Koubek Center

HIJOS DE LA DIASPORA
2025-02-21 19:00 (America/New_York) | 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

Silent Partners
2025-04-03 19:00 | Koubek Center Theater, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
Directed by |Jorge “Jokes” Yanes | 2025 | 82 Minutes | English
Logline | Inspired by true events during Miami’s 1980s drug wars. A psychotic hitman realizes his only shot at a free life
would mean hijacking an elaborate insurance scam.
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The Other Way Around (Volveréis)
2025-04-04 18:30 | Koubek Center Theater, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
Directed by | Jonás Trueba | 2024 | 112 Minutes | Spanish
Logline | After 15 years together, a couple throw a party to celebrate their break up. While some are quite skeptical, they
seem to be sure of their decision. Or are they really?
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A House on Fire (Casa en flames)
2025-04-04 21:00 | Koubek Center Theater, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
Directed by | Dani de la Orden | 2024 | 105 Minutes | Catalan, Spanish
Logline | Montse’s weekend with the whole family will be perfect… even if she has to burn everything to the ground to make it so.
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Talking with Chago (Hablando con Chago)
2025-04-05 14:30 | Koubek Center Theater, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
Directed by | Emilio Oscar Alcalde | 2024 | 92 Minutes | Spanish
Logline | An intimate portrait of the Cuban Renaissance man, Santiago “Chago” Rodríguez, about the deep and complex truth
of how memory is reconstructed in exile.
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Cherri
2025-04-05 17:15, 2025-04-12 17:30 | Koubek Center Theater, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
Directed by | Fabián Suárez | 2025 | 82 Minutes | Spanish
Logline | Cherri is an obese gay man who cares for his elderly husband. When he develops a crush on a handsome security guard he gets taken advantage of.
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Adios Cuba
2025-04-05 20:15 | Koubek Center Theater, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
Directed by | Rolando Díaz | 2025 | 96 Minutes | Spanish
Logline | Caridad, a Cuban theater director exiled in Valencia, Spain, is determined to put together a Play about the exodus of Cubans of the Island.
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Espina
2025-04-05 20:15, 2025-04-10 09:00 | Koubek Center Theater, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
Directed by | Daniel Poler | 129 Minutes | Spanish
Logline | Jonathan, a person who used a wheelchair, recruits two unlikely aides for a wild trip to Panama City to settle a long-held grudge.
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A Weird Kind of Beautiful
2025-04-06 14:30 | Koubek Center Theater, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
Directed by | Gabriel Mayo | 2024 | 80 Minutes | English
Logline | After the funeral of their best friend, someone who hasn’t been seen in 8 years shows up and old secrets come to light.
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Chronicles of the Absurd (Crónicas del absurdo)
2025-04-06 17:30 | Koubek Center Theater, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
Directed by | Miguel Coyula | 2024 | 77 Minutes | Spanish
Logline | Artists Lynn Cruz and Miguel Coyula deploy a string of secret audio recordings to expose the intimidation that independent artists in Cuba have to suffer.
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42nd Street
2025-04-06 20:15 | Koubek Center Theater, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
Directed by Jose Maria Cabral | 2025 | 90 Minutes | Spanish
Logline | After the funeral of their best friend, someone who hasn’t been seen in 8 years shows up and old secrets come to light.
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Becoming Vera
2025-04-09 18:30 | Koubek Center Theater, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
Directed by | Sergio Vizuete | 2025 | 87 Minutes | English
Logline | A young pianist battles poverty, unscrupulous music producers and her own insecurities to find a future in the world of Latin Jazz.
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The Python Hunt
2025-04-09 21:00, 2025-04-12 14:30 | Koubek Center Theater, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
Directed by | Xander Robin | 2025 | 91 Minutes | English
Logline | Every year, the Florida government invites the general public to compete in an invasive python removal contest in
the Everglades.
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Cuba's Eternal Night (La noche eterna de Cuba)
2025-04-10 18:30 | Koubek Center Theater, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
Directed by | Jordan Allott | 205 | 66 Minutes | Spanish
Logloine | 5 Cubans are filmed in struggle from government repression, scarcity of food and medicine, and the biggest mass
exodus the island ever experienced.
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The Goldsmith’s Secret (El secreto del orfebre)
2025-04-10 18:45, 2025-04-11 21:00 | Koubek Center Theater, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
Directed by| Olga Osorio | 2025 | 99 Minutes | Spanish
Logline | Goya winner Mario Casas (The Invisible Guest) and Goya nominee Michelle Jenner (Berlín) star in the adaptation of
Elia Barceló’s romance novel.
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Isla Familia
2025-04-11 18:30 | Koubek Center Theater, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
Directed by | Abraham Jimenez | 2024 | 85 Minutes | Spanish
Logline | Documents independent journalist Abraham Jiménez Enoa during the last years of his life, from the Covid
pandemic in Cuba through his political exile.
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Corina
2025-04-12 13:00, 2025-04-13 12:00 | Koubek Center Theater, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
Directed by | Urzula Barba Hopfner | 98 Minutes | Spanish
Logline | A 20-year-old housebound woman accidentally compromises her publishing company’s famous book saga. To save her job she must overcome her fears.
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Two Islands Miami Film Festival
2025-04-13 14:45 | Koubek Center Theater, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
Directed by | Humberto Ochoa | 2024 52 Minutes | Spanish, English
Logline | Five artists from two different cultures, Afro-Cuban and First Nations Aboriginal Australians, collaborate through
music and dance to explore their ancestor’s cultural heritage.
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Segundo Encuentro de Creadores de Cine y Televisión, “De la Idea a la Pantalla 2”
2025-05-19 - 2025-05-23, 2025-05-22 11:00 - 21:00 | FL
El Consulado General de México en Miami, a través de su Instituto Cultural, en colaboración con los Consulados Generales de España y Argentina, así como con el Miami Dade College – Koubek Center, presentan el Segundo Encuentro de Creadores de Cine y Televisión, “De la Idea a la Pantalla 2”. Este evento tiene como objetivo crear una plataforma de diálogo, formación, promoción y vinculación entre creadores audiovisuales en Estados Unidos, México y América Latina.
Miércoles 21 mayo
10:30AM – 12:30PM– Proyección Película “Los Futbolísimos”. Película matinal dirigida a estudiantes de las escuelas de Miami Dade County. Presenta Agregaduría Educación de España.
5:00PM – 6:00PM – Panel con Directores Locales: Retos y Procesos. Modera: PAFF Anuncio de Beca Cinenauta Cristian Proa
6:00PM – 7:00PM – Panel de Coproducción Internacional:
Leo Zimbron (México)
Mónica Aguirre, Secuoya/ Black Sheep Productions (España)
Carla Gómez, Former VIX/Netflix
Jimena Argüelles, Non Stop Studios (México)
Gerardi Brandi, (Argentina)
Modera: Lilliana Moyano
7:30PM – 8:30PM – Panel Talento en Producción:
David Chocarro (Argentina)
Sofía Aragón (México)
Moderadora: Jimena Argüelles
Jueves 22 mayo
11:15AM – 12:00M – Lunch
12:00M – 1:00PM – Panel de Festivales de Cine:
Fernando Arciniega, IFFM
Alberto Sigarroa, MFF
Cristian Ossa, We Cam Fest
1:00PM – 2:30PM – Proyección Película Argentina-Uruguay “La Uruguaya” Film
3:00PM – 4:45PM – Proyección Película España “El Día de la Bestia”
5:00PM – 6:30PM – Proyección de Cortos
6:30PM – 8:00PM – Proyección Película México “Casi el Paraíso”
8:00PM – 8:30PM – Q&A Productores: Juan Curi y Juan Ponce
8:30PM – 9:00PM – Networking (Eventbrite)

Third Horizon Film Festival 2025
2025-05-29 - 2025-06-01 | Koubek Center, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
Almost every year since 2016, THFF has gathered filmmakers, film lovers, and members of our community to experience the art of Caribbean and diaspora cinema through a rigorously curated program of films, visual art, performances, panels, and other related events.
As we continue to find ourselves in an era where a hegemonic establishment seeks to shore itself up to the misrepresentation and exploitation of minority communities in Florida and worldwide, never has it been more necessary to foreground independent filmmaking voices that are unafraid to do what cinema, at its resisting best, does so well: speak truth to power.
And so in curating this year’s THFF, we are making a determined effort, as we always do, to ensure our program reflects the idea of cinema as a socially and politically disruptive tool, both in terms of form and content.

We invite you to join us for an unforgettable weekend of engagement with films by the Caribbean and its diaspora’s most cutting-edge moving-image artists.

SHORTS BLOCK: JUST A DREAM, LIKE ALL OTHERS
2025-05-30 10:00 | Koubek Center, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

Blood ties are centered in these four films, fictional explorations of the often fraught relationships between kith and kin—and one non-fiction twist on the old pledge, til death do us part.
A Q&A with filmmakers whose work appears in this program will follow the screening.

AFTER SUNDAY
By Omolola Ajao | 16 mins | 2024 | Canada
As a young woman takes a hard look into her family’s past, difficult truths begin to surface in the memories of their migrant journey. Within the fragments of differing perspectives, she must sort through past recollections to get to a place of her own fictioning.
THE TOBACCONIST
By Keifer Nyron Taylor | 22 mins | 2024 | United Kingdom
Tobias, an unemployed British-Jamaican personal trainer, sells counterfeit tobacco for his mother who is moving back to Jamaica after deportation threats. One violent encounter with a war veteran, Rough Sleeper, a spectral reminder of his father who also fought as a British subject, turns his quick cash scheme into a haunting odyssey across South London.
SERVICIO NECROLÓGICO PARA USTED (OBITUARY SERVICE FOR YOU)
By María Salafranca | 12 mins | 2024 | Cuba
On the side of the road, in a rural Cuban town, stands a funeral home in which Maurilio and Fidela, partners in work as in life, have been preparing corpses for the past seventeen years. With quietly affectionate humour, Servicio necrológico para usted takes us on an offbeat tour of this discreet establishment where death and love intertwine on a daily basis.
ST. ANDREWS
By Erin Ramirez | 16 mins | 2024 | Jamaica
Coming to terms with her family’s racial prejudice, a Chinese-Jamaican teenager is pushed to carry out a subtle act of defiance—one which may have permanent consequences.

L’OUBLI TUE DEUX FOIS (TWICE INTO OBLIVION)
2025-05-30 12:00 | Koubek Center, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
By: Pierre Michel Jean

Country: Haiti
Language: Kreyòl and Spanish, w/English Subs
Duration: 100 mins
Year: 2024
Genre: Non-Fiction

SYNOPSIS

Haiti and the Dominican Republic share the island of Quisqueya, as well as a hidden genocide. In 1937, Dominican dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo ordered the massacre of over 20,000 Haitian immigrants living in the Dominican Republic. Daphné Ménard, a Haitian theatre director, brings together actors from both parts of the island to work on an unprecedented event, a creative project that demands people from both sides to summon up the darker realms of their histories.
A Q+A with Pierre Michel Jean will follow the screening.

STAGING CINEMA: PERFORMANCE, THEATER, AND CONTEMPORARY CARIBBEAN FILM
2025-05-30 14:15 | FL
In contemporary Caribbean documentary/hybrid/expanded cinema, incorporating performance is more than an aesthetic choice—it is a tool for reckoning with history, collective memory, and political struggle. Whether through theatrical staging, direct address to the camera, or the incorporation of live performance, artists and filmmakers use performance as a means of processing trauma, reclaiming agency, and reshaping dominant narratives.
This panel brings together THFF25 filmmakers Joseph Hillel (Koutkekout), Natalia Lasalle-Morillo (En Parábola/Conversations on Tragedy (Part I)), and Génesis Valenzuela (the live performance A Freedom Struggle: Looking for Lucrecia Perez) to discuss how theater and performance function in their work. How does performance offer a way to navigate political upheaval, displacement, violence, and historical trauma? What is the relationship between performance as catharsis and as resistance? How does collective creation in theater translate to film? And how do artists balance the tension between theatricality and the real in storytelling?
