The Cuban
The Cuban is a Canadian drama film, directed by Sergio Navarretta and released in 2019. The film stars Ana Golja as Mina, a young woman working at a nursing home managed by her aunt Bano while preparing for medical school, whose outlook on life is profoundly changed when she meets and befriends Luis Garcia, a former Cuban jazz musician who has been living in the home since being diagnosed with dementia.
The film's cast also includes Lauren Holly, Giacomo Gianniotti, Shiva Negar, Jonathan Keltz and Taborah Johnson.
The film premiered on December 7, 2019 at the Whistler Film Festival, where Celiana Cárdenas won the Borsos Award for Best Cinematography in a Canadian Film. It was subsequently screened at the Pan African Film Festival in February 2020, winning the Audience Award; in April, it aired on Super Channel as part of its special program of airing the films that had been slated to run at the Canadian Film Festival prior to its cancellation in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.
It went into commercial release in July 2020.
