USA | Documentary | Spanish | 79 min | 2016. 
A film by Orlando Rojas

She was the very pinnacle of grace, power and talent—yet for years Rosario Suárez, the former prima ballerina of the Ballet Nacional de Cuba, was only showcased on the ballet’s Thursday programs, and rarely in weekend performances. This went on for so long that Rosario became known as la reina de los jueves: the Queen of Thursdays.

Her career in Havana remained for years in the shadow of the all-powerful founder, director and Prima Ballerina Assoluta, Alicia Alonso. When Rosario finally became prima ballerina, long after she had reached the age where most dancers retired, a family crisis brought her to Miami. And exile.

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Knight Foundation Documentary Achievement Award. Miami International Film Festival 2016.

KEYWORDS: Cuba | Ballet | Art |  Biography | Exile | Cuban Diaspora

Cuba - Colombia | Fiction-Docu hybrid | Spanish | 85 min | 2016
Directed by KIKI ÁLVAREZ

Third part of a trilogy formed by “Jirafas” (Rotterdam 2013) and “Venecia” (Toronto 2014)

 Havana, December 2014. A director is seeking an actress for the role of Stella in a “A Streetcar Named Desire”. Suddenly, the announcement that Cuba and the United States are restoring diplomatic relations irrupts into the ordinarily weightless everyday lives of a group of actors getting ready for the casting.

“In ‘Sharing Stella,’ youth which no longer believes in politics meets Cuba on the verge of a transcendental shift in its relationship with U.S.. Characters include “a YouTuber without Internet, a director who looks for desire and an actress who is a beast in the jungle of the Caribbean’s post-socialism,”  VARIETY

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Post Production Award. Havana International Film Festival 2015.

KEYWORDS: Cuba-US relations | Acting | Women issues | Contemporary Urban Life

Panama | Drama-Thriller | 95 min | 2016
Directed by Ricardo Aguilar Navarro & Manolito Rodríguez (directorial debut)
With Alina Rodríguez (BEHAVIOR) 

The story of a young man coming home to Panama for the first time since his childhood exile and becoming ensnared in his criminal father’s troubled legacy. Salsipuedes is a well-crafted drama seething with deadly underworld politics, police corruption and family secrets. IFF Panama

“A diamond in the rough..”  Jonathan Holland THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

Best Central American and Caribbean Film Audience Award. IFF Panamá 2016

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KEYWORDS: First Film | Central America & Caribbean | Urban Life | Barrio | Machismo | Corruption| Social issues