With a script by Francisco García and photography by Raúl Pérez, this black comedy features Cuban actors Isabel Santos, Osvaldo Doimeadiós, Carlos Enrique Almirante, Yailín Coppola, Luis Alberto García, and Yenni Soria in the leading roles.
The film is made up of three stories that ultimately intertwine: Ricki’s trip to Cuba after many years abroad, to meet up with his girlfriend Beatriz, who has changed a lot; Claudia, who in her search for money to buy a house, tries to swindle a drug dealer.
It also tells about the ups and downs of Celina, a necrophiliac (people with sexual attraction to the dead) willing to spend a weekend with a corpse, who will have to face the opposite obstacles to her wishes.
According to the official website of the Festival on the Internet, the event that will take place until November 10 is dedicated to the years of disclosure and promotion of the Latin filmography and for this it will screen a sample of over 30 films awarded at international events.
The day before, the film Portrait of Teresa, by Cuban director Pastor Vega, a classic of the Antillean nation’s filmography, and the documentary Goodbye, Papi, a tribute to Aaron Vega, son of its director, were screened.
Completing the sample of the Caribbean island are the films El Mayor, by Rigoberto López; Tales of one more day, choral work coordinated by Fernando Pérez; and Juan de los muertos, by Alejandro Brugués, as a tribute to actor Alexis Díaz de Villegas, who died in June this year. Cuban participation in the different categories in the contest (fiction, documentary and short film), includes the titles People of the documentary, by Inti Herrera; The return of Nicanor, by Eduardo del Llano; How do you spell love, by Vega Granados; and Gemini, by Orlando Mora.
For the closing session, the presentation of the documentary Fito’s Havana, by Cuban Juan Pin Vilar, is planned, collecting testimonies of important personalities of the Ibero-American culture, while recording the reality of Cuba under the gaze of the Argentine singer Fito Páez.
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