Directing

Rolando Díaz

Born

1947-08-13 (79)

Place of birth

La Habana - Cuba

Known for

Directing

Credits

31 titles

Known for

Film credits

Behind the camera

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Cercanía

2004

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Cercanía

2004

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La vida en rosa

1989

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La vida en rosa

1989

Havana Blues poster
6.4

When Spanish record producers express interest in Cuban musicians Ruy and Tito, the longtime friends are faced with the prospect of leaving their loved ones behind. After years of hoping and dreaming, they've finally earned the opportunity to bring their music to the rest of the world. But are the emotional trade-offs worth it in the end?

Havana Blues

2005

Farwell Cuba poster
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Caridad (Yuliet Cruz) is a Cuban playwright in exile in Valencia, Spain. She is committed to writing a play about the Cuban exodus from the island. To this end, she intends to engage in dialogue with women and men who recount their migratory experiences, during which they risked their lives. The film powerfully expresses her profound perspective on uprootedness, nostalgia, and loss.

Farwell Cuba

2025

Farwell Cuba poster
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Caridad (Yuliet Cruz) is a Cuban playwright in exile in Valencia, Spain. She is committed to writing a play about the Cuban exodus from the island. To this end, she intends to engage in dialogue with women and men who recount their migratory experiences, during which they risked their lives. The film powerfully expresses her profound perspective on uprootedness, nostalgia, and loss.

Farwell Cuba

2025

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Los Caminos de Aissa

2013

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Los Caminos de Aissa

2013

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La vida según Ofelia

2007

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La vida según Ofelia

2007

En tres y dos poster
5.7

A famous baseball player faces retirement and the conflicts it causes in his professional and family life until the night he must play for the last time.

En tres y dos

1985

En tres y dos poster
5.7

A famous baseball player faces retirement and the conflicts it causes in his professional and family life until the night he must play for the last time.

En tres y dos

1985

Dossier de ausencias poster
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A young journalist searches for a woman, Moraima (now 36), who was given up for adoption when she was two years old and whose family has known nothing about her since. In the process of investigating in a remote area of the Dominican Republic where children being put up for adoption is common, she finds other cases that plunge her into a roller coaster of emotions. The long and complicated investigation leads her to a town, El Seybo, where she will make many discoveries.

Dossier de ausencias

2020

Dossier de ausencias poster
NR

A young journalist searches for a woman, Moraima (now 36), who was given up for adoption when she was two years old and whose family has known nothing about her since. In the process of investigating in a remote area of the Dominican Republic where children being put up for adoption is common, she finds other cases that plunge her into a roller coaster of emotions. The long and complicated investigation leads her to a town, El Seybo, where she will make many discoveries.

Dossier de ausencias

2020

El largo viaje de Rústico poster
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Rústico País, an old Canarian peasant who emigrated to Cuba, with his special sensitivity and sparkling vision of life, immerses us fully in the essence of the human being.

El largo viaje de Rústico

1993

El largo viaje de Rústico poster
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Rústico País, an old Canarian peasant who emigrated to Cuba, with his special sensitivity and sparkling vision of life, immerses us fully in the essence of the human being.

El largo viaje de Rústico

1993

Redonda y viene en caja cuadrada poster
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In a satirical tone, multiple unexpected actions during a ball game and the reactions of the public are captured. In search of the unusual, the documentary ventures outside the field of this sport.

Redonda y viene en caja cuadrada

1979

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After fleeing Cuba with his family when he was 7, Dallas artist Rolando Diaz returns to Havana to revisit his old neighborhood and learn more about the contemporary art scene in the city.

Recapturing Cuba: An Artist's Journey

2007

If You Only Understood poster
8.0

Si me Comprendieras refers to the tradition of Bolero, as the original intention of the director was to make a musical film. This proved to be difficult for a Cuban living in Spain, as the search for appropriate dancers revealed the grim realities these black women lived each day -- oppressive family relationships, unemployment which forces them into prostitution, the general hopelessness of young Cubans and the subtle racism which is officially denied. In this docu-drama, a Cuban director and scriptwriter embarks upon a journey to search for a black or half-caste dancer and singer to play the central role in his latest film, a musical comedy. The audience witnesses the experiences of the film crew from their point of view, behind the camera. Through the questions they pose to the auditioning actresses and their responses, the reality of Cuba is revealed.

If You Only Understood

1999

If You Only Understood poster
8.0

Si me Comprendieras refers to the tradition of Bolero, as the original intention of the director was to make a musical film. This proved to be difficult for a Cuban living in Spain, as the search for appropriate dancers revealed the grim realities these black women lived each day -- oppressive family relationships, unemployment which forces them into prostitution, the general hopelessness of young Cubans and the subtle racism which is officially denied. In this docu-drama, a Cuban director and scriptwriter embarks upon a journey to search for a black or half-caste dancer and singer to play the central role in his latest film, a musical comedy. The audience witnesses the experiences of the film crew from their point of view, behind the camera. Through the questions they pose to the auditioning actresses and their responses, the reality of Cuba is revealed.

If You Only Understood

1999

If You Only Understood poster
8.0

Si me Comprendieras refers to the tradition of Bolero, as the original intention of the director was to make a musical film. This proved to be difficult for a Cuban living in Spain, as the search for appropriate dancers revealed the grim realities these black women lived each day -- oppressive family relationships, unemployment which forces them into prostitution, the general hopelessness of young Cubans and the subtle racism which is officially denied. In this docu-drama, a Cuban director and scriptwriter embarks upon a journey to search for a black or half-caste dancer and singer to play the central role in his latest film, a musical comedy. The audience witnesses the experiences of the film crew from their point of view, behind the camera. Through the questions they pose to the auditioning actresses and their responses, the reality of Cuba is revealed.

If You Only Understood

1999

Camino a Higüey poster
6.0

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Camino a Higüey

2016

Melodrama poster
8.0

Rolando Díaz's comedic Melodrama follows Esperanza, a dying newscaster, desperate to have a child through whatever means necessary - even if it means bypassing her husband and sleeping with her fellow coworker or a local librarian.

Melodrama

1996

Melodrama poster
8.0

Rolando Díaz's comedic Melodrama follows Esperanza, a dying newscaster, desperate to have a child through whatever means necessary - even if it means bypassing her husband and sleeping with her fellow coworker or a local librarian.

Melodrama

1996

Tables Turned poster
7.9

A young couple find out that their parents (her father and his mother) are having a romance. A series of problems arise because the young couple can't accept that relationship.

Tables Turned

1984

Tables Turned poster
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A young couple find out that their parents (her father and his mother) are having a romance. A series of problems arise because the young couple can't accept that relationship.

Tables Turned

1984

An Elephant On A Spider Web poster
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As veteran filmmaker Rolando Díaz confronts his own aging, he turns his lens on unforgettable Spanish centenarian Simona Hoyo, reckoning with what it means when the body keeps going long after the soul grows tired in this colorful and poignant new documentary.

An Elephant On A Spider Web

2022

An Elephant On A Spider Web poster
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As veteran filmmaker Rolando Díaz confronts his own aging, he turns his lens on unforgettable Spanish centenarian Simona Hoyo, reckoning with what it means when the body keeps going long after the soul grows tired in this colorful and poignant new documentary.

An Elephant On A Spider Web

2022