List of Movies in the Top
The Companion
A Cuban boxing champion fails a doping test and is sentenced to accompany an HIV-positive patient on weekly trips outside the sanatorium.
Starring: Armando Miguel Gómez, Camila Arteche, Broselianda Hernández, Yotuel Romero
Director: Pavel Giroud
The King of Havana
Young Reinaldo struggles to get by in the streets of Havana in the late 90s, one of the worst decades for Cuban society. Hopes, disillusionment, rum, good humor and above all hunger, accompany him in his wanderings, until he meets Magda and Yunisleidy.
Starring: Maykol David Tortoló, Yordanka Ariosa, Héctor Medina, Ileana Wilson, Chanel Terrero, Jazz Vila
Director: Agustí Villaronga
Boccaccerias Habaneras
Three independent stories linked to a writer's room with imaginative crisis where the people go to tell their stories hoping to someday become famous as a novel characters. A film full of sensuality, irreverence, and hidden passions.
Starring: Daniel Amat, Ulises Aquino, Yordanka Ariosa
Director: Arturo Sotto Díaz
Boleto al Paraíso
Fate makes Eunice and Alejandro meet on the road and, from that moment, they will undertake the search for Paradise together.
Starring: Miriel Cejas, Héctor Medina, Dunia Matos, Jorge Perugorría, Blanca Rosa Blanco, Fabián Mora
Director: Gerardo Chijona
August
Amid Cuba's 1994 crisis, Carlos enjoys a carefree summer with friends and first love, unaware of looming departures and fractures caused by neighbors fleeing to the US on rafts. As friendships and families splinter, Carlos's world unravels in the summer.
Starring: Damián González Guerrero, Alejandro Guerrero Machado, Glenda Delgado Dominguez, Luis Ernesto Barcenas, Rafael Lahera, Lola Amores, Verónica Lynn
Director: Armando Capó
Conducta
Aging teacher Carmela has a special heart for pupils from broken homes and is challenged by the headmaster to follow up 12 year old Chala which is infatuated in Yeni. They are both poor, and have severe home troubles.
Starring: Armando Valdés Freyre, Alina Rodríguez, Silvia Águila, Yuliet Cruz, Amaly Junco, Armando Miguel Gómez
Director: Ernesto Daranas Serrano
Un Traductor
A professor of Russian literature at the University of Havana is ordered to work as a translator for child victims of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster when they are sent to Cuba for medical treatment.
Starring: Rodrigo Santoro, Maricel Álvarez, Milda Gecaite, Nataliya Rodina
Director: Rodrigo Barriuso, Sebastián Barriuso
