In his latest film Fernando Pérez, Cuba’s most important contemporary director, has created a dark comedy drama exploring perception and imagination through the eyes of a disabled autistic teenager with little means to communicate. When Nelsito is involved in an accident he observes life from his hospital bed, and imagines the dark, hidden and sometimes humorous sides of those around him – wicked children, murderous women, runaway grandmas, a swindler. Characters like these feature in five stories in the film that play with melodrama, absurdity, and black humour, and the director ensures that the spectator is never able to differentiate what is reality or the imagination of the protagonist-narrator.
Introduced by special guest from Cuba, Gladys González Martínez VP of the Cuban film institute ICAIC
BOOK TICKETS 6.30pm, Friday 21 March 2025 at The Garden Cinema, Screen 1.
El mundo de Nelsito / The World of Nelsito | Fernando Pérez | 2023, Cuba, ICAIC | 100m | 18
AWARDS Cuba entered the film in the 96th Academy Awards (2024).
CAST José Raúl Castro, Isabel Santos, Laura de la Uz, Edith Massola, Jacqueline Arenal, Carlos Luís González, Paula Alí, Yerlin Pérez.
SCREEN CUBA, 15-28 March 2026, LONDON & BEYOND 