Cuba Today: films, conversation and special guests

Screenings of three short films by Cuban "rock punk" director and political satirist Eduardo Del Llano.

Brainstorm I 26m I 2009

A world record, an accident, a heroic act, a fact of scientific interest. All this happens simultaneously. The board of directors of the newspaper 'La Avanzada' must decide what goes on the cover.

Domino I 22m I 2017

The 13th short film from Eduardo del Llano in the Nicanor series. Nicanor is worried because the rumor circulating in his neighborhood that the Cuban government is reaching an agreement with an Arab Sheikh to sell Cuba to him. While playing dominoes and drinking rum with some friends from a nearby apartment block, he finds out that they are offering 5 billion USD for the island.

Read the Havana Times review here

La Campaña | 30m I 2021

Felipe, a young brigadier, arrives at a hut lost among the hills somewhere in Cuba. It is 1961, in the middle of the Literacy Campaign. To their surprise, the peasant family turns out to be atypical in more ways than one.

After the films, audiences have the opportunity to ask Del Llano questions during an informative Q&A session.