IFFI Kurzfilmprogramm Retrospektive I

OSCUROS RINOCERONTES ENJAULADOS (1990, Cuba)
A cleaner at a public institution discovers the sexual excesses of the management. Then all hell breaks loose. Bursting with ideas and experimental elements, Juan Carlos Cremata, a filmmaker from the first generation of EICTV graduates, parodies the Cuban bureaucracy.

GENTE QUE LLORA S.A. (2001, Cuba)
A woman is weeping at a grave when her alarm clock rings. She is a professional mourner – an agency assigns her cases, which she then routinely works through one by one at the cemetery. Then something happens that shouldn’t happen: she meets her next client in person.

BAJO HABANA (2003, Cuba)
Two young men want to buy marijuana and head to the flat of the black drug dealer Nene. However, what follows is not a simple transaction, but a double-edged, twist-filled game in which it soon becomes unclear who is up to what here.

PARAÍSO EXTRAVIADO (2003, Cuba)
Martín is on holiday in Cuba with his wife. When she leaves him, this life-changing event triggers a cascade of events – true to the motto: things can always get worse.

EL AÑO DEL CERDO (THE YEAR OF THE PIG) (2008, Cuba)
Chang Rodríguez, a food delivery driver in Havana’s Chinatown, has high hopes for the Year of the Pig and the changes it may bring. Twelve years ago, during the last Year of the Pig, he unwittingly set a series of events in motion – and now fate is set.

SIRENAS (2015, Cuba)
An ant nest in the cupboard brings an exterminator into the quiet life of Felicia and her two daughters. The older daughter, Zoe, is suspicious of the intruder, who is making advances towards her mother, and comes up with a plan to get rid of him. In the process, childish worries and fantasy become intertwined.