Miñuca Villaverde

Tent City

The story of a group of Cubans who arrived in Miami during the Mariel Boatlift and were housed in an improvised camp in the heart of the city. Everyone lived together —men and women, homosexuals and heterosexuals, separated only by cloth curtains that hung from ropes suspended between the beds, like floating walls.

The Park

A documentary portrayal of life at Havana’s Central Park in the early 1960s. Occasional visitors, entertainers, passers-by, but most specially the elders who spend here a great part of their day, watching, remembering, musing...

Elena

A romantic comedy set during the waning years of the Batista dictatorship. It tells the story of a young woman, Elena, and her attempts to meet with her revolutionary lover before his forced departure into exile.

Poor Cinderella, still ironing her husband shirt

An experiment with celluloid images, based on discards from the short Blanca Putica. A Girl in Love (1973).

A Lady’s Home Journal

The real and imaginary life of a woman. Everything happens within a single universe: her home.

Blanca Putica. A Girl in Love

Based on the news of a sexist crime, the director and her husband stage the moments before the death of a prostitute. A film on love and making love.

Apollo, Man to the Moon

Life and lives in New York City, sights and sounds of its streets and its people, at the time of man's first landing on the Moon.

To My Father

The filmmaker visits her dying father, a Cuban exile in Texas, for the last time. When she leaves, nothing remains: neither the father nor the country where she was born. A farewell letter to all that was lost and a welcome to the future.