THIS WEEK’S FEATURED FILM PREMIERE: "huracán” (Oct. 17-Oct. 23)
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huracán
Description
An inner hurricane summons errant images and drifting fragments of time, dragging them toward a threshold that resists form. A voice, part invocation, part echo, emerges from within the storm. Between the lived and the imagined, memory disintegrates and reconfigures, not to be understood, but to be felt. This is a ritual of passage: where chaos becomes a kind of language, where what is lost is not retrieved, but transformed, and what dies, opens.
Runtime: 5 minutes, 38 seconds
Best Viewed: Cinema Presentation
Director Biography - Héctor Almeida (Cuba, 1995) is a Cuban filmmaker, editor, and queer guajiro with a focus on exploring memory, identity, and resistance through documentary, audiovisual experimentation, and archival activation. His ethnographic work seeks to reframe the intimate as a space for collective reflection.
In 2024, he received the Prince Claus Fund SEED Award and was selected for DIP Lab (Documentary, Intimacy, and Staging) program, directed by Argentine filmmaker Manuel Abramovich, with participation from Lucrecia Martel, Petra Costa, Brigitte Vasallo, Maruja Bustamante, Marina Otero, and Marlene Wayar. His short film Para Esteban, an exploration of family memory, won the Funespaña Award and was selected for over 60 international festivals, including the Lebu International Film Festival, an Oscar and Goya qualifier. In 2025, he received the Gwaertler Stiftung Grant to create a film in collaboration with trans visual artist Nayer Ghidorah. This project delves into the concepts of family and home, focusing on the search for home within our own bodies. He is also the director of the community cultural project YerroBiejo, an initiative that articulates art, memory, and technology from a perspective of resistance and preservation.
Credits & Specifications:
Completion Date: April 20, 2025
Country of Origin: Cuba
Country of Filming: Cuba
Shooting Format: Digital
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
