Section: Focus

Hotel Nueva Isla

Irene Gutiérrez

Cuba, Spain, 2014, 71 Min

The Grand Hotel in the heart of Havana is in danger of collapse. Only one last inhabitant remains within the crumbling walls, convinced there are ever more valuable objects from the hotel's former guests to be found.

El Viaje Films

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In its heyday the Nueva Isla was a luxury hotel for the Cuban upper classes. The derelict building, meanwhile deserted by its former inhabitants, now serves as nothing more than an asylum for the homeless. These number Jorge, whose skin bears witness to the hardship he has experienced over the years; leading the existence of a Don Quixote-like figure, he knows all the nooks and crannies of the hotel precinct, making up as they do the essence of his parallel existence. With the date of the building's scheduled demolition approaching, Jorge refuses to leave in the firm conviction that the disappearance of the hotel will mark the end of a way of life. WMH

Filmformat
DCP | Farbe / colour

Drehbuch
Irene Gutiérrez, Javier Labrador, Lorenzo Mora

Kamera
Javier Labrador

Ton
Carlos E. García

Schnitt
Lorenzo Mora

Musik
Carlos García

Darsteller
Jorge De Los Ríos, Viviany Marian Pacheco, Waldo Muñoz Hernández, Josefina Patterson

Produzent
José A. Alayón Dévora, Claudia Calviño

Produktion
Producciones de la 5ta Avenida

Co-Produktion
El Viaje Films, Cienfuegos Prods.

Kontakt
El Viaje Films
José Alayón
Salvia 6, La Camella, Arona
38640 Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Spain
Tel.: +34.615.19.33 21
jose@elviaje.es
www.elviaje.es

Irene Gutiérrez - born 1977 in Tenerife, Spain. She graduated in documentary film from the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba, where she now lectures. A freelance filmmaker, she also works as director of photography, editor, sound designer in both Spain and Cuba.

Movies
SOBRE VÍAS. LA HABANA-SANTIAGO DE CUBA (2004, short, doc)
DIARIOS DE FRONTERA (2013, short, doc)

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