Koubek Center

Visual Arts Exhibition with New World School of Arts Students
2023-12-08 09:00 - 11:00 (America/New_York) | Koubek Center, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
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Koubek Center is proud to continue its annual partnership with New World School of the Arts (NWSA) in a collaboration that will transform the Center and its gardens into an outdoor sculpture exhibit developed and curated by New World School of the Arts Visual Arts Students.

Visual Arts Exhibition with New World School of Arts Students
2023-12-08 09:00 - 11:00 | Koubek Center, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
Koubek Center is proud to continue its annual partnership with New World School of the Arts (NWSA) in a collaboration that will transform the Center and its gardens into an outdoor sculptural or performative exhibit developed and curated by New World School of the Arts Visual Arts Students. As the students produce their work, they will become visual/artist alchemist and create something new by reinterpreting, reimaging, or remixing the artwork at the exhibition at the New World, linking the two exhibitions. By contrasting the two, one in a white cube and one centered in the site-specific/experimental approach the students will look at the past and the future of artmaking, the collection and its legacy. The students will be led by NWSA faculty and alumni.
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DISC-COVER@Koubek
2023-12-08 19:56 | Koubek Center Theater, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
Koubek Center is excited to announce DISC-COVER @ Koubek, a new program that spotlights new musical releases by homegrown artists. The Koubek will partner with local artists throughout the year by hosting concerts highlighting the exciting new music being released in our Magic City!
Postcards is a rocking, symphonic sophomore album from Miami-based Lemon City Trio. Nick Tannura (guitar), Brian Robertson (synth/keys), and Aaron Glueckauf (drums) bring a lot to the table.
Tannura plays lead lines with the presence of a vocalist. Robertson arranges with the touch of a film composer — he is one — broadening the instrumentation while always keeping the song laser focused on melody. Glueckauf, meanwhile, is a human beat machine, the tasty backbone of everything else happening in the music.
Progressive rock, jazz fusion, contemporary Saharan music, the aforementioned hip hop and funk — the name Postcards is a reference to visiting all these musical destinations, stopping for a spell in each and sending something back home. What makes LCT cool is their ability to go to all these disparate places and always sound like themselves in the process.
The album release concert will feature Brian Potts (founder Miamibloco).
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Un Homenaje a Dulce Maria Loynaz
2023-12-10 15:00 | Koubek Center, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
YO DEJO MI PALABRA
10 de diciembre, 1902 – 27 de abril, 1997
“Yo dejo mi palabra en el aire, sin llaves y sin velos.
Porque ella no es un arca de codicia, ni una mujer coqueta que
trata de parecer más hermosa de lo que es.
Yo dejo mi palabra en el aire, para que todos la vean,
la palpen, la estrujen o la expriman.
Nada hay en ella que no sea yo misma; pero en ceñirla como
cilicio y no como manto pudiera estar toda mi ciencia”.
Poema II, Poemas sin nombre (1953)
DULCE MARIA LOYNAZ

Este evento se realizará en español.

El Koubek Center del Miami Dade College se complace en presentar “Un homenaje a Dulce María Loynaz”, nueva y fascinante producción en honor a una colosal figura de la literatura cubana, que combinará brillantemente su poesía con la música de dos de los principales compositores cubanos: Ernesto Lecuona y José White Laffitte. La presentación se llevará a cabo el domingo 10 de diciembre a las 3:00 p.m., en colaboración con la Feria del Libro de Miami.
Loynaz, considerada como una de las principales luminarias de la literatura cubana, fue galardonada con más de quince distinciones literarias, incluyendo el Premio Miguel de Cervantes en 1992, otorgado anualmente para honrar la trayectoria de un destacado escritor de la lengua española, y considerado como uno de los más prestigiosos de la literatura española. El tributo hará corresponder la música de Lecuona, conocido como “El Gershwin cubano”; y la de White Lafitte, el famoso violinista afrocubano, con el lirismo de la poesía de Loynaz (interpretada como palabra hablada), creando una unión perfecta y una interpretación fascinante.
El público disfrutará de la composición de Lecuona Dame tus rosas, inspirada en el poema Rosas de Loynaz; así como de La Bella Cubana de White Lafitte y del Poema CXXIV a la Isla de Cuba de la escritora, por solo nombrar algunas de las piezas simbióticas de poesía y música que se interpretarán en la velada.
Mónica Santibáñez, la productora ejecutiva de la presentación, ha admirado desde hace tiempo a Loynaz, desde que su madre, a quien está dedicada la producción, le diera a conocer la obra de la escritora. La locutora y narradora Viviám María López guiará al público a través del programa. La célebre actriz Grettel Trujillo tendrá a su cargo la lectura de poesía, y las interpretaciones musicales estarán a cargo de Voices of Miami Choir, bajo la dirección de Greisel Domínguez, con la soprano Laura de Mare y el tenor Carlos Silva. Estarán acompañados al piano por Evita Garrucho. La actuación es supervisada por el renombrado director artístico Marcos Casanova.
Ilustración: Grizelle Paz
YO DEJO MI PALABRA
Dec. 10, 1902 – April 27, 1997
“Yo dejo mi palabra en el aire, sin llaves y sin velos.
Porque ella no es un arca de codicia, ni una mujer coqueta que
trata de parecer mas hermosa de lo que es.
Yo dejo mi palabra en el aire, para que todos la vean,
la palpen, la estrujen o la expriman.
Nada hay en ella que no sea yo misma; pero en ceñirla como
cilicio y no como manto pudiera estar toda mi ciencia.”
DULCE MARIA LOYNAZ
This event is in Spanish
Miami Dade College’s Koubek Center is pleased to present An Homage to Dulce María Loynaz, an exciting new production honoring a titan of Cuban literature, which brilliantly pairs her poetry with the music of two of Cuba’s greatest composers, Ernesto Lecuona and José White Lafitte. The performance will take place on Sunday, December 10 at 3 p.m. and is presented in partnership with Miami Book Fair.
Loynaz, considered one of the principal figures of Cuban literature, was the recipient of more than 15 literary awards, including the 1992 Miguel de Cervantes Prize. The Prize is bestowed annually to honor the lifetime achievement of an outstanding writer of the Spanish language and is considered the most prestigious prize one can receive for Spanish literature. The tribute will pair her poetry with the music of Lecuona, known as “The Cuban Gershwin,” and White Lafitte, the famed Afro-Cuban violinist. Together, the lyricism of Loynaz’s poetry (performed as spoken word) and music of Lecuona and White Lafitte create a perfect union and mesmerizing performance.
The audience will enjoy Lecuona’s composition Dame tus rosas (Give Me Your Roses), which was inspired by her poem, Rosas, as they will White Lafitte’s composition, La Bella Cubana (The Beautiful Cuban Woman), and her poem CXXIV a la Isla de Cuba (CXXIV to the Cuban Island), to name a few of the symbiotic poetry and music pieces that will be performed.
Executive Producer Mónica Santibanez is a longtime admirer of Loynaz and was introduced to her work by her mother, to whom she dedicates this production. Narrator Viviam Maria López will guide the audience through the program. Celebrated actress Grettel Trujillo will perform the poetry reading, and musical interpretations are by Voices of Miami Choir, under the direction of Greisel Domínguez, featuring soprano Laura de Mare and tenor Carlos Silva. They are accompanied on piano by Evita Garrucho. The performance is overseen by renowned artistic director Marcos Casanova.
Illustration: Grizelle Paz

Miami Film Festival 2024
2024-01-26 19:00 | Koubek Center, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
Miami Dade College’s Cuban Cinema Series resume, presented by Miami Film Festival at the Koubek Center
Series launches with a tribute to León Ichaso and Orlando Jiménez Leal with screenings of:

El Super screening on January 26th at 7:30 PM

Picnic de Libros - February 10, 2024
2024-02-10 14:00 - 17:00 | Koubek Center Gardens, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
Picnic de Libros is a bilingual, family day program featuring storytelling, theatre, music, arts and crafts, dance, and picnic baskets full of books, for families to enjoy together. The event is free, and its main goal is to expose kids to the richness and variety of the cultural traditions in our diverse community. These gatherings will tickle children’s curiosity while using the power of stories to bring people together, promoting literacy, and nurturing the next generation of engaged world citizens. We want to encourage kids to read and develop a passion for books and literature. Culminating each day, we will serve a special picnic with blankets on the lawn and baskets full of books, in both Spanish and English.
The next picnic will feature:

Puppet workshop by Colombian actress Danly Arango.
Creative Stage Productions returns with its entertaining characters.
The Spanish children’s play “ En El País de la Cocina” by the theatrical group Artefactus.
Percussion workshop led by Mexican-American artist Nabedi Osorio.

Presented by Fundación Cuatrogatos and Koubek Center.
El picnic de libros es un evento multidisciplinario, bilingüe y gratuito, que busca acercar a los niños a la literatura y las artes, a través de cuentos, poemas, manualidades, trabalenguas, adivinanzas, música y además, habrá cestas de picnic llenas de libros, para leer y disfrutar.
El próximo Picnic contará con:

Taller de títeres por la actriz colombiana Danly Arango.
Creative Stage Productions regresa con sus divertidos personajes.
La obra infantil de Teatro “En El País de la Cocina” del grupo teatral Artefactus
Taller de Percusión conducido por la artista Mexicana-Americana Nabedi Osorio.

Presentado por Fundación Cuatrogatos y Koubek Center.

Little Havana Social Club – Tambores III
2024-02-24 20:00 - 22:00 | Koubek Center Gardens, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
El Koubek Center presenta el próximo evento del Little Havana Social Club, Tambores, a las 8 p.m. el sábado 24 de febrero. Tambores es un viaje por las Américas celebrando sus tradiciones musicales y un saludo a los orígenes africanos, así como las diferentes variantes de sus ritmos, moldeados por la geografía, la economía, las creencias religiosas y la historia colonial de cada lugar del extenso continente. Los tambores son el corazón que da vida a los ritmos creados para bailar, celebrar y hablar a los espíritus.
Artists will be announced soon!

Film Festival 2024
2024-02-29 19:00 - 21:00 | Koubek Center Theater, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
The successful Cuban Cinema Series, founded and directed by film critic Alejandro Ríos since 1993 at Miami Dade College, continues its performances at the Koubek Center with the film 8 – A by cuban director Orlando Jimenez Leal on Thursday February 29th at the Koubek Center.
The Kafkaesque world of Cuba under Castro’s rule is brought to light in this reconstruction of the 1989 trial and execution of General Arnaldo Ochoa Sanchez, the highest-ranking general and hero of the revolution, and commander of the Angolan and Ethiopian campaigns.

Open House Miami
2024-03-01 18:00 - 21:00 | Koubek Center, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
For over five decades, Miami Dade College has stood as a cultural beacon in Miami. On Friday, March 1, immerse yourself in the vibrant tapestry of MDC’s Cultural Affairs programs like never before. Witness a fusion of music, dance, film, and visual arts all under one roof. This event offers the perfect opportunity to savor it all, as we showcase an evening celebrating architecture while embodying the multicultural essence and diverse offerings we’re renowned for.

Experience a captivating short film courtesy of the Miami Film Festival. Step into the vibrant world of the Miami Book Fair, where you’ll encounter a “literary astrologer,” request a personalized poem, and depart with a complimentary Big Read book and tote bag. Extend your journey with a guided tour of the historic Koubek Mansion, a architectural gem steeped in history, led by Miami historian Casey Piket and presented by the Museum of Art and Design (MOAD).

But the night is far from over! The Koubek Center invites you to observe an Afro-Cuban dance class, while for those seeking a lively atmosphere, Live Arts Miami will host Indian Bhangra-themed dance pop ups where you can fully engage and join in the festivities!

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Pink+Jam=Jam!
2024-03-07 20:00 | Koubek Center, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
The Koubek Center is proud to host a Pink+Magic=Jam! on March 7 featuring bassist drummer Julian Babou (from the island of Reunion), Sonny Troupe (Guadaloupe), and trumpeter Etienne Charles, a Miami resident born in Trinidad. The event is open to the public and invites Miami musicians to come and join the jam!
As Creole artists dedicated to upholding and developing the music of their native lands, Babou and Troupe have set out to explore a musical history rooted in colonization and slavery and how immigrant communities develop their cultures outside the homeland. Pink+Magic=Jam! is part of a Villa Albertine residency that will take Babou and Troupe to Puerto Rico and New Orleans.
Villa Albertine is a French institution for arts and ideas in the United States that will host Pink+Magic=Jam! at Jass Kitchen on March 6 and at WDNA on March 8.
To participate as an artist, please contact 786.587.8386

Women in Theatre Miami
2024-03-12 10:30 - 12:30 | Koubek Center, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
Simbios Art and Koubek Center presents the third edition of WOMEN IN THEATRE celebrating the international women’s month.
Women in Theatre March 12 panel:

Renee Pesci, from Arts & Business Council
Liz Wallace, from Arsht Center
Victoria Collado, Director
Victoria Row-Traster, from Miami Theatre Center
Rosalinda Rodriguez, actress

We hope to have you all at Koubek Center for coffee and breakfast.
Register Fee $7 – Includes breakfast
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En Residencia | Applications
2024-03-18 - 2024-04-30 | FL
The Koubek Center will be accepting applications for its annual artist residency program, En Residencia, from March 18 through April 30. Local creators are eligible regardless of their discipline or stage of their career. The selected artists will be notified by June, at which time they can begin their residencies. The membership fee for En Residencia is $200 and is valid for a year. During that time, artists can use the classrooms and limited studio space, which ranges between 400 and 750 square feet. The spaces will be available Monday through Friday, from 9 am to 8 pm. Artists may block spaces for up to 2 months per project, with a maximum of two projects per year. The Koubek Center will consider flexibility regarding the length of individual residencies on a case-by-case basis.
El Koubek Center estará aceptando solicitudes para su programa anual de residencias artísticas, En Residencia, a partir del 18 de marzo hasta el 30 de abril. Los artistas y creadores locales son elegibles independientemente de su disciplina o en que etapa de su carrera se encuentran. Los artistas seleccionados serán notificados enjunio, momento en el que podrán comenzar sus residencias. El costo para participar de En Residencia es de $ 200 y es por un año. Durante ese tiempo, los artistas pueden utilizar las aulas y el espacio limitado de estudio, que oscila entre 400 y 750 pies cuadrados. Los espacios estarán disponibles de lunes a viernes, de 9 de la mañana a 8 de la tarde. Los artistas podrán bloquear los espacios durante un máximo de dos meses por proyecto, con un máximo de dos proyectos al año. El Koubek Center considerará la flexibilidad en cuanto a la duración de las residencias individuales caso por caso.

World Day Event
2024-03-26 19:00 | Koubek Center, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
El próximo martes 26 de Marzo, en el marco de la celebración de III WORLD THEATER DAY MIAMI 2024, el Koubek Center será el escenario de un evento imperdible para la comunidad teatral local.
“El Teatro y el marketing digital” es el conversatorio que se llevará a cabo a las 7pm, donde el especialista Jorge Pérez, CEO de la agencia ON POINT PRODUCTION, abordará el giro que están dando las redes sociales y el marketing digital en la promoción de eventos teatrales, dicho conversatorio tendra como moderador a nuestro Director, Manuel Mendoza.
Hablaremos de la publicidad digital enfocada en teatro y eventos, diseñada especialmente para quienes se encuentran organizando eventos teatrales locales.

Picnic de Libros - March 30, 2024
2024-03-30 14:00 - 17:00 | FL
Picnic de Libros is a bilingual, family day program featuring storytelling, theatre, music, arts and crafts, dance, and picnic baskets full of books, for families to enjoy together. The event is free, and its main goal is to expose kids to the richness and variety of the cultural traditions in our diverse community. These gatherings will tickle children’s curiosity while using the power of stories to bring people together, promoting literacy, and nurturing the next generation of engaged world citizens. We want to encourage kids to read and develop a passion for books and literature. Culminating each day, we will serve a special picnic with blankets on the lawn and baskets full of books, in both Spanish and English.
The next picnic will feature:

Art & Craft workshop presented by Museum of Art and Design MOAD

Storytelling with Leo Van Schermbeek.
Percussion workshop by South Florida Center Percussive Arts
Creative Stage Productions returns with its entertaining characters.

Presented by Fundación Cuatrogatos and Koubek Center.
El picnic de libros es un evento multidisciplinario, bilingüe y gratuito, que busca acercar a los niños a la literatura y las artes, a través de cuentos, poemas, manualidades, trabalenguas, adivinanzas, música y además, habrá cestas de picnic llenas de libros, para leer y disfrutar.
El próximo Picnic contará con:

Taller de Manualidades presentado por el Museo de Arte y Diseño MOAD
Cuentacuentos por Leo Van Schermbeek

Taller de Percusión conducido por South Florida Center For The Percussive Arts
Creative Stage Productions regresa con sus divertidos personajes.

Presentado por Fundación Cuatrogatos y el Koubek Center.

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

COPA 71
2024-04-06 12:00 | Koubek Center Theater, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
Special Presentation
It is August 1971. Football teams from England, Argentina, Mexico, France, Denmark and Italy are gathering at Mexico City’s Azteca Stadium. The scale of the tournament is monumental: lavish sponsorship, extensive TV coverage, and crowds of over 100,000 hollering fans turn this historic stadium into ‘a cauldron of noise and heat’ match after match. The atmosphere is reminiscent of the greatest moments in international footballing history.
But this is a tournament unlike anything that’s happened before. The players on the pitch are all women. And it’s likely you’ve never even heard of it. This is Copa 71, the unofficial Women’s World Cup. This event has been entirely written out of history. Until now.
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James Erskine is a British screenwriter, film director and producer. The Human Face, which he co-directed, was nominated for the Outstanding Non-Fiction Special Emmy Award in 2002. Rachel Ramsay multilingual filmmaker with strong journalistic experience and specialism in cross-cultural broadcasting for feature documentary, current affairs and factual TV. known for Copa 71 (2023), Le Mans: 3D (2017) and The End of the Storm (2020).
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SEGURIDAD
2024-04-06 15:00 | Koubek Center Theater, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
Jordan Ressler First Feature Award
Director Tamara Segura will be in attendance to participate in a post-screening Q&A.
This screening is a part of the Spotlight on Cuba at Miami Film Festival, made possible with support of ArtesMiami.
In her feature documentary Seguridad, Newfoundland-based filmmaker Tamara Segura—once named “Cuba’s youngest soldier” in a militia publicity stunt—portrays her troubled relationship with her father in the context of the Cuban Revolution. When Segura accepts a scholarship to study film in Canada, the move offers crucial distance from her alcoholic father. After four years, she returns to Cuba hoping to make amends. But her father’s sudden death just days after her arrival forces Segura to explore his troubled past and the role Cuba’s highly militarized system played in his downfall. Through a series of deeply personal on-camera interviews with her immediate family, Segura unearths long-held secrets that ultimately tell a story of resilience and profound love between family members.
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Tamara Segura is a Cuban Canadian filmmaker who graduated from the International Film School of San Antonio de los Banos, Cuba, an acclaimed institution founded by Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez to help diversify the globe’s cinematic landscape. Segura’s films have been awarded film prizes in Spain, Cuban Canana and Mexico. Recently, Tamara has co-directed Becoming Labrador (2019), a feature-length documentary produced by the National Film Board of Canada that screened at the Closing Night of the Reelworld Festival 2019. Her short film C Sharp and D Suspended (2018), one of the finalists of the CBC Short Film Face Off contest, premiered at the East Coast Reel Gala of the FIN Festival 2018 and is available in CBC Gem.
Sponsored by ArtesMiami, FlixLatino, and Jordan Ressler Foundation.
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VERA AND THE PLEASURE OF OTHERS
2024-04-06 18:00 | Koubek Center Theater, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
Jordan Ressler First Feature
Director Romina Tamburello and Producer Santiago King will be in attendance to participate in a post-screening Q&A.
17-year-old Vera divides her days between volleyball, school, and a secret hobby: she rents out an empty apartment to teenagers looking for a place to have sex. She steals the keys from her distracted mother, who manages different properties, and organises everything. The teenagers come and go, using the apartment for a few uninterrupted hours. Playing invisible, Vera stays behind the closed door; her own sexual desires unfolding as she listens to other people’s pleasure.
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Federico Actis is known for Historias Breves VI (2010), Vera and the Pleasure of Others (2023) and Todo de ti (2001).
Romina Tamburello is known for Vera and the Pleasure of Others (2023), La tabla de los sueños (2012) and La Redonda (2015).
Sponsored by Jordan Ressler Foundation, FlixLatino, and AIDS Healthcare Foundation.
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PUAN
2024-04-07 12:00 | Koubek Center Theater, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
Marimbas Award
Think an ordinary existential midlife crisis is hard? Try having one as an aging philosophy professor! Such is the burden Marcelo (Marcelo Subiotto) must carry in Puan
when, after a lifetime of teaching philosophy at the Public University of Buenos Aires, his mentor dies unexpectedly. Though Marcelo believes his ascension to department chair is a formality, an unexpected rival in the form of the charismatic and seductive Rafael (Leonardo Sbaraglia) arrives from the European universities to challenge him. Suddenly Marcelo has more to worry about than his receding hairline and growing paunch—he’s at risk of losing his very identity. As Marcelo clumsily attempts to win the ensuing absurdist philosophical duel, his life—and country—spiral into chaos.
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María Alché studied film direction in the ENERC (National Film School) from Buenos Aires, Argentina, and graduated in 2010. That internationally prestigious school admits only ten students per field each year.
Benjamín Naishtat was born in 1986 in Buenos Aires, Federal District, Argentina. He is a director and writer, known for History of Fear (2014), Rojo (2018) and The Movement (2015).
Sponsored by FlixLatino.
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THE PRACTICE
2024-04-07 12:00 | Koubek Center Theater, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
Special Presentation
You can’t always om your way out of life. Such is the lesson of this funny, philosophical film from Argentinian writer/director Martín Rejtman about a man named Gustavo (Esteban Bigliardi) who has devoted his life to zen, but is nonetheless served up chaos by the universe and its human minions: His wife and fellow yoga teacher Vanessa (Manuela Oyarzun) leaves him but keeps their apartment. He injures his knee, robbing him of his usual yogic practice. A revitalizing trip to India is canceled. He’s homeless. Everything is downward facing, heavy on the dog. Could it be, however, that these trials and tribulations are here to teach Gustavo the true meaning of surrender and transcendence?
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Martín Rejtman was born in 1961 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is a director and writer, known for Silvia Prieto (1999), Cropped Head (1992) and The Magic Gloves (2003).
Sponsored by FlixLatino.
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UNION OF KINGS
2024-04-07 15:00 | Koubek Center Theater, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
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Special Presentation
The screening will be preceded by the short film Objects of Desire (Objetos de Deseo), directed by Alejandro Renteria
Director Danny Pino will be in attendance to participate in a post-screening Q&A.
This screening is a part of the Spotlight on Cuba at Miami Film Festival, made possible with support of ArtesMiami.
After his father suffers a heart attack, David is forced to confront secrets from his father’s past and blood-ties back to his father’s homeland, Cuba.
Director Danny Pino currently stars in Mayans M.C. and made his episodic directorial debut in the fourth season. He is also known for Dear Evan Hansen, Law & Order: Special Victoms Unit, Scandal, The Shield, and Cold Case.
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Danny Pino is an actor and director best known for Cold Case (2003), Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) and Dear Evan Hansen (2021).
Sponsored by ArtesMiami and FlixLatino.
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Nicolás Guillén Landrián Retrospective (Shorts Block)
2024-04-07 19:00 | Koubek Center Theater, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
Remastered shorts from the pionerring Cuban filmmaker Nicolás Guillén Landrián, including the world premiere of the remastered Inside Downtown.
This screening is a part of the Spotlight on Cuba at Miami Film Festival, made possible with support of ArtesMiami.
En un barrio viejo (1963)
(6 minutes)
Los del baile (1965)
(9 minutes)
Ociel del Toa (1965)
(16 minutes)
Coffea Arábiga – (1968)
(18 minutes)
Taller de Línea y 18 (1971)
(15 minutes)
Inside Downtown (1991)
Directed by Nicolás Guillén Landrián and Jorge Egusquiza Zorrilla
(30 minutes)
Inside Downtown is the last cinematic work by legendary Cuban filmmaker Nicolás Guillén Landrián. After over 20 years in storage, it has been restored.
The director of Landrian, a documentary on the filmmaker screening afterwards (separate ticket required), Jorge Egusquiza Zorrilla and Nicolás Guillén, Jr. are expected to be in attendance to participate in a post-screening Q&A.
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Sponsored by FlixLatino and ArtesMiami.
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LANDRIÁN
2024-04-07 19:15 | Koubek Center Theater, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL, 33135, United States
Documentary Achievement Award
Director Ernesto Daranas Serrano and Screenwriter Ania Molina are expected to be in attendance to participate in a post-screening Q&A.
This screening is a part of the Spotlight on Cuba at Miami Film Festival, made possible with support of ArtesMiami.
Nicolás Guillén Landrián was one of the most pioneering Cuban filmmakers in the 60s and 70s. However, his work was subject to censorship, and he was condemned to ostracism. His imprisonment and the involuntary psychiatric detentions which ruled his life marked an awful fate shared by his own films, which were kept away from the audience and from critics for decades. It was not until 2022 that part of the documentaries of Nicolás Guillén Landrián started to be restored. In the midst of this process, his widow, Gretel Alfonso, and the photographer Livio Delgado looked back on different episodes
Also screening separately is a retrospective series of his documentary shorts, titled Nicolás Landrián Retrospective Shorts.
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Ernesto Daranas Serrano is a multi-award winning Cuban filmmaker. His three feature films have won hundreds of international awards and they have been Cuba’s official submissions to the Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. His documentary Los últimos gaiteros de La Habana won the King of Spain Award. Bluechacha was nominated to a Latin Grammy. Conducta was nominated to the Goya Awards for Best Latin American Film. Sergio & Sergei had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Sponsored by FlixLatino, and ArtesMiami.
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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).
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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).
Sponsored by FlixLatino and ArtesMiami.

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 | 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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