Koubek Center

SHORTS BLOCK: WHY DOES THE AIR TREMBLE?
2025-05-31 10:00 (America/New_York) | Koubek Center, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

Filmmaking as process is at the heart of these five films, memorably imaginative attempts at working through a variety of themes, and towards new ways of understanding.
A Q&A with filmmakers whose work appears in this program will follow the screening.

NOBODY’S WORD
By Camara Taylor | 13 mins | 2025 | Barbados, Jamaica, UK
A family convenes exactly 500 years after Charles V grants permission to Lorenzo de Gorrevod “to import 4000 Africans into New Spain.” The King’s act marks the escalation of a rupture, with its origins in 1492, that remakes the world and reverberates into the present. This apparent “start of slavery” becomes an occasion to tell the story of one family’s implication across time and space. In nobody’s word, the family archive is digitised and disintegrated in order to reframe accounts, destabilise claims, and inhabit spaces between fact and fiction, questioning the narrative impulses that inform the stories we tell.
LOS CONJURADOS
By Humberto Gonzalez Bustillo | 9 mins | 2025 | Venezuela
A lone cyberflâneur stumbles upon a hidden corner of Google Maps, a forgotten place unfolding in the static. Shadows pace aimlessly, paths dissolve into nowhere, and figures flicker in and out of existence—fragments of untold stories. A shattered, distorted voice lingers, unrelenting, signaling borders and exile, both imagined and imposed. Still, the search goes on, endless.
LA SELVA OSCURA (DARK FOREST)
By Lucía Malandro and Daniel Saucedo | 15 mins | 2024 | Cuba, Spain
La selva oscura is a record of a long journey connecting two funeral rituals in Cuba: the state burial honoring those who fell in the Angola war and a spiritist ceremony welcoming spirits of the past back into the world of the living. These events, captured by Cuban amateur documentaries filmed in 1987, intertwine to form the core of this film, whose central reflections revolve around loss and oblivion.
NADA FUERA DE LA ISLA: PUENTES (NOTHING OUT OF THE ISLAND: BRIDGES)
By Dalissa Montes de Oca | 16 mins | 2024 | Dominican Republic
Fragmented memories and visions find a home in light and shadows, bridging the gap between the past, the present, and the loss of a mother.
PURO ANDAR
By Luciana Decker Orozco | 13 mins | 2025 | Bolivia
A journey to the underworld begins within our own entrails, shaped by the flesh we consume and the softened crumbs moistened by the saliva of mothers. This film explores the becoming of different times, from the intimate rhythm of digestion to the vast expanse of geological eras: stalagmites formed over millennia, fossilized dinosaur tracks, and the echoes of primordial movements, akin to growling. The film is inspired by the chapter “Puro Andar” from El Pez de Oro by Gamaliel Churata, which states that “we all carry the dead alive; that the dead live.”

TRUE CHRONICLE OF THE BLIDA JOINVILLE PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL IN THE LAST CENTURY, WHEN DR FRANTZ FANON WAS HEAD OF THE FIFTH WARD BETWEEN 1953 AND 1956
2025-05-31 12:00 | Koubek Center, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
By: Abdenour Zahzah

Country: Algeria, France
Language: Arabic, French w/English Subs
Duration: 90 mins
Year: 2024
Genre: Fiction

SYNOPSIS

1953, colonized Algeria. Frantz Fanon, a young black psychiatrist from Martinique, is appointed head doctor at the Blida-Joinville Hospital. As he puts his theories of “institutional psychotherapy” into practice in opposition to the racist theories of the Algiers School of Psychiatry, a war breaks out on his own wards.
A Q+A with Abdenour Zahzah will follow the screening.

SCREENING THE STRUGGLE: CARIBBEAN ACTIVIST CINEMA REGAINED
2025-05-31 14:15 | Koubek Center, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
This panel explores Caribbean heritage cinema as a tool for resistance, community action, and historical documentation. Centered on the films in the THFF25 retrospective You Don’t Get Freedom, You Take Freedom: Caribbean Activist Cinema 1978–1985, this discussion will examine the socio-political landscapes that shaped these films, the often collective filmmaking practices behind them, and seek to situate the films within the current moment.
Through the perspectives of filmmakers, activists, and researchers involved in the making and restoration of the films—namely, Women of Suriname (1978), Bitter Cane (1983), Sweet Sugar Rage (1985), and West Indies (1979)—we will investigate the material conditions of Caribbean working people, past and present, and the ways these films engaged with themes of (neo) colonialism, capitalism, immigration, and collective struggle. Additionally, panelists will explore the challenges of film restoration, the question of preserving politically radical works, and what it means to reclaim this history for contemporary movements.
This program is supported by: Dutch Culture USA at the Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and The Netherland-America Foundation

EN PARÁBOLA/CONVERSATIONS ON TRAGEDY (PART I)
2025-05-31 15:30 | Koubek Center, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
By: Natalia Lassalle-Morillo

Country: Puerto Rico
Language: English and Spanish w/English Subs
Duration: 63 mins
Year: 2024
Genre: Non-Fiction

SYNOPSIS

En Parábola/Conversations on Tragedy (Part I) is a reassemblage of the Greek myth of Antigone in collaboration with a cast of non-professional actors who reside in New York City’s Puerto Rican diasporic community. Developed through a multi-year process of collaborative theatrical rehearsal and experimental filmmaking, the work emerged through the cast’s revising, re-writing, and performing of the myth of Antigone inspired by their lived and inherited experiences of migration and belonging. Taking the form of a multi-channel film, En Parábola/Conversations on Tragedy (Part I) seeks to connect these communities after decades of geographical fragmentation, colonial erasure, dispossession, and cumulative environmental, economic, and political tragedies.
A Q+A with Natalia Lassalle-Morillo will follow the screening.

BITTER CANE
2025-05-31 17:30 | Koubek Center, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
By Ben Dupuy and Kim Ives | 77 mins | 1983 | Haiti
Filmed clandestinely under the Duvalier dictatorship, Bitter Cane, presented at THFF25 in a brand new restoration, is an incisive documentary interrogation of the exploitation and domination of the Haitian people. From peasant coffee farms in the rugged tropical mountains to steamy foreign-owned sweatshops in the capital, Port-au-Prince, the film takes the viewer on a journey through Haitian history to a deeper grasp of the country’s political economy today. The film explores the Haiti of the 1980s, a perspective that helps the viewer to better understand the crises that wrack the country now. Bitter Cane shows how foreign capitalists were beginning to drive peasants off the land and into the cities, creating giant shanty towns which have spawned crime, dislocation, and anarchy. Today, 40 years later, we are seeing the culmination of this socio-economic upheaval, which has left the country facing its third foreign military occupation in three decades.

BITTER CANE
2025-05-31 17:30 | Koubek Center, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
By: Ben Dupuy, Kim Ives

Country: Haiti
Language: Kreyòl, French, and English, w/English subtitles
Duration: 77 mins
Year: 1983
Genre: Non-Fiction

SYNOPSIS

Filmed clandestinely under the Duvalier dictatorship, Bitter Cane, presented at THFF25 in a brand new restoration, is an incisive documentary interrogation of the exploitation and domination of the Haitian people. From peasant coffee farms in the rugged tropical mountains to steamy foreign-owned sweatshops in the capital, Port-au-Prince, the film takes the viewer on a journey through Haitian history to a deeper grasp of the country’s political economy today. The film explores the Haiti of the 1980s, a perspective that helps the viewer to better understand the crises that wrack the country now. Bitter Cane shows how foreign capitalists were beginning to drive peasants off the land and into the cities, creating giant shanty towns which have spawned crime, dislocation, and anarchy. Today, 40 years later, we are seeing the culmination of this socio-economic upheaval, which has left the country facing its third foreign military occupation in three decades.
A Q+A with Kim Ives will follow the screening.
Bitter Cane screens at THFF25 as part of the retrospective program You Don’t Get Freedom, You Take Freedom: Caribbean Activist Cinema 1978–1985.
To read more about the restoration process of Bitter Cane, click HERE.

LA BACHATA DE BIONICO (BIONICO’S BACHATA)
2025-05-31 20:00 | Koubek Center, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
By: Yoel Morales

Country: Dominican Republic
Language: Spanish w/English Subs
Duration: 80 mins
Year: 2024
Genre: Fiction

SYNOPSIS

A raw vision of love in a hostile Caribbean city, Bionico’s Bachata is a mockumentary that follows a hopeless romantic, addicted to crack, who must take control of his life if he wants to marry the woman he loves.
A Q+A with Yoel Morales will follow the screening.

SHORTS BLOCK: YOUR HANDS WERE BUILT FROM MEMORY
2025-06-01 10:00 | Koubek Center, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

Ancestral echoes reverberate across the films in this programme, embodying various forms of resistance and resilience, from the Florida Everglades to a Jamaican sugar plantation to the Amazon rainforest.
A Q&A with filmmakers whose work appears in this program will follow the screening.

REDEMPTON (AN EXPERIENCE IN THREE PARTS)
By Mariana Luiza | 3 mins, 10 mins, 16 mins | 2023 | Brazil
Is it possible to redeem a nation that once sought to exterminate the majority of its people?
In 1911, Brazil presented an audacious plan at the First Universal Congress of Races in London: to become a predominantly white nation within a century, exterminating Black and mestizo people within three generations, and transforming into a fully white country by 2012. The painting Ham’s Redemption (1895), by Modesto Brocos, exhibited during the congress, symbolized Brazil’s racial whitening ideology.
Over 110 years later, Redemption critically examines Brazil’s whitening policy, providing a counter-colonial response. The film, presented in three acts, revisits this history through archival imagery and symbolism, exposing the lasting impact of eugenicist ideologies. At its core, it challenges the narrative of Ham’s Redemption, replacing the imposed vision of racial erasure with one that honors ancestral knowledge and the resilience of Black and Indigenous communities.
HIJA DE FLORINDA (FLORINDA’S DAUGHTER)
By Shenny De Los Ángeles and Amanda Morell (iiritu) | 12 mins | 2025 | USA
Through a series of black-and-white tableaux, this poetry film follows the journey of Young Naomi in Everglades, Florida. She learns from Florinda, her grandmother, about the ancestral practices of caring for the land and nurturing grief in the face of environmental challenges. As the story unfolds, we grow to understand Florinda’s indigenous teachings of controlled burns and the importance of embracing fire rather than suppressing it. As the prescribed burns ignite from Florinda’s hands, an archival portal is birthed.
REDEMPTON (PART II)
By Mariana Luiza | 3 mins, 10 mins, 16 mins | 2023 | Brazil
LAS, FIYA (LAST, FIRE)
By Kat Anderson | 25 mins | 2024 | Jamaica, UK
Las, Fiya (Last, Fire) is a fictional short film that uses the horror genre to explore the subjects of ancestral trauma, dispossession, and the power of return/retrieval. Shot largely on an existing sugarcane farm in Jamaica, the film weaves historical methods of harvesting sugarcane and sugar production with the cinematic concept of the “origin story”. At the film’s center is Lil, a solo traveller, who is led by a spirit to a rural cane farm and reborn as a super-villain. A trans-dimensional evil entity preys upon a group of unsuspecting tourists, with their fate being revealed in a final heightened scene, where all are gathered on the cane farm for “reaping time.”
REDEMPTON (PART III)
By Mariana Luiza | 3 mins, 10 mins, 16 mins | 2023 | Brazil

SUGAR ISLAND
2025-06-01 12:00 | Koubek Center, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
By: Johanné Gómez Terrero

Country: Dominican Republic, Canary Islands
Language: Spanish w/English Subs
Duration: 90 mins
Year: 2024
Genre: Fiction

SYNOPSIS

Makenya leaves behind fun and dancing with her friends in search for work, after an unwanted pregnancy confronts her with sudden adulthood. The teenager lives alongside her grandfather and mother in the Batey, a Dominican-Haitian community of sugarcane workers. The mother is a servant of the Mysteries within the 21 divisions of Afro-Dominican spirituality, and the grandfather is an activist for pension rights. The mechanization of the sugar industry threatens to displace them without compensation. Meanwhile, in a parallel and Afro-futuristic dimension, Makenya reunites with her friends. In a theatrical exercise, they read documents from the colonial era, recall the black uprisings on the island, and recover ancestral knowledge that forms a sort of anti-racist and decolonial manifesto. Photo by Dilia Oviedo.
A Q+A with Johanné Gómez Terrero will follow the screening.

RECKONING AND REPAIR: REPRESENTING TRAUMA AND (POST)COLONIAL VIOLENCE
2025-06-01 14:15 | Koubek Center, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
How can cinema serve as an act of healing, and/or reckon with the consequences of violence? This panel explores the ways filmmakers engage with the long-term psychological effects of colonialism, state violence, and personal loss. Rather than focusing on direct representations of violence, films like Kouté vwa, True Chronicle of the Blida Joinville Psychiatric Hospital in the Last Century, and Twice into Oblivion center on the aftermath—the lingering trauma, the institutional responses (or lack thereof), and the individual and communal processes of healing.
From the genocidal killing of Haitians in the Dominican Republic in 1937 to Frantz Fanon’s psychiatric work in colonial Algeria to a mother’s grief in French Guiana today, these films meditate on violence and trauma within particular (post) colonial contexts. They also raise ethical questions: How do filmmakers depict trauma without re-traumatizing their audiences or their subjects? What does it mean to tell stories of pain while leaving space for catharsis, resistance, or repair? This conversation will examine the role of cinema in confronting historical violence while fostering new possibilities for healing.

SHORTS BLOCK: DEPOSITED IN THIS LAND OF STRANGERS
2025-06-01 17:15 | Koubek Center, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

Employing a variety of cinematic forms and strategies, the five films in this programme engender lingering, often poetic diasporic dialogues—between here and there, then and now.

BISAGRAS
By Luis Arias | 16 mins | 2024 | Senegal, Brazil, USA
“Bisagras” is a film exploring the enduring here and elsewhere of black consciousness. Finding a connection through the film’s emulsion and my skin, Bisagras holds my experience as a person of Afro-Caribbean descent during a visit to the House of Slaves in Gorée Island, Senegal and the port of Salvador de Bahia, Brazil. In these places I dare to imagine my ancestors’ history of the journey of African slaves to America and draw a line that goes through me.” – Luis Arnías
WE DEH HERE
By Maybelle Peters | 7 mins | 2025 | UK
We Deh Here traces the relationship between Scotland and Guyana through photography, sewing, genealogical research, and matrilineal lines. Combining stills of historical sites in Edinburgh and the Scottish Highlands with audio conversations between the artist and her mother, the film investigates and speculates on their interconnection as an expression of British and Scottish colonialism.
BLUE HEART
By Samuel Suffren | 15 mins | 2025 | Haiti
Marianne and Pétion live in Haiti and wait impatiently for a call from their son in the USA. As silence sets in, their fears and worries grow, revealing the fractures in their own lives. The promise of the American dream now seems to elude them, as the line between hope and reality becomes increasingly blurred.
YOULOGY/NO GHOSTS
By Darryl Daley | 8 mins | 2023 | UK
Youlogy / No Ghosts explores cyclical motifs of arrival and departure through the artist’s grandmother’s migration to the United Kingdom and her posthumous return to Jamaica, creating a transcendental frame where memory and time merge. In this speculative space, the film navigates beyond the confines of mortality, reimagining a future where inherited stories resist linearity.
A RIVER HOLDS A PERFECT MEMORY
By Hope Strickland | 17 mins | 2024 | Jamaica, UK
“The original premise of a river holds a perfect memory was based on a series of labor protests in January 2016, St Elizabeth, Jamaica that highlighted the complex, racio-colonial capitalist logics that continue to shape the use of Black River. Rivers fascinate me for myriad reasons: they hold within them the poetics of collapsed time and diasporic memory, alongside complex flows of resource and labor extraction. Spending time researching reservoirs and industry in the North of England and rivers with my extended family in Jamaica, the more these worlds seemed to swirl and eddy together.” – Hope Strickland

WEST INDIES: THE FUGITIVE SLAVES OF LIBERTY
2025-06-01 19:30 | Koubek Center, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
By Med Hondo | 116 mins | 1979 | Mauritania, Algeria, France
Mauritanian French director Med Hondo’s West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty, presented at THFF25 in a new restoration, proved a watershed event for African cinema—the continent’s first musical as well as a sui generis amalgam of historical epic, Broadway revue, Brechtian theater, and joyous agitprop. Using an enormous mock slave ship as the film’s only soundstage, Hondo mounts intricately choreographed reenactments and dance numbers across his multipurpose set to investigate more than three centuries of imperialist oppression. The story traverses the Caribbean, Europe, Africa, and the Middle Passage; jumps across time to depict the effects of official French policy upon the colonized, the enslaved, and their descendants; and surveys the actions and motivations of the resigned, the revolutionary, and the powers that be (along with their lackeys). No mere extravaganza, West Indies is a call to arms for a spectacular yet critical cinematic reimagining of an entire people’s history of resistance and struggle.

WEST INDIES: THE FUGITIVE SLAVES OF LIBERTY
2025-06-01 19:30 | Koubek Center, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
By: Med Hondo

Country: Mauritania, Algeria, France
Language: French w/English Subs
Duration: 116 mins
Year: 1979
Genre: Fiction

SYNOPSIS

Mauritanian French director Med Hondo’s West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty, presented at THFF25 in a new restoration, proved a watershed event for African cinema—the continent’s first musical as well as a sui generis amalgam of historical epic, Broadway revue, Brechtian theater, and joyous agitprop. Using an enormous mock slave ship as the film’s only soundstage, Hondo mounts intricately choreographed reenactments and dance numbers across his multipurpose set to investigate more than three centuries of imperialist oppression. The story traverses the Caribbean, Europe, Africa, and the Middle Passage; jumps across time to depict the effects of official French policy upon the colonized, the enslaved, and their descendants; and surveys the actions and motivations of the resigned, the revolutionary, and the powers that be (along with their lackeys). No mere extravaganza, West Indies is a call to arms for a spectacular yet critical cinematic reimagining of an entire people’s history of resistance and struggle.
We are pleased that THFF alumna filmmaker Annabelle Aventurin, who oversaw the restoration of West Indies, will be present for a special introduction to the film.
West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty screens at THFF25 as part of the retrospective program You Don’t Get Freedom, You Take Freedom: Caribbean Activist Cinema 1978–1985.

Cine y Literatura
2025-07-24 19:00 | Koubek Center Theater, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
La Feria del Libro de Miami del Miami Dade College, el Consulado de la República Argentina en Miami y la Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española invitan a la proyección del filme De navíos, ron y chocolate, con la presencia de la directora venezolana Malena Roncayolo y la escritora Elisa Arraiz.
A partir de finales del siglo XVIII, inmigrantes italianos y franceses, principalmente corsos, comenzaron a establecerse en Venezuela, siendo Carúpano su primer asentamiento. Estas oleadas migratorias se extendieron por el oriente del país, el estado Bolívar, el Zulia y algunas zonas andinas, dedicándose principalmente a la agroindustria del cacao, el café y la caña de azúcar, y más tarde, a la extracción de oro. Los corsos realizaron valiosos aportes al desarrollo de las ciudades y puertos, y sus descendientes han destacado en la cultura, la ciencia, la economía, la política y la diplomacia venezolana. Este documental explora las regiones de Venezuela donde se asentaron, así como sus lugares de origen en Córcega y Marsella, revelando las semejanzas culturales y el mestizaje entre ambos pueblos.
Adriana Bianco
Actriz, escritora y periodista argentina. Radica en Miami. Graduada de Filosofía y Letras, tiene un posgrado en Literatura latinoamericana por la Sorbonne de París. Ha publicado Borges y los otros(Planeta, Argentina), Aventuras de Lupita y Beto (Editorial Progreso, México) y Miami habla (escrito con Rafael Cerrato; Miami). Ha recibido varios galardones por su labor periodística. Tiene una destacada trayectoria como actriz en Argentina. Recibió en 2004 el Premio Cóndor de Plata. También le fue concedido el Premio de la Municipalidad de Buenos Aires y el de La mujer y el cine. Entre otras películas, ha actuado en El ojo que espía (1952), Mi marido hoy duerme en casa (1955) y El primer beso (1958).
Malena Roncayolo
Malena Roncayolo ha trabajado en la industria audiovisual durante 32 años como guionista, directora de arte, productora y directora de largometrajes, documentales, comerciales, videos artísticos y contenido institucional. Tras Casa Tomada, un mediometraje premiado internacionalmente, dirigió Pacto de Sangre, su primer largometraje. Dirigió y produjo una serie documental para televisión de seis partes sobre inmigración, dos documentales internacionales sobre arte y dos documentales sobre derechos humanos y violencia contra la mujer. Su largometraje documental ¿Premio Nobel de la Paz? recibió reconocimiento en el Festival de Cine de Terror de Italia. También dirigió la película para televisión La Gloria de Mamporal y el largometraje Acosada en Lunes de Carnaval. Es guionista, directora y productora del largometraje documental De Navíos, Ron y Chocolate. Su trabajo se ha presentado en festivales de Venezuela, España, Francia, Italia, Filipinas, Argentina, Brasil, Colombia y Estados Unidos, donde ha ganado premios y reconocimientos. Actualmente trabaja como guionista y directora del proyecto La Chica del Tiempo, que se encuentra en desarrollo para su producción en México o Colombia. Es coautora del guion de largometraje “Zuass, se fue la luz”. Recientemente escribió otro guion de largometraje titulado “La Conspiración del 202”, y produjo y dirigió dos documentales: “Oro de Sangre” y “Salvando a Citgo”.

Gems 2025
2025-10-29 - 2025-11-05 | Koubek Center, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
Miami Film Festival GEMS returns to theaters across Miami Oct 29–Nov 5

Catch over 40 of the year’s most anticipated films before anyone else!

Special guests include Lucy Liu, Ethan Hawke, Dylan O’Brien, Gus Van Sant, Park Chan-wook and more!

Browse films and get your tickets now!

No Other Choice - Q&A with Park Chan-
2025-10-29 18:00 | Koubek Center Theater, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
Director: Park Chan-wook
Language:Korean
Country: South Korea
Join legendary director Park Chan-wook (Oldboy, The Handmaiden, Decision to Leave) in person as we honor him with MiamiFilm Festival’s Precious Gem Master Award at our Opening Night screening of his latest satirical masterpiece, No Other Choice.
With shades of Parasite, Director Park tackles corporate ruthlessness and economic desperation with a new modern classic.Based on Donald E. Westlake’s novel The Ax, the story follows Man-su on his desperate hunt for a new job after his abruptlayoff from the paper company he served for 25 years. With limited job opportunities in the industry and with bills mounting,Man-su will go to violent lengths to make ends meet.
Winner of the inaugural International People’s Choice Award at the 50th Toronto International Film Festival, this pitch-blackcomedy will shock you in ways only Chan-wook can.

After the Hunt
2025-10-30 19:00 | Koubek Center Theater, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Language: English
Country: United States
Join us for a drink and a movie at our Miami Film Festival GEMS Program Launch! Grab a complimentary glass of wine uponarrival and get the inside scoop on the GEMS lineup before tickets go on sale on October 1.
From visionary filmmaker Luca Guadagnino, After The Hunt is a gripping psychological drama about a college professor (JuliaRoberts) who finds herself at a personal and professional crossroads when a star student (Ayo Edebiri) levels an accusationagainst one of her colleagues (Andrew Garfield), and a dark secret from her own past threatens to come into the light. AfterThe Hunt is written by Nora Garrett.

Nuremberg
2025-10-30 19:30 | Koubek Center Theater, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
Director: James Vanderbilt
Language: English
Country: United States
The Allies – led by unyielding chief prosecutor Robert H. Jackson – are tasked with ensuring that the Nazi regime answers forthe unveiled horrors of the Holocaust, as a U.S. Army psychiatrist is locked in a dramatic psychological duel with formerReichsmarschall Hermann Göring, played by Russell Crowe in an unforgettable turn as Hitler’s second-in-command.
With powerhouse performances from its star-studded cast made up of Crowe, Rami Malek, Michael Shannon, Leo Woodall, John Slattery, and Richard E. Grant, Nuremberg is a historical deep dive into one of the most consequential trials in history.More than just a history lesson, director James Vanderbilt’s shrewd film dissects the very concepts of justice and moralresponsibility

Dreams
2025-10-31 19:00 | Koubek Center Theater, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
Director: Michel Franco
Language: Spanish, English
Country: Mexico, United States
Fernando (Isaac Hernández, Someone Has to Die), a young ballet dancer from Mexico, dreams of international fame and life inthe U.S. Believing that his lover, Jennifer (Jessica Chastain), a socialite and philanthropist, will support him, he leaveseverything behind and narrowly escapes death while crossing the border. His arrival, however, disrupts Jennifer’s carefullycurated world. She will do anything to protect their future together – and the life she has built for herself.
The latest film from Michel Franco – a regular at Miami Film Festival and a prior GEMS guest whose films include Memory, NewOrder, and After Lucia – in this film he reunites with his Memory star Chastain, an Oscar winner for The Eyes of Tammy Fayeand nominee for The Help and Zero Dark Thirty.

She Dances
2025-11-01 13:00 | Koubek Center Theater, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
Director: Rick Gomez
Language: English
Country: United States
Forced to reconnect on the road to her final dance competition, a father and daughter must confront their fracturedrelationship. As they navigate a shared tragedy, the whirlwind of the Young Miss Southeast Regional Dance Finals becomes thebackdrop for their journey toward healing.
Fresh off its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival, She Dances is an intimate and moving treasure of a film. Starring Steve Zahn alongside his real-life daughter Audrey Zahn in her feature film debut, and co-starring our GEMS Variety VirtuosoAward honoree Ethan Hawke, it’s a story about rediscovering family and finding yourself – and about accepting what is, lettingit shape you, and recognizing who you are through the memories of those you love most.

Is This Thing On?
2025-11-01 16:00 | Koubek Center Theater, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
Director: Bradley Cooper
Language: English
Country: United States
As their marriage quietly unravels, Alex (Will Arnett) facing middle age and an impending divorce, seeking new purpose on theNew York comedy scene, while Tess (Laura Dern) confronts the sacrifices she made for their family – forcing them to navigateco-parenting, identity, and whether love can take a new form. Bradley Cooper’s third film as a director after A Star is Born andMaestro, Miami Film Festival GEMS is screening Is This Thing On? just three weeks after its world premiere as the closing nightfilm of the New York Film Festival.
Funny and revealing, it’s a cathartic look at finding the humor in the face of life’s curveballs.

Sirât
2025-11-01 19:45 | Koubek Center Theater, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
Director: Oliver Laxe
Language: Spanish, French
Country: France, Spain
A father (Sergi López) and his son arrive at a rave deep in the mountains of southern Morocco. They’re searching for Mar –daughter and sister – who vanished months ago at one of these endless, sleepless parties. Surrounded by electronic musicand a raw, unfamiliar sense of freedom, they hand out her photo again and again. Hope is fading, but they push through andfollow a group of ravers heading to one last party in the desert. As they venture deeper into the burning wilderness, thejourney forces them to confront their own limits.
Spain’s official submission for the Oscars, this Cannes sensation won the Jury Prize and three others, including Palm Dog forbest canine performance.

A Private Life (Vie privée)
2025-11-02 13:00 | Koubek Center Theater, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
Director: Rebecca Zlotowski
Language:French
Country: France
Renowned psychiatrist Lilian Steiner is deeply troubled by the sudden death of one of her patients. Convinced it was murder,she decides to investigate…
An official selection at some of the world’s most renowned film festivals – including Cannes, Telluride, Toronto, San Sebastian,and New York – A Private Life marks two-time Academy Award-winning actress Jodie Foster’s first French-speaking lead role.In her remarkable hands, she takes a story about obsession and infuses it with both camp and sincerity. And while at firstglance it appears to be a murder mystery, there’s something much more interesting bubbling beneath the surface in thispsychological tale of emotional suppression and personal discovery.

Jay Kelly
2025-11-02 15:15 | Koubek Center Theater, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
Director: Noah Baumbach
Language: English
Country: United States
Jay Kelly, the new film from Academy Award nominee Noah Baumbach, follows famous movie actor Jay Kelly (GeorgeClooney) and his devoted manager, Ron (Adam Sandler), as they embark on a whirlwind and unexpectedly profound journeythrough Europe. Along the way, both men are forced to confront the choices they’ve made, their relationships with their lovedones, and the legacies they’ll leave behind.
A gripping character study played by a phenomenal George Clooney in the title role, Jay Kelly also stars Adam Sandler, LauraDern, Billy Crudup, and Greta Gerwig. The end result is an entertaining mediation on identity, isolation, and celebrity – and howthe hardest role to play in life is that of ourselves.

The Secret Agent (O Agente Secreto)
2025-11-02 18:15 | FL
Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho
Language: Portuguese
Country: Brazil, France, Netherlands,
Brazil, 1977. Marcelo, a technology expert in his early 40s, is on the run. He arrives in Recife during carnival week hoping toreunite with his son, but soon realizes that the city is far from being the nonviolent refuge he seeks.
The Secret Agent was the winner of multiple awards at the Cannes Film Festival, including best actor for Wagner Moura, bestdirector for Kleber Mendonça Filho, and the FIPRESCI Prize.
Kleber Mendonça Filho is a master filmmaker and has directed myriad Brazilian classics, including Neighboring Sounds,Aquarius, and Bacurau. The Secret Agent is one of his most striking films yet: a neo-noir political thriller that also pays lovinghomage

Eternity
2025-11-03 19:30 | Koubek Center Theater, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
Director: David Freyne
Language: English
Country: United States
In an afterlife where souls have one week to decide where to spend eternity, Joan (Elizabeth Olsen) is faced with the impossible choice between the man she spent her life with (Miles Teller) and her first love (Callum Turner), who died young and has waited decades for her to arrive.
In this imaginative, funny, and swoonworthy romantic dramedy from director David Freyne, the love triangle is given a fresh – and surprisingly profound – twist. With a buoyancy and charm that lend a playful energy to its high-concept premise, Eternity is as emotionally layered as it is visually striking. What truly gives the film its weight is the quiet melancholy running just beneath the surface. Eternity reminds us that love is rarely simple…even in the afterlife.

Ibero American Film Festival
2025-11-17 - 2025-11-23 | Koubek Center Theater, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
La magia del séptimo arte regresa a la ciudad con la 7ª edición del Ibero American Film Festival Miami (IAFFM), que se celebrará del 17 al 23 de noviembre en el emblemático Koubek Center del Miami Dade College.
Durante una semana, el festival reunirá a cineastas, artistas y amantes del cine para disfrutar de una programación única que celebra la riqueza cultural, la diversidad y la creatividad de Iberoamérica. Desde potentes dramas hasta comedias inspiradoras, pasando por documentales reveladores y cortometrajes innovadores, el IAFFM es una ventana abierta a las historias que definen y conectan a nuestras comunidad
Asegura tu lugar en este encuentro cinematográfico imperdible ingresando en: https://iaffm.com/home/

No pierdas la oportunidad de vivir una experiencia cultural inolvidable: proyecciones exclusivas, encuentros con directores, paneles de conversación, y actividades especiales que harán del IAFFM 2025 un punto de encuentro para todos los apasionados del cine.
17 al 23 de noviembre
Koubek Center – Miami Dade College
¡Ven a celebrar con nosotros el talento, la diversidad y la fuerza del cine iberoamericano en Miami!

Programa En Residencia 2025
2025-11-27 08:00 - 17:00 | Koubek Center, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
El programa En Residencia, creado en julio de 2021, nació con el propósito de fortalecer y nutrir el ecosistema cultural de Miami a través del trabajo de nuestros artistas locales. Esta iniciativa busca impulsar la creatividad, abrir espacios de experimentación y fomentar el diálogo entre los creadores y la comunidad.
En Residencia está abierto a artistas de todas las disciplinas y en cualquier etapa de su carrera. Como parte del programa, los participantes tienen acceso a las aulas y al estudio de ensayo del Koubek Center para desarrollar nuevos proyectos, investigar, crear y colaborar. Además, según cada caso, los Residentes pueden integrarse a la programación del Centro y formar parte de actividades especiales que conectan su obra con el público.
“En Residencia es un pilar de la misión del Koubek Center de construir comunidad a través de las artes”, afirma Melissa Messulam, directora del Centro. “A través de este programa, esperamos proporcionar un espacio que inspire a los artistas a ser creativos, les ayude a mantener su práctica, genere nuevas posibilidades y fomente conexiones entre ellos y con la comunidad”.
Hoy te invitamos a conocer más sobre esta experiencia transformadora.
¡Ya puedes ver el documental del programa En Residencia y descubrir de cerca el proceso creativo de nuestros artistas!
The Artist-in-Residence Program, created in July 2021, was born with the purpose of strengthening and nurturing Miami’s cultural ecosystem through the work of our local artists. This initiative seeks to spark creativity, open spaces for experimentation, and foster dialogue between creators and the community.
The program is open to artists from all disciplines and at any stage of their careers. As part of the residency, participants gain access to the Koubek Center’s classrooms and rehearsal studio to develop new projects, research, create, and collaborate. Additionally, depending on each case, Residents may be integrated into the Center’s programming and take part in special activities that connect their work with the public.
“En Residencia is a pillar of the Koubek Center’s mission to build community through the arts,” says Melissa Messulam, the Center’s director. “Through this program, we hope to provide a space that inspires artists to be creative, helps them sustain their practice, generates new possibilities, and nurtures connections—both among artists and with the community.”
We invite you to learn more about this transformative experience.
You can now watch the En Residencia documentary and explore firsthand the creative process of our artists!

Perseverancia
2026-03-16 08:00 - 17:00 | Koubek Center Theater, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
Documentary
Spanish/English
Mexico
Perseverancia is a tangible portrait of the life and extraordinary work of Tomás Sánchez, one of the most relevant contemporary Latin American artists of our time. A master of dazzling imagery capable of contrasting nature in its vital, almost mystical state – or wounded by human indifference – Sánchez’s poetic landscapes are a perpetual hymn to beauty and freedom consistent with his ecological philosophical vision.
Perseverancia is the name of the sugar mill in Cienfuegos, Cuba, where Sánchez enjoyed his childhood alongside his mother, his earliest artistic influence. Juan Carlos Martín presents Sánchez not only through his origins and influences, but through the lens of the generation that marked a turning point amid the dictatorial uncertainty of 1980s Cuba.
Expected guest:
JUAN CARLOS MARTÍN / DIRECTOR
2024
108 MINS

Tropical Park
2026-03-16 08:00 - 17:00 | Koubek Center Theater, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
Drama
Spanish
United States
During a driving lesson, two Cuban siblings – a newly arrived trans woman (Lola Bosch) and her estranged conservative brother (Ariel Texidó) – face each other for the first time in years, with a silent Miami bearing witness outside their car windows.
From local filmmaker Hansel Porras Garcia, Tropical Park is a hybrid observational drama film shot in a single take and a love letter to Miami.
One of countless stories from the Cuban exile experience in the U.S., it’s a quiet meditation on coexistence, memory, and empathy. Here, Garcia explores what it means to share space with those who see the world through a different lens, and how love evolves when certain identities gently disrupt what once felt unquestionable.
Expected guest
HANSEL PORRAS GARCIA / DIRECTO
2025
85 MINS
