Rolando Díaz

An Elephant On A Spider Web (2022)

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 documen ...

Dossier de ausencias (2020)

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 childre ...

Camino a Higüey (2016)

Recapturing Cuba: An Artist's Journey (2007)

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. ...

Jeepers Creepers (2001)

On a desolate country highway, two homeward-bound teens are nearly run off the road by a maniac in a beat-up truck, and later spot him shoving what appears to be a body down a sewer pipe. ...

If You Only Understood (1999)

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 bl ...

Melodrama (1996)

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. ...

El largo viaje de Rústico (1993)

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. ...

En tres y dos (1985)

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. ...

Tables Turned (1984)

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. ...

Recapturing Cuba: An Artist's Journey (2007)

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. ...