Synopsis

A Street Named Cuba follows four women who embody both the resilience and fragility of an island in crisis. Invisible daily violence shapes their lives but never extinguishes their dreams, as together they sustain the intimate pulse of a street and a nation.

Team

• Vanessa

  Batista

  Director

  She studied Playwriting at the Higher Institute of Art in Cuba and Film Directing at the Escola de Mitjans Audiovisuals in Barcelona. Her short films Ellas (2012) and Lula (2013) received awards and were screened
  at numerous international festivals. Her feature-length documentary Those Who Stayed (2015) earned multiple accolades, was selected for festivals across Latin America, Europe, and Canada, and was broadcast on TV3 and Cuban television. She later co-directed Barcelonnabis
  (2015) and has written, directed, and edited several short films.

• Claudia

  Olivera Peña

  Producer

  Graduated in production at the Faculty of Audiovisual Communication at ISA in Havana. Attended numerous workshops at EICTV. She has produced fiction and documentary short and feature films. One of her projects as a producer is the feature film AGOSTO, had its world premiere at TIFF and its European premiere at SSIFF 2019. She is the founder of Dsafía Producciones, based in Chile and Havana.

Technical Info

Year: 2026
Format: 4K
Lenght: 93 min
Country: Chile / Cuba / México
Director: Vanessa Batista
Producer: Claudia Olivera
Production Company: DSAFÍA
Web site: A Street Named Cuba
Social media: @dsafiaproducciones
Distributor or sales agent: Freak Agency

Awards and Official Selections

Project selected at DocMontevideo 2022 Co-Production Forum
43° Miami Film Festival, *Estreno Mundial – Abril 2026
41° Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara, Estreno Latinoamericano – Abril 2026
14° Costa Rica Festival Internacional de Cine (CRFIC)
30° Festival de Cine de Lima
20° CineBH – Mostra Internacional de Cinema de Belo Horizonte
35° Festival Biarritz Amérique Latine