence?
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Martín Rejtman was born in 1961 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is a director and writer, known for Silvia Prieto (1999), Cropped Head (1992) and The Magic Gloves (2003).
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PUAN
2024-04-07 12:00 | Koubek Center Theater, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
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 chair is a formality, an unexpected rival in the form of the charismatic and seductive Rafael (Leonardo Sbaraglia) arrives from the European universities to challenge him. Suddenly Marcelo has more to worry about than his receding hairline and growing paunch—he’s at risk of losing his very identity. As Marcelo clumsily attempts to win the ensuing absurdist philosophical duel, his life—and country—spiral into chaos.
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María Alché studied film direction in the ENERC (National Film School) from Buenos Aires, Argentina, and graduated in 2010. That internationally prestigious school admits only ten students per field each year.
Benjamín Naishtat was born in 1986 in Buenos Aires, Federal District, Argentina. He is a director and writer, known for History of Fear (2014), Rojo (2018) and The Movement (2015).
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UNION OF KINGS
2024-04-07 15:00 | Koubek Center Theater, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
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 possible with support of ArtesMiami.
After his father suffers a heart attack, David is forced to confront secrets from his father’s past and blood-ties back to his father’s homeland, Cuba.
Director Danny Pino currently stars in Mayans M.C. and made his episodic directorial debut in the fourth season. He is also known for Dear Evan Hansen, Law & Order: Special Victoms Unit, Scandal, The Shield, and Cold Case.
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Danny Pino is an actor and director best known for Cold Case (2003), Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) and Dear Evan Hansen (2021).
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Nicolás Guillén Landrián Retrospective (Shorts Block)
2024-04-07 19:00 | Koubek Center Theater, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
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 Toa (1965)
(16 minutes)
Coffea Arábiga – (1968)
(18 minutes)
Taller de Línea y 18 (1971)
(15 minutes)
Inside Downtown (1991)
Directed by Nicolás Guillén Landrián and Jorge Egusquiza Zorrilla
(30 minutes)
Inside Downtown is the last cinematic work by legendary Cuban filmmaker Nicolás Guillén Landrián. After over 20 years in storage, it has been restored.
The director of Landrian, a documentary on the filmmaker screening afterwards (separate ticket required), Jorge Egusquiza Zorrilla and Nicolás Guillén, Jr. are expected to be in attendance to participate in a post-screening Q&A.
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LANDRIÁN
2024-04-07 19:15 | Koubek Center Theater, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
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 in the 60s and 70s. However, his work was subject to censorship, and he was condemned to ostracism. His imprisonment and the involuntary psychiatric detentions which ruled his life marked an awful fate shared by his own films, which were kept away from the audience and from critics for decades. It was not until 2022 that part of the documentaries of Nicolás Guillén Landrián started to be restored. In the midst of this process, his widow, Gretel Alfonso, and the photographer Livio Delgado looked back on different episodes
Also screening separately is a retrospective series of his documentary shorts, titled Nicolás Landrián Retrospective Shorts.
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Ernesto Daranas Serrano is a multi-award winning Cuban filmmaker. His three feature films have won hundreds of international awards and they have been Cuba’s official submissions to the Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. His documentary Los últimos gaiteros de La Habana won the King of Spain Award. Bluechacha was nominated to a Latin Grammy. Conducta was nominated to the Goya Awards for Best Latin American Film. Sergio & Sergei had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.
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Oceans Are The Real Continents
2024-04-08 19:15 | Koubek Center Theater, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
Jordan Ressler First Feature Award
Director Tommaso Santambrogio 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.
Italian-born director Tommaso Santambrogio opens a poignant new window into the allure, tragedy, hope, and human cost of exile from Cuba sixty-five years after the communist revolution. Shot in elegant, highly stylized black and white and focused on the frozen-in-time Cuban town of San Antonio De Los Baños, a series of stories unfold: Alex (Alexander Diego) and Edith (Edith Ibarra), young artists in love, perfect for each other—except, perhaps, in their plans for the future. An elderly peanut peddler (Milagros Llanes Martinez) revisiting the past through decades-old letters from her dead husband. A pair of little leaguers with New York Yankee dreams. All face the specter of separation while navigating a world they did not create.
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Tommaso Santambrogio was born in 1992 in Italy. He lived and studied between Milan, Paris, Roma and La Havana and he worked with several international acclaimed directors, like Werner Herzog and Lav Diaz. He is known for L’Ultimo Spegne la Luce (2021), Gli Oceani Sono i Veri Continenti (2019) and Escena Final (2019).
Sponsored by Jordan Ressler Foundation, ArtesMiami, and FlixLatino
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WILD WOMAN
2024-04-09 18:45 | Koubek Center Theater, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
Jordan Ressler First Feature
Director Alán González and Actress Lola Amores will be in attendance to participate in a post-screening Q&A.
This film will be preceded by a screening of Blue Pandora, a short film also directed by Alán González
This screening is a part of the Spotlight on Cuba at Miami Film Festival, made possible with support of ArtesMiami.
Wild Woman
In a Havana slum, a forty-year-old woman survives a bloody fight in which her husband almost kills her lover. In a desperate attempt to spare her son from the repercussions of this scandal, she decides to run away with him, but a video of the incident has already gone viral and her mother has fled with him without her consent. For a whole day, she will traverse the city searching for any information about the whereabouts of the boy. Eventually, she will have to confront her mother’s arguments, her son’s fears, the opprobrium of her neighbors, and her own feelings of guilt.
Blue Pandora
Pandora, a 40-year-old transgender woman living in a residential neighbourhood in Havana, rejects Roy, the teenager who tries to win her over. While caring for a neighbour’s child, she gets an unpleasant surprise that makes her consider whether or not to give Roy a chance.
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Alán González is known for Wild Woman (2023), Anthill (2017) and Esther, la vida no para (2008).
Sponsored by Jordan Ressler Foundation, FlixLatino, and ArtesMiami.
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En La Caliente - Tales of A Reggaeton Warrior
2024-04-09 21:15 | Koubek Center Theater, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
Documentary Achievement Award
Director Fabien Pisani 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.
Today, reggaeton is the most popular genre of music among Latinos in Latin America and the United States. Sixty years after Mambo and Cha Cha Cha, and forty years after Salsa, reggaeton reigns as a world-wide symbol of Latino pop culture and as one of the strongest urban cultural trends. In Cuba, a historical hub of Latin music, the reggaeton movement is extremely powerful. However, it’s almost impossible to find reggaeton in record stores, or to hear it on the radio or television. En La Caliente tells the story of how reguetón has become the megaphone of an emerging Cuba against the official discourse.
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Fabien Pisani is known for En La Caliente – Tales of A Reggaeton Warrior, 7 Days in Havana (2011) and Juana Bacallao (2015).
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PUFFING IRON
2024-04-10 19:00 | Koubek Center Theater, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
Made in MIA Feature Award
Directors Chris Rodriguez & Grant Rosado will be in attendance to participate in a post-screening Q&A.
You’ve heard of moms who gain the superhuman strength necessary in a crisis to lift cars off their trapped children? Puffing Iron is sort of like that, only with stoners and making rent. Set during a hot summer in Little Havana, Jamie (Elijah Moseley) and Ace (Bryan Serra) blissfully float through life eating ice cream, watching movies, and smoking weed—until an eviction notice appears. The good news? A fourth place finish in their local gym’s powerlifting competition would cover the housing short…and maybe another eighth. The bad? Their guns are currently more like spitball straws. What begins as a semi-harebrained lark, however, soon becomes more transformative, physically and otherwise. Somewhere along the road from puff to buff lies transcendence.
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Chris Rodriguez is an Argentine-American entrepreneur and film producer, director, and screenwriter. He was born and raised in Miami, Florida along with two older sisters. He graduated with degrees in film production and entrepreneurship from Emerson College, where he co-founded R&R Film Studios as a student. He is one half of the creative duo The Ro Bros.
Grant Rosado is a Cuban-Bosnian filmmaker born in Texas and raised around North America. He is a graduate from Emerson College with degrees in film production and marketing. He has led companies, charity’s, and multiple movie projects. He also has a passion for history and communication. He is one half of the creative duo The Ro Bros.
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IDOL AFFAIR
2024-04-11 19:30, 2024-04-14 12:00 | Koubek Center Theater, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
Made in MIA Feature Award
Directors Teresa Bellón and César F. Calvillo will be in attendance to participate in a post-screening Q&A.
How would you react if your partner confessed to hooking up with your idol? Teresa Bellón and César F. Calvillo ingeniously navigate this unexpected scenario in their captivating debut, a charming romantic comedy inspired by the timeless essence of Rob Reiner’s When Harry Met Sally.
César and Teresa are a happy couple until she has an affair with (real-life) pop singer Coque Malla, César’s idol ever since he was a teenager. César decides he needs to speak to Coque, so the couple travels to Miami in search of the legend, while they reconsider their 17 years together and who they have become.
Featuring the talented duo Alexandra Jiménez and Hugo Silva, this delightful exploration of love promises laughter and serendipitous twists of fate.
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Teresa Bellón and César F. Calvillo are writers, directors, and actors known for Una noche con Juan Diego Botto (2018), Cariño, me he follado a Bunbury (2016) and Rojo Amarillo Rojo (2018).
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BABES
2024-04-12 21:30 | Koubek Center Theater, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
Jordan Ressler First Feature Award
After becoming pregnant from a one-night stand, Eden leans on her married best friend and mother of two, Dawn, to guide her through gestation and beyond, in Pamela Adlon’s feature directorial debut. Adlon is best known for creating and staring in the long-running FX show Better Things. Starring and co-written by Ilana Glazer, who is best known for her work on the show Broad City (which she co-created), Glazer brings her signature and wholly unique brand of comedy to Babes. Crude, crass, and unapologetically feminist, Babes is both a laugh-out-loud romp and truly touching story about friendship and impending motherhood.
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Pamela Adlon is an American actress, writer and director. She is a multiple Emmy award nominee and winner. Babes is her feature directorial debut.
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ANTIHERO
2024-04-13 13:00 | Koubek Center Theater, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
Special Presentation
Director Patricia Juarez 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.
Antihero is a spirited documentary about the life and works of José Manuel Domínguez, and the world of people with disabilities. Domínguez is a blind Cuban writer, actor, and director who produces plays through his organization Antiheroes Project which emphasizes inclusion. Under his direction, Antiheroes Project has rapidly evolved into one of the influential Latinx contemporary arts theater groups in South Florida.
Antihero explores how Domínguez’ artistic work transcends raising awareness about people with disabilities, their challenges, achievements, and shortcomings, and their right to inclusion. The film is directed by first-time filmmaker Patricia Juarez who has skillfully documented one of Miami’s most important artists.
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Patricia Juárez studied Architecture at the University of Juarez, she worked as an architect for some years, then decided her real vocation was acting and writing and moved to Mexico City, where she studied acting and dramatic literature at UNAM and got a diploma in creative writing at SOGEM. She moved to Florida, where worked in theater and Spanish TV, and studied Film Production and Graphic Design at Broward College.
Sponsored by ArtesMiami and FlixLatino.
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RAIN
2024-04-13 15:00 | Koubek Center Theater, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
Jordan Ressler First Feature Award
Director Rodrigo García Sáiz will be in attendance to participate in a post-screening Q&A.
Rain (Lluvia) tells six stories of interrelated characters who transit around Mexico City by a never-ending rain, drowned in misery by the hopelessness of life. Each character comes across an unexpected encounter that makes them glimpse their own souls. They experience a unique, absurd, luminous or awkward moment that reveals who they really are.
Characters include a taxi driver struck by a brutal discovery; a couple who walks a tightrope; an English teacher faced with a traumatic event; a nurse who decides to help an enigmatic patient; a sex worker who sees a face from her past again, and to a young man who is out of bed who crosses paths with a Japanese girl who wanders alone.
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Rodrigo García Sáiz is known for Lluvia (2023), El hombre que murio de rumor (1996) and Un rudo oficio (1996).
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BACK TO LIFE
2024-04-13 18:00 | Koubek Center Theater, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
Marimbas Award
Directors Alfredo Hueck & Luis Carlos Hueck will be in attendance at both screenings to participate in a post-screening Q&A.
A charming film based on true events, Back to Life is from the team behind of the highest-grossing film in the history of Venezuelan cinema Papita, Maní, Tostón, the Hueck Brothers, Luis Carlos and Alfredo.
In the mid-90s Ricardo returns to Caracas after a year in New York. His parents surprise him with a great welcome party and a promising family vacation, but Ricardo prefers to celebrate his return by traveling with his best friends along the beautiful Venezuelan coast. During this trip with his friends, on a paradisiac beach, he feels a sudden pain that will transform his life and that of his family forever.
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Alfredo Hueck is a Venezuelan film producer, editor, writer and director. He is known for his professional debut, [YBI-173], and Package #3(2015), both award-winning.
Luis Carlos Hueck is a film writer and director of Papita MANÍ TOSTÓN, Papita 2nd Base. At the age of 14 he directed his first short film called terremoto, earthquake, and La pelea del Gordo” (The Fat Boy Fight).
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Wicked Little Letters (Preview Night Screening)
2024-04-20 19:00 | Koubek Center Theater, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
Special Presentation
Miami Film Festival PREVIEW NIGHT SCREENING
Date: Wednesday, March 20th at 7:30pm
Location: The Theater at Koubek Memorial Center, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami. FL 33135
A 1920s English seaside town bears witness to a dark and absurd scandal in this riotous mystery comedy. Based on a stranger than fiction true story, Wicked Little Letters follows two neighbours: deeply conservative local Edith Swan (Olivia Colman) and rowdy Irish migrant Rose Gooding (Jessie Buckley). When Edith and fellow residents begin to receive wicked letters full of unintentionally hilarious profanities, foulmouthed Rose is charged with the crime. The anonymous letters prompt a national uproar, and a trial ensues. However, as the town’s women – led by Police Officer Gladys Moss (Anjana Vasan) – begin to investigate the crime themselves, they suspect that something is amiss, and Rose may not be the culprit after all.
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Thea Sharrock is is an English theatre and film director. In 2012, she directed Tom Hiddleston in Henry V as part of the BBC’s miniseries The Hollow Crown. Sharrock’s feature film debut, an adaptation of the novel, was Me Before You (2016) which grossed $207 million worldwide. She directed the 2020 Disney adventure The One and Only Ivan, based on the book of the same name.
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The Padilla Affair
2024-05-16 19:00 | FL
FILM INTRODUCTION AND Q&A SESSION AT THE END WILL BE IN SPANISH WITH PAVEL GIROUD
LA INTRODUCCIÓN DE LA PELÍCULA Y LAS PREGUNTAS Y RESPUESTAS AL FINAL ESTARÁN EN ESPAÑOL CON PAVEL GIROUD

The Padilla Affair
Havana, spring 1971: The poet Heberto Padilla has just been set free and appears before the Cuban Writers’ Union where he pronounces a statement of “heartfelt self-criticism”, declares himself to be a counterrevolutionary agent and throws accusations of complicity at many of his colleagues present at the event, among them, his wife. A month previously, his arrest under the accusation of endangering the security of the Cuban state had mobilised prominent intellectuals all over the world, who wrote a letter to Fidel Castro calling for the release of the poet, whose only sin had been to dissent through his poetic work. The writer’s mea culpa, the recording of which is shown for the first time to the public, marks the narrative line of a story including the testimonies of Gabriel García Márquez, Julio Cortázar, Mario Vargas Llosa, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jorge Edwards and Fidel Castro.

MIAMI NOW
2024-05-28 18:30 | Koubek Center Theater, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
An immersive exploration into the perspectives of local influencers, from artists and entrepreneurs,
to activists and doctors, as they navigate through the city’s challenges and opportunities…

PRIMER ENCUENTRO DE CREADORES DE CINE
2024-05-31 19:00 | Koubek Center Theater, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
El Consulado General de México en Miami, en colaboración con los Consulados Generales de España y Argentina, presentan el “Primer Encuentro de Creadores de Cine”. El evento se llevará a cabo del 28 de mayo al 11 de junio de 2024 en diversas sedes de Miami.
La iniciativa tiene como objetivo fomentar la colaboración y el intercambio cultural entre los creadores de cine de habla hispana en la región, así como promover la diversidad cultural y la riqueza del cine latino en Estados Unidos.
Sinopsis “Matria”
Ramona vive en un pueblo de Galicia sumida en un contexto laboral y personal tenso e impredecible. Siempre sacrificándolo todo por el futuro de su hija Estrella, se verá empujada a mirar hacia dentro y a pensar que, tal vez, haya algo nuevo por lo que vivir.

PRIMER ENCUENTRO DE CREADORES DE CINE
2024-06-07 16:00 | Koubek Center Theater, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
El Consulado General de México en Miami, en colaboración con los Consulados Generales de España y Argentina, presentan el “Primer Encuentro de Creadores de Cine”. El evento se llevará a cabo del 28 de mayo al 11 de junio de 2024 en diversas sedes de Miami.
La iniciativa tiene como objetivo fomentar la colaboración y el intercambio cultural entre los creadores de cine de habla hispana en la región, así como promover la diversidad cultural y la riqueza del cine latino en Estados Unidos.
Sinopsis “Nunca seremos parte”
La nueva relación de su madre con una mujer ha llenado a Emi, una adolescente solitaria, de muchas dudas y resentimientos. Decidida a buscar un cambio, regresa a su ciudad natal para vivir con la nueva familia de su padre y encontrar consuelo al lado de la abuela. Ahí conoce a Gala, la hija de la novia de su papá, cuya originalidad la seduce de inmediato y pone su sexualidad en cuestionamiento. Sin darse cuenta, esta fugaz relación le dará la empatía necesaria para sanar su relación con su madre y la fuerza para seguir su camino.

PRIMER ENCUENTRO DE CREADORES DE CINE
2024-06-07 19:00 | Koubek Center Theater, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
El Consulado General de México en Miami, en colaboración con los Consulados Generales de España y Argentina, presentan el “Primer Encuentro de Creadores de Cine”. El evento se llevará a cabo del 28 de mayo al 11 de junio de 2024 en diversas sedes de Miami.
La iniciativa tiene como objetivo fomentar la colaboración y el intercambio cultural entre los creadores de cine de habla hispana en la región, así como promover la diversidad cultural y la riqueza del cine latino en Estados Unidos.
Sinopsis “Mephisto”
Helena es una chica que vive en un pueblo de los Estados Unidos, alejada de los suburbios. Tras sufrir el asesinato de sus padres, Helena navega entre visiones, el luto, y los sueños. En soledad, Helena revive episodios de su pasado que la hacen reflexionar sobre la perdida, el tiempo, la violencia social, y la desaparición de personas que parece, fueron olvidados. Tras un encuentro con el asesino de sus padres, Helena tendrá que huir de su lugar de origen, abandonando todo lo que conocía, esto la hará seguir el rastro de una mujer asesinada, que busca en helena una conexión que las haga liberarse a ambas. Con la ayuda de una anciana indígena, y el encuentro con maestros espirituales que guiaran su camino, Helena llega a una tierra llena de símbolos, rituales, y misticismo. Una tierra que aunque desconoce, ha sentido como suya desde siempre. Ahí comienza un camino hacia la exoneración del dolor que la habita. Lo que comienza como un thriller psicológico, va mutando a una pieza dramática intimista, sobre la vida y la muerte, el pasado y las heridas, la percepción de otras realidades que se ignoran, el destino y la redención.

Cine y Literatura 2024 con la película "La tregua"
2024-08-08 19:00 | FL
La Feria del Libro de Miami del Miami Dade College, el Consulado de la República Argentina en Miami, el Consulado de la república Oriental del Uruguay en Miami y la Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española invitan a la proyección del filme La tregua (1974), de Sergio Renán, sobre una obra de Mario Benedetti, la primera película nominada al Oscar como mejor película extranjera.
MDC Koubek Center (2705 SW 3rd St. Miami, Fl 33135)
Jueves 8 de Agosto, 7:00 p.m.
Entrada y Estacionamiento gratuito.
