Independent filmmaker, critic and curator born in Cuba in 1994.
He has directed the fiction short films Tundra (2021) and El Secadero (Dryland, 2019), as well as the medium-length documentary Sueños al pairo (Dreams adrift, 2020).
His films have been selected by festivals such as Sundance, Locarno, Raindance, Miami, BAFICI, Guanajuato, Curta Cinema and NewFilmmakers LA.
Tundra was awarded at Fantaspoa, New Jersey, New York City Independent, Pendance and the Seattle Latino film festivals.
In 2022 he was invited to Locarno’s Open Doors program and received one of the Prince Claus Seed Awards.
He is currently developing his first feature film, El Mar / The Sea, a project selected by the Spanish Film Academy Residencies, the Cinéma en Développement platform of the Cinélatino-Rencontres de Toulouse film festival, and the Nouveau Marché of the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma.
As part of the documenta fifteen in Kassel, he curated Tierra sin imágenes / Land Without Images, the largest retrospective of Cuban independent cinema to date.
Since 2021 he has been the artistic director of the INSTAR Film Festival.
Walfrido Larduet, a lonely electrical inspector, dreams of the Red Woman, whose image persists and becomes an obsession. Something tells him she is near. Over the course of a day, Walfrido will follow her trail as he travels through the suburbs of an infested city.
In an alternate reality, Fidel Castro uses genetic engineering to build the new man and thus save utopia. The experiment fails as these beings are highly intelligent but also cruel and uncontrollable. Rejected by their own creators, a group organizes a series of terrorist actions, and chaos reigns on the island. One of its members traces the origin of their genes and begins a journey to try to discover their humanity.
Mike Porcel is the lost member of the Cuban Nueva Trova musical movement. His lack of “revolutionary spirit” condemned him to the scorn of his peers and made him a pariah for a decade, until he managed to go into exile. Without resentment, but without forgetting, the film reconstructs his story and revives a forgotten brilliance.