This September 18 at Casa de América (Madrid), the Cuban 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.

The event is curated by filmmaker José Luis Aparicio. According to his own words, this exhibition can be considered a preview of “the film program of the V INSTAR Film Festival, which will take place from October 28 to November 3” in several cities around the world, including Madrid and Barcelona.

“The short films that make up this session, all premiered during the last year,” Aparicio continues, ”are just four splinters of a national landscape that is becoming more complex and fragmented every day.”

According to the show's curator, “these works explore essential issues of the contemporary Cuban experience” such as “the acute social and political crisis the country is going through; the ideological fetishism regarding the Cuban Revolution” or “the crisis of values within the family.” Likewise, these pieces explore the causes and consequences of “emigration and the unsuspected encounters it brings about.

The screening of these materials will take place on September 18, 2024, at 6:30 p.m. in the Sala Iberia of Casa de América, in Madrid. Admission is free until full capacity of 50 seats is reached and tickets will be distributed one hour before the screening begins.