María Salafranca

Fidel, the only gravedigger in a small Cuban village, has made the cemetery into his home. He, a simple mortal, has the mission of burying all the dead of his village.

In this short, we see a delicate and deeply moving portrait of Maria, a grieving woman. Small fragments of Maria’s life and surroundings help give the work a sense of poetry and mystery that lingers long after the end of the viewing experience.

A nocturnal portrait of Havana and its inhabitants through the songs they listen to and sing.

On the side of the road, in a quaint Cuban town, stands a funeral home in which Maurilio and Fidela, partners in work as in life, have been preparing corpses for the past seventeen years. With quietly affectionate humour, María Salafranca takes us on an offbeat tour of this discreet establishment where death and love intertwine on a daily basis.