Havana Film Festival

The Havana Film Festival New York (HFFNY) is an internationally recognized film festival celebrating Latin American cinema. In its 24th anniversary the Festival features over 30 films that demonstrate the richness of Latin American culture and its effects on global filmmaking, including NY, US and World Premieres of contemporary cinema from the region; award-winning documentaries that explore iconic Latinx literary, cinematic, and musical figures; and retrospectives of remastered classic films that have left an indelible mark on cinematic production around the world. Special events include panels on alternative film markets and indie filmmaking in the U.S. and Latin America, presentations and masterclasses by some of Latin America’s most celebrated artistic figures, roundtable discussions with industry professionals, networking receptions, parties, and more!

Schedule of Events:

1:00 PM - 2:10 PM: Homage To Landrian: Part 2

Part 2: The Unseen Gaze: A Retrospective of Nicolás Guillén Landrián

A Significant Restoration Project Unveiling the Lost Legacy of Cuba's Pioneering Black Filmmaker

Shorts in this program are NOT subtitled in English.

Program will be preceded by an introduction by Luciano Castillo, Director of the Cuban Film Archive (Cinemateca de Cuba)

Part 2 of HFFNY's homage to Nicolás Guillén Landrián includes the following short films, newly restored. Please note this part of the program contains films that have not been subtitled in English.

Un Festival
1963 | 11 min

Reportaje Plenaria Campesina
1966 | 10 min

Para Construir Una Casa
1972 | 16 min

Un Reportaje Sobre El Puerto Pesquero
1972 | 10min

Enciclopedia popular. Patio arenero
1962 | 10min

2:20 PM - 3:55 PM: Short Film Showcase

Showcase will be followed by a Q&A with director Àlex Lora.

La Gran Obra
Àlex Lora | Spain | Fiction | 2024 | 20 min | NY Premiere

Leo and Diana, a rich couple, bring a broken TV to a recycle point. They meet Salif and his son, two scrap dealers. Diana asks them to come to their house to getmore objects. Once there, Leo looks at them collecting objects with mistrust, until they see the scrap dealers have something they want.

Jíbaro
Osmanys Sánchez Arañó | Cuba | Documentary Short | 2023 | 19 min | U.S. PREMIERE

Yamíl Alessander is a young trans man from the Sierra Maestra. Discrimination from his community has led him to make the decision to go deep into the mountains and survive in a hostile environment.

Nube
Christian Arredondo Narváez - Diego Alonso Sánchez de la Barquera Estrada | France-Mexico-Hungary | Animation | 2023 | 8 min

After witnessing an old dark stormy cloud painfully rain and die in sorrow, Noma, a puffy white cloud realizes that Mixtli, her daughter, a dark stormy cloud, is in danger of raining prematurely.

4:00 PM - 5:45 PM: Desperte Con Un Sueno / I Woke Up With A Dream
Pablo Solarz | Argentina-Uruguay | Fiction | 2023 | 80 min | NY Premiere

Followed by a Q&A with director Pablo Solarz

Felipe is a teenager who spends his days riding a bike with friends along the empty streets of the beach town where they live, rapping freestyle and taking acting classes behind his mother’s back. Faced with the chance to audition for a film, he escapes to the capital city and meets his paternal grandmother after not seeing her since his father’s death, and puts together the pieces of his past.

6:00 PM - 7:40 PM: Pedágio / Toll
Carolina Markowicz | Brazil-Portugal | Fiction | 2023 | 102 min  | NY Premiere

Suellen, a Brazilian toll booth attendant and mother, falls in with a gang of thieves in an attempt to keep her family afloat. In doing so, she realizes she can use her job to raise some extra money illegally for a so-called noble cause: to send her son to an expensive gay conversion workshop led by a renowned foreign priest. But she unwittingly triggers a chain of events that will leave no one happy, except maybe the thieves.

8:00 PM - 9:50 PM: Una Noche Con Los Rolling Stones / A Night With The Rolling Stones
Patricia Ramos | Cuba-Nicaragua | Fiction | 2023 | 92 min | US Premiere

Followed by a Q&A with director Patricia Ramos

Rita, in the midst of a midlife crisis, decides to end a relationship that’s been going nowhere and embark on a quest for new love in the days leading up to the historic concert of The Rolling Stones in Havana.

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