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HOTEL NUEVA ISLA

By Irene GUTIÉRREZ

Documentary - Completed 2014

Despite the building's imminent collapse, the last inhabitant of a once luxurious hotel refuses to leave: he remains convinced that treasures, hidden by the hotel's original owners, lie waiting within its walls.

Festivals
& Awards

San Sebastian FF 2014

Co-production Forum - Director's Previous Works

Rotterdam IFFR 2014

Bright Future

Chicago IFF 2014

Official Section

Rdoc 2014

Best Centroamerican Film

Jeonju International Film Festival 2014

International Competition & Special Jury Award

Münich IFF 2014

International Independents

Moscow IFF 2014

Anima Latina

Toulouse Reencontres Latinos 2014

Otra Mirada

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- Year of production
- 2014
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- SPAIN, CUBA
- Languages
- SPANISH
- Budget
- 0 - 0.3 M$
- Duration
- 71 mn
- Director(s)
- Irene GUTIÉRREZ
- Writer(s)
- Irene GUTIÉRREZ, Javier LABRADOR, Lorenzo MORA
- Cast
- Jorge DE LOS RÍOS, Josefina PATTERSON, Waldo RAMÍREZ, Marian PACHECO, Vivian PACHECO
- Producer(s)
- Jose ALAYÓN (EL VIAJE FILMS), Claudia CALVIÑO (LA 5TA AVENIDA)
- Synopsis
- The formerly luxurious Hotel Nueva Isla of Old Havana is now in ruins, but it is home for 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 in some place of the ruinous hotel the former owners hid valuable objects before fleeing with the triumph 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 the building.

HOTEL NUEVA ISLA

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