Hotel Nueva Isla
Filmfest 2014
Cuba, Spain 2014
Original version with English subtitles
(Original: Spanish)
German Premiere
Director: Irene Gutiérrez
Section: International Independents
The formerly luxurious Hotel Nueva Isla of Old Havana is now in ruins, but it is home to people living on the fringes of society: Jorge, a retired public servant and two neighbors, Waldo and La Flaca. With almost no contact with the outside world, Jorge resembles a Don Quixote gone astray and definitely forgotten. Day by day his health and body weaken like the walls of Hotel Nueva Isla. Abandoned by his offspring and by the women he was with, his only motivation is to follow a secret revelation he's had for years: he is convinced that somewhere in the dilapidated hotel the former owners hid valuables before fleeing the triumphant victors of the Cuban Revolution. But life inside the ruins has become dangerous and while its other tenants look for a safer place, Jorge decides to stay...
With: Jorge de los Ríos, Josefina Patterson, Waldo Ramírez, Marian Pacheco, Vivian Pacheco
Credits
Screenplay: Irene Gutiérrez, Javier Labrador, Lorenzo Mora
Director of Photography: Javier Labrador
Film Editor: Lorenzo Mora
Sound: Carlos García
Producer: José Alayón
Production Company: El Viaje Films
Co-Producer: Claudia Calviño
World Sales: El Viaje Films
Director: Irene Gutiérrez
