7 Days in Havana15

This is a contemporary portrait of a vital and forward-looking city, seen through the eyes of seven international filmmakers. Each director focuses on one day, while the narratives and characters intersect in a portmanteau feature which is in turns amusing, passionate, insightful and surprising. Highlights include Pablo Trapero’s segment which stars Emir Kusturica as himself, a drunken Serbian director arriving in Havana for the film festival but instead spending the night at a jam session; Gaspar Noé’s cinematic and sexually charged tale about a lesbian schoolgirl and a santoria exorcism; and Juan Carlos Tabío’s domestic drama that pulls us into the world of a Havana tenement slum with all its humour, poignancy and ever-present musical rhythms.