Vladimir Cruz

Diego, a cultivated, homosexual and skeptical young man, falls in love with a young heterosexual communist full of prejudices and doctrinary ideas. First come rejection and suspicion, but also fascination. Fresa y chocolate is the story of a great friendship, that is, a great love between two men, which overcomes incomprehension and intolerance.

A desperate group of people wait at a rundown Cuban transit station for the next bus to arrive. The problem is, it never shows up. (imdb)

A light-hearted and high-spirited story, full of spice, sensuality and romance, Viva Zapato tells the tale of Dolores, a beautiful Cuban dancer who decides to leave her failing marriage and open a restaurant by the beach with her aunt from Brazil. (IMDb)

When a game can change history.

In a small village in Cuba news spreads that all those with a certain lat name are eligible for a mysterious inheritance.

The heroine is Emilia, a tormented housewife trapped in a middle-class life, overwhelmed by mediocrity, and exhausted by motherhood. The same day that her lover leaves her, her credit card is blocked, and Emilia takes the decision she has long contemplated, suicide. Embracing melodrama, Reasons of the Heart features black-and-white cinematography and film-noir aesthetics. (iksv.org)

7 Days in Havana is a snapshot of Havana in 2011: a contemporary portrait of this eclectic city, vital and forward-looking, told through a single feature-length movie made of 7 chapters, directed by 7 internationally acclaimed directors. (mubi.com)

A usurer nicknamed The Turk is killed. Mysteriously, everyone in the village had problems with him and anyone could have been his killer. (imdb)