Koubek Center

LANDRIÁN
2024-04-07 19:15 (America/New_York) | 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).
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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.
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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.

Marco, the Invented Truth
2024-09-27 08:00 - 17:00 | FL
Directed by Aitor Arregi, Jon Garaño
Spain | 2024 | 101 min | Spanish, Catalan, English with English subtitles
Saturday, November 2nd at 5:15pm – Koubek Center
Sunday, November 3rd at 8:00pm – Silverspot Cinema Downtown
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Long: Marco, The Invented Truth is the story of a hugely charismatic man who, for years, served as the speaker of the Spanish association of Holocaust victims, and who kept alive, before the media, within his own association, and even within his own family, a highly complex fabrication: He claimed to be a survivor of a Nazi concentration camp, a fact that turned out to be a shameful lie.
Skillfully directed by Aitor Arregi and Jon Garaño, of The Endless Trench and Handia, they have made a gripping moral thriller inspired by the unbelievable true story of Enric Marco, a man who spent years harboring an unimaginable lie. It stars three-time Goya winner Eduard Fernández, who brings Enric Marco to life, and two-time Goya winner Nathalie Poza in the role of his wife.

Boca Chica
2024-10-29 19:30 | Koubek Center Theater, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
Directed by Gabriella A. Moses
Dominican Republic | 2023 | 97 min | English and Spanish with English subtitles
Tuesday, October 29th at 7:30pm – Koubek Center
Short: In this inspiring Dominican coming-of-age film one young girl’s song gives voice to the unspoken dreams of the women and outsiders in a traditional seaside village.
Long: Twelve year-old Desi struggles to navigate a traditional culture in which familial devotion and tight-knit community coexist uneasily alongside darker customs of sexual objectification and gendered servitude. Though her destiny appears preordained, a serendipitous rendezvous with a group of young street rappers proves much is left unwritten. As she tests her mettle in lyrical battles, Desi’s revelatory stream-of-consciousness flow gives voice to her unspoken dreams and builds her self-confidence, sending ripples of change throughout her family and community.
This inspiring, thought-provoking Dominican coming-of-age feature—which won the Tribeca Film Festival Nora Ephron Award—serves as a powerful reminder that, if infused with the right melody and cadence, words can be spells — incantations that empower us to transcend the restrictive roles assigned us and authentically self-actualize.

Miami Film Festival_2
2024-10-30 - 2024-11-03 | FL
Miami Film Festival GEMS returns Oct 30 – Nov 3 and tickets are on sale now! Explore the program and get your tickets to some of the year’s most anticipated award-season contenders. GEMS is more than just a showcase of incredible cinema – it’s a chance for you to connect with other film lovers and industry professionals in one of the fastest-growing cities for film in the country. Talks, awards, parties… and all happening over Halloween & Día de Muertos weekend!
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The Room Next Door
2024-10-30 19:30 | Koubek Center Theater, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
Directed by Pedro Almodóvar
Spain | 2024 | 106 min | EnglishWednesday, October 30th at 7:30pm – Koubek Center
Short: Legendary Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar’s first English-language feature film stars Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton as friends who have their relationship tested while on a summer holiday.
Long: Ingrid (Julianne Moore) and Martha (Tilda Swinton) were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine once upon a time. Ingrid went on to become an autofiction novelist while Martha became a war reporter, and they were separated by the circumstances of life. After years of being out of touch, they meet again. But the joys of being reunited are tempered when Martha makes a request, one that will test their newly strengthened bond.
In legendary Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar’s first English-language feature film, all of his signature trademarks are on full display. Be it the vibrant color palette seen in Eduard Grau’s lush cinematography, the enviable set design, or his uncanny ability to blend off-beat humor with melodrama, this is an Almodóvar film through and through. But what really sets The Room Next Door apart is the performances from Swinton and Moore. In one of the year’s most inspired pairings, the two beloved actresses bring a pathos and levity to the work, making it a film far more about life – memories, anecdotes, and the things that make our existence worthwhile – than it is about death.
The screening will be followed by the GEMS Opening Night party in the Koubek Center courtyard.

Nightbitch
2024-10-31 19:00 | Koubek Center Theater, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
Directed by Marielle Heller
USA | 2024 | 98 min | English
Thursday, October 31st at 7:00pm – Koubek Center
Short: A woman (Amy Adams) pauses her career to be a stay-at-home mom, but soon her new domesticity takes a surreal turn in Marielle Heller’s biting adaptation of the 2021 bestselling novel of the same name.
Long: A woman (Amy Adams) pauses her career to be a stay-at-home mom, but soon her new domesticity takes a surreal turn in Marielle Heller’s biting adaptation of the 2021 bestselling novel of the same name.
Nightbitch features Adams at her astounding best as a woman who grapples with the swift and drastic difference between her post-baby and pre-baby life. Once a successful artist and curator, she now finds her days to be an endless stream of cooking, cleaning, and playtime. She loves her child, but she can’t help but realize that she’s lost her luster and sense of identity. But you know what they say – when one door closes, another opens. And this door might just resemble a doggy door, as she finds something primal threatening to unleash from within her. Why are her canine teeth looking extra sharp? What’s with her heightened sense of smell? The newly-grown patch of hair on her back? But most of all, it’s her new desires that stand out, backed by a voracious appetite that won’t be ignored.
Wildly relatable and deliciously subversive, Nightbitch is a sharp examination of motherhood, female expectations, and the things we feel but never say.

Bob Trevino Likes It
2024-11-01 18:30 | Koubek Center Theater, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
Directed by Tracie Laymon
USA | 2024 | 102 min | English
Friday, November 1st at 6:30pm – Koubek Center
Short: Can a chance online encounter with a world-weary older man who shares her father’s name re-ignite Lily Trevino’s quirky, love-fueled inner light? With a little faith in rage rooms, scrapbooking, and the interconnectedness of humanity, the answer just might be Yes.
Full: Bob Trevino Likes It is inspired by the true friendship that writer/director Tracie Laymon found with a stranger when looking for her father online. Often playing the role of caretaker to people who should be caring for her, Lily Trevino (Barbie Ferreira) longs for a familial connection, having been abandoned by her mother as a child and then suddenly by her father in her twenties. Bob Trevino (John Leguizamo) works long hours alone at a construction company to support his wife, Jeanie. The couple has endured a lot in the past decade, to the point of ignoring his own feelings and need for connection. That is, until he gets an unexpected Facebook message from a stranger.
Anchored by Barbie Ferreira (HBO’s Euphoria) and John Leguizamo’s heartfelt lead performances, this semi-autobiographical feature from writer/director Tracie Laymon will forever change the way you look at social media, scrapbooking, rage rooms, and the obscured-yet-real interconnectedness of humanity.

¡Casa Bonita Mi Amor!
2024-11-01 21:30 | Koubek Center Theater, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
Directed by Arthur Bradford
USA | 2024 | 90 min | English
Free Screening!
Friday, November 1st at 9:30pm – Koubek Center
Short: A hilarious documentary about the famed Denver restaurant Casa Bonita, and the plans that South Park creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, have to renovate and reopen it.
Long: It was known far and wide as the Disneyland of Mexican restaurants – a labyrinth-like Denver wonderland famous for its 30-foot waterfall and attendant cliff divers, throwback Western theme, massive gorilla mascot, and food that was… not so good. But when COVID-19 forces the legendary Casa Bonita restaurant into bankruptcy, South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone see the opportunity to bring a childhood dream to life, buying the beleaguered landmark with an eye on returning it to its early 1970s glory. Working with famed restaurateur Dana “Loca” Rodriguez to update the menu, and armed with over $8 million for renovations, the pair soon realize that this dream might just be beyond their grasp as they face a deteriorating structure, rapidly aging fixtures, and a spiraling budget. With a projected summer 2023 opening date and the eyes of a nation upon them, Parker and Stone strive to see their vision through in this hilarious ode to the power of creativity and love of community.

Saturn Return
2024-11-02 12:00 | Koubek Center Theater, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
Directed by Isaki Lacuesta, Pol Rodríguez
Spain, France | 2024 | 105 min | Spanish with English subtitles
Saturday, November 2nd at 12:00pm – Koubek Center
Long: Nominated as Spain’s official entry for the 2025 Oscars, Saturn Return is a story of music and passion, with a hypnotic soundtrack.
In the late 1990s, art and culture are at their height in Granada and an indie rock music group is on a quest to record their third LP, which will either propel them to stardom or see them fade into oblivion. Their idea is to have the recording take place in New York, but everything becomes complicated, and the creative process turns into an ordeal. Relationships shatter, rehearsals become self-destructive, and the unbearable pressure from the record label leads to arguments, only interrupted by fleeting moments of happiness. Yet, nobody realizes that they are creating an album that will forever change the music scene for an entire generation.
Inspired by, but not based on, the story of the legendary Spanish band Los Planetas, this beautiful, disruptive drama highlights the complexity in creative work and showcases excellent performances from up-and-coming actors.

Unstoppable
2024-11-02 14:15 | Koubek Center Theater, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
Directed by William Goldenberg
USA | 2024 | 116 mins | English
Saturday, November 2nd at 2:15pm – Koubek Center
Short: Born without a right leg, Anthony Robles was at first an unlikely candidate for a future NCAA wrestling champion to everyone except the one who mattered most: Himself. This all-star cast (Jennifer Lopez, Jharrel Jerome, Michael Peña, Don Cheadle) tells the rousing tale.
Long: Come for the all-star cast (Jennifer Lopez, Michael Peña, Don Cheadle), stay for the true-life inspiration that will remain with you long after the house lights come up—and quite possibly forever change the way you view what is and is not possible.
Born without a right leg, Anthony Robles (portrayed here by Moonlight and When They See Us breakout star Jharrel Jerome) may have at first been an unlikely candidate for a future winner of a NCAA wrestling championship to everyone except the one who mattered most: Himself.
Based on Robles’ 2012 memoir, this official selection of the 2024 Toronto International Film Fest from the team behind the 2023’s Air deftly interweaves heartfelt family drama and rousing mat-centered sports action for a film that champions the potential outsized benefits of both accessibility and positive mental attitude.

La cocina
2024-11-02 20:00 | Koubek Center Theater, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
Directed by Alonso Ruizpalacios
Mexico, USA | 2024 | 139 min | English and Spanish with Spanish subtitles
Saturday, November 2nd at 8:00pm – Koubek Center
Short:
Long: It’s the lunch rush at The Grill in Manhattan, and money has gone missing from the till. All the undocumented cooks are being investigated, and Pedro (Raúl Briones) is the prime suspect. He’s a dreamer and a troublemaker, and in love with Julia (Rooney Mara, Carol), an American waitress who cannot commit to a relationship. Rashid, The Grill´s owner, has promised to help Pedro with his papers so he can “become legal”. But a shocking revelation about Julia compels Pedro to spiral into an act that will stop the production line of one of the city’s busiest kitchens once and for all.
La Cocina is a tragic and comic tribute to the invisible people who keep our restaurants running and our stomachs full, whilst chasing a perhaps unreachable version of the American dream.

HIJOS DE LA DIASPORA
2025-02-21 19:00 | Koubek Center, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
Koubek Center presents HIJOS DE LA DIASPORA
A documentary screening (Spanish film with English subtitles)
Synopsis: From Scotland to Ecuador, passing through Canada, Spain, and Angola, 21 young Cubans who grew up in 9 countries outside the island tell their experiences of adaptation living between two cultures and the survival of the Cuban identity despite their stories of familial rupture and alienation.
Hijos de la Diaspora is a documentary that investigates the persistence of Cuban culture in recent generations of the diaspora. The 21 participants represent different moments and ways of emigrating from Cuba. Several of them have never visited the island or have vague memories. The documentary investigates the experience of having lived between two cultures: the Cuban home and the country where they grew up. Those interviewed have been raised in the US, Canada, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, and Spain, among others.
Director: Lunes Oña
Producer: Ileana Perez Drago and Always Lunes
Sound: Manuel Hernandez
Music: Hilda Oramas, Boris Larramendi, Son de Oro
Length: 60 minutes
Year: December 2023
Director’s Bio:
Lunes Oña is a creative director and filmmaker. He was born and raised in a Cuban household in Madrid, lived in Panama for three years, and moved to Miami in 2017 where he finished high school. He’s a Film, TV, and Digital Production major at SEDT MDC graduating in 2025.
In 2019 Oña founded Always Lunes, a creative community platform recognized by Miami New Times as ‘Best Instagram of Miami 2023’, known for its ‘What’s Up? South Florida’ weekly underground calendar covering Miami and Broward, and recurring self-produced live music underground events.

Miami Film Festival 2025
2025-04-03 - 2025-04-13 | FL
Miami Dade College’s Miami Film Festival is back for its 42nd year to say BIG CHARACTERS DESERVE BIG SCREENS! This year’s Festival (April 3-13) will screen over 200 films from over 45 countries worldwide (including 35 World Premieres!) at venues all over Miami. Celebrity guests include Jason Isaacs (The White Lotus), Melanie Lynskey (Yellowjackets), Paul Feig (Creator, Bridesmaids), Julia Stiles (10 Things I Hate About You), Diego Calva (Babylon), and so many more!
MFF knows Miami is full of energetic, bold, and unique characters who deserve so much more than watching movies at home. This Festival is a celebration—get up, get out, and get in on all these films, parties, celebrity talks, and more! We’ll see you there! Browse the program and get your tickets today
