As part of Casa de America's programming cycle, No por corto menos cine, the exhibition Cuba: visiones de una isla fragmentada, which presents a selection of recent films by Cuban filmmakers based in Spain, will be presented starting tomorrow, Wednesday at 6:30 pm. The short films Souvenir...

The short films Souvenir (Heidi Hassan), La historia se escribe de noche (Alejandro Alonso), El espacio roto (Gabriel Alemán, Eduardo Eimil) and Cuatro hoyos (Daniela Muñoz) will be screened, followed by a discussion with the filmmakers.

To approach today's Cuba is to find a country hidden beyond its geographical limits. The short films in this session, all released in the last year, are just four splinters of an increasingly complex and fragmented national landscape.

 Using very diverse cinematographic strategies (the self-referential essay of Souvenir; the experimental dystopia of La historia se escribe de noche; the genre fiction of El espacio roto; the interactive documentary in the key of comedy of Cuatro hoyos), these works explore essential issues of the contemporary Cuban experience: the acute social and political crisis the country is going through; the ideological fetishism regarding the Cuban Revolution; the crisis of values within the family; emigration and the unsuspected encounters it brings about.

This screening also represents a new opportunity to appreciate the richness and inventiveness of Cuban independent cinema, as well as a preview of the film program of the V INSTAR Film Festival, which will take place from October 28 to November 3 in multiple cities around the world, including Madrid and Barcelona. Tickets will be distributed one hour before the screening begins. Free admission until full capacity of 50 seats is reached.