Screen Cuba presents the UK premiere of this innovative film that is under the general direction of renowned filmmaker, Fernando Peréz. It comprises six independent short films by young emerging directors which reveal that while everything seems to stop during the COVID pandemic, the human spirit lives on. Made in just 28 days, with four women amongst the six directors, each piece tells how individuals survive the anguish and uncertainty of the harsh days of lockdown. The films share the common theme of love as feelings of sadness, loneliness, fear, anger and hope are explored. A young girl tries to protect her pet dove; Paloma arrives at a decaying house; ex-prisoner Ernesto begins work at a quarantined cinema; Mara delivers drinks to people’s homes; Gaby takes photographs from her balcony; Gallo, disturbs his neighbours with his trumpet playing.

The film consists of: La trenza, by Rosa María Rodríguez; The girl with the birds, by Alán González; Mercury, by Carolina Vega; He and She, by Yoel Infante; The days, by Katherine T. Gavilán and Sheyla Pool; and Gallo, by Eduardo Eimil.

Cuentos de un día más/ Tales of One More Day | Fernando Peréz, general direction| Cuba 2021 | 105m | Spanish with English subtitles | 18

BOOK TICKETS 8pm, Friday 22 March 2024 at The Garden Cinema.

Tráiler del largometraje cubano “Cuentos de un día más” (youtube.com)