Week of Events
En Residencia | Applications
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 [...]
Miami Dade College’s 41st Miami Film Festival!
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 [...]
COPA 71
COPA 71
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 [...]
SEGURIDAD
SEGURIDAD
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 [...]
VERA AND THE PLEASURE OF OTHERS
VERA AND THE PLEASURE OF OTHERS
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 [...]
THE PRACTICE
THE PRACTICE
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 [...]
PUAN
PUAN
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 [...]
UNION OF KINGS
UNION OF KINGS
Your Content Goes Here 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 [...]
Nicolás Guillén Landrián Retrospective (Shorts Block)
Nicolás Guillén Landrián Retrospective (Shorts Block)
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 [...]
LANDRIÁN
LANDRIÁN
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 [...]