Movies by Ileana Wilson
La Abuela (The Grandmother)
Susana leaves her life in Paris, where she works as a model, and returns to Madrid to take care of her grandmother Pilar.
The Wedding
Mirta is Cuban and lives in Madrid. As many others immigrants she works in cleaning industry. Today at six o'clock p.m. her daughter is going to marry. But nothing turns out as she hopes, and to reach this wedding is more difficult than it appeared at first sight.
Fidel
Cuba, as we knew it, is dying. The US Embassy has just opened in Cuba, and the Cuban in the USA after 54 years. Cubans are craving to be connected to the Internet, buy at Zara, eat at Burger King and have Apple gadgets Nevertheless, Fidel, the leader of the Revolution, is alone and hiding. He is, like Cuba, in decline.
Maité
Amigo, no gima
This is a short story about an old Spanish man, who is about to sell his shop in Barrio De Llavapies, in Madrid set in 2003 on the 1st of February. This film shows life from the viewpoint of two ethnic groups an immigrant who has a run in with an old white Spanish man who has racist views and is meant to one of the last white shop owners in this Barrio.
The King of Havana
Recently escaped from reformatory, Reinaldo struggles to get by in the streets of Havana in the late 90s, one of the worst decades for Cuban society. Hopes, disillusionment, rum, good humor and above all hunger, accompany him in his wanderings, until he meets Magda and Yunisleidy, survivors like himself. In one or the other's arms, he will try to escape the material and moral misery surrounding him, living love, passion, tenderness and uninhibited sex to the limit.