Mirta Ibarra

This anthology film captures the vibrant spirit of the Cuban capital through seven short stories, each directed by a different international filmmaker. From an American tourist's first night in the city to a singer torn between love and career, the vignettes weave together a contemporary portrait of Havana, exploring its music, culture, and the daily struggles and joys of its people.

In a small village in Cuba news spreads that all those with a certain lat name are eligible for a mysterious inheritance.

Five housewives drink coffee together in a kitchen. They talk about supermarket special offers while playing Russian roulette. (imdb)

Marga is having a streak of bad luck. Through her friendship with Rosa, she tries to regain her self-confidence, but love interests again create conflict. It is while developing a relationship with a handsome gay sculptor ten years her junior: Iñaqui, that she starts to improve. However, Marga and Iñaqui go beyond friendship, but are frustrated by their limitations. Ultimately, the two may have to settle for an "impossible" love relationship, as their unique best road to happiness.

It is a satire about life in Cuba. The members of a funeral procession and some truckdrivers who have to take the same route begin to talk about god and the world ending up in discovering that life for both groups has many similarities as well as a lot of differences depending on the point of view. (imdb)

Diego, a cultivated, homosexual and skeptical young man, falls in love with a young heterosexual communist full of prejudices and doctrinary ideas. First come rejection and suspicion, but also fascination. Fresa y chocolate is the story of a great friendship, that is, a great love between two men, which overcomes incomprehension and intolerance.

José Luis, a young man with aspirations to become a screenwriter and film director, is dazzled when he meets the beautiful Sissy. To impress her, he introduces himself as a director looking for a non-professional actress. She, who has always dreamed of being 'discovered' but is not naive with men, pretends not to be interested. They start a love relationship in which both present themselves not as they are, but as they would like to be. (FILMAFFINITY)

Matanzas, Cuba, 1913. Two young people who are in love communicate through letters written by penman. When the young man leaves town, to become a pilot, the girl discovers she is really in love with the one who wrote the letters. (Edgar Soberon Torchia)

A theater director and script-writer falls for a female worker from the Havana docks, but his machismo, social and working conflicts, and the Cuban woman’s condition interfere with their relationship. (Letterboxd)