The productions *Cinco historias de amor y un boleron desesperado* (Five Love Stories and a Desperate Bolero), by filmmaker Arturo Santana, and *Neurotica anonima* (Anonymous Neurotic), directed by actor and filmmaker Jorge Perugorria, are participating in the festival’s fiction category.

  Meanwhile, Luis Ernesto Donas’ debut feature, *Baracoa*, is being presented as a special screening at the event, which was founded in 2003 by the late filmmaker Humberto Solas.

  Santana’s feature film presents a range of characters seeking happiness in the face of loneliness, while Perugorria’s work explores the life of an elderly woman confronting a crisis in her surroundings.

  Donas’ film highlights a “simple” aesthetic through a symbolic journey from Havana to the easternmost tip of Cuba, where the protagonists seek to build a future based on human connection.

  The film festival maintains its long-standing mission of showcasing low-budget cinema with high artistic value, promoting cultural decolonization and emerging talent rooted in the realities of the Global South.

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