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

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

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 [...]

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, [...]

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. [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]