Miñuca Villaverde

Directing

Miñuca Villaverde

Acting credits

Behind the camera

The Park poster
NR

A documentary portrayal of life at Havana’s Central Park in the early 1960s. Occasional visitors, entertainers, passers-by, but most specially the elders who spend here a great part of their day, watching, remembering, musing...

The Park

1963

Tent City poster
NR

The story of a group of Cubans who arrived in Miami during the Mariel Boatlift and were housed in an improvised camp in the heart of the city. Everyone lived together —men and women, homosexuals and heterosexuals, separated only by cloth curtains that hung from ropes suspended between the beds, like floating walls.

Tent City

1981

Tent City poster
NR

The story of a group of Cubans who arrived in Miami during the Mariel Boatlift and were housed in an improvised camp in the heart of the city. Everyone lived together —men and women, homosexuals and heterosexuals, separated only by cloth curtains that hung from ropes suspended between the beds, like floating walls.

Tent City

1981

Elena poster
8.0

A romantic comedy set during the waning years of the Batista dictatorship. It tells the story of a young woman, Elena, and her attempts to meet with her revolutionary lover before his forced departure into exile.

Elena

1964

Poor Cinderella, still ironing her husband shirt poster
NR

An experiment with celluloid images, based on discards from the short Blanca Putica. A Girl in Love (1973).

Poor Cinderella, still ironing her husband shirt

1978

Apollo, Man to the Moon poster
NR

Life and lives in New York City, sights and sounds of its streets and its people, at the time of man's first landing on the Moon.

Apollo, Man to the Moon

1970

Blanca Putica. A Girl in Love poster
NR

Based on the news of a sexist crime, the director and her husband stage the moments before the death of a prostitute. A film on love and making love.

Blanca Putica. A Girl in Love

1973

To My Father poster
NR

The filmmaker visits her dying father, a Cuban exile in Texas, for the last time. When she leaves, nothing remains: neither the father nor the country where she was born. A farewell letter to all that was lost and a welcome to the future.

To My Father

1973