The 2024 film competes for the Festival’s Coral Award in the First Work category, the highest honor bestowed by the event founded by renowned Cuban intellectual and filmmaker Alfredo Guevara on December 3, 1979.

Directed by Johanne Gomez and screenplay by Maria Abenia, the 91-minute film is a co-production with Spain. The cast includes Yelida Diaz, Ruth Emeterio, Juan María Almonte, Génesis Piñeyro, Diogenes Medina, and Francisco Cruz.

With music by Jonay Armas and photography by Alvan Prado, this drama is immersed in the sugar industry’s mechanization process, which threatens to displace workers, the Filmaffinity website reported.

The film tells the story of Makenya, a pregnant teenager, who accompanies her grandfather, a sugarcane worker, in the protests for compensation, in a journey where pregnancy triggers the young woman’s path to adulthood.

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