Calle Cuba (Cuba, Chile, Mexico, 2026, 95′)

Italian subtitles

Sunday 11 October, 5 p.m., Cinema Massimo, Screen 3, Via Giuseppe Verdi, 18

In collaboration with Cinetrab and Festival de Cinema de Lima PUCP.

On Sunday 11 October at 5 p.m. at Cinema Massimo, Screen 3, Job Film Days, in collaboration with Cinetrab and Festival de Cinema de Lima PUCP, presents Calle Cuba by Vanessa Batista, winner of the ILO-Cinetrab Award at the 2026 Festival de Cine de Lima. On Calle Cuba in Old Havana, four women from different generations reveal, through their lives, the fragility and resilience of a country in crisis. The documentary was recognised for its realistic and humane approach to the world of work through women’s experiences, making visible care work and other forms of labour that, although essential to everyday life, are not always recognised as such.

The event is introduced by Carmen Benitez (Cinetrab).

Admission: tickets required.

Italian premiere

International title: A Street Named Cuba
Original title: Calle Cuba
Director: Vanessa Batista
Screenplay: Vanessa Batista, Guillermo Barberà
Photography: Guillermo Barberà
Edit: Joanna Montero
Sound: Damián Rubiera, Aldonza Contreras Castro
Production: Claudia Olivera, Vanessa Batista, Ivonne Gutiérrez

In Calle Cuba, in the Old Havana district, four women from different generations embody resilience as much as the fragility of an island in crisis. Anabel, a young aspiring actress, is conflicted between continuing her life in Cuba and migrating to Europe to work as a housekeeper. The thirty year-old transgender Dayana dreams of going to Russia and changing his sex to become the woman who has always felt to be. Mailén, mother of three, carries the childhood wound with her and a relationship marked by violence, while she fights to support her family with optimism. The seventy year-old Elvira takes care of her sick husband. 

Calle Cuba, in its Italian premiere, won the ILO-CINETRAB Award at Festival de Cine in Lima as best movie of the Latin-American documentary contest. 

Vanessa Batista. She studied dramaturgy at the Instituto Superior de Arte in Cuba and direction at Escola de Mitjans Audiovisuals in Barcelona. Her short films Ellas and Lula have participated in numerous international festivals gaining awards. In 2014, she co-directed the long feature documentary Barcelonabis. The following year, she signed her first long feature documentary done alone, Los que se quedaron, presented in festivals in Latin America, Europe and Canada. She also wrote, directed and edited various short movies.

Partial filmography: Ellas (sf, doc., 2012), Lula (sf, 2013), Barcelonabis (doc., 2014, co-director Andros Barroso), Los que se quedaron (doc., 2015), ONA (sf, 2017), Calle Cuba (doc., 2026).