Sin La Habana (aka Without Havana)

[Plays Nov. 11-16 during the Austin Jewish Film Festival; for information, log on to https://austinjff.org/event-list/.] After a talented, arrogant Cuban ballet dancer (Yonah Acosta) gets fired from his dance company in Havana in Kaveh Nabatian's engaging, award-winning, bittersweet, quirky, well-acted, unpredictable, 95-minute film highlighted by stunning cinematography, he comes up with a hasty, reckless plan with his ambitious lawyer girlfriend (Evelyn Castroda O'Farrill) to seduce a newly divorced Iranian salsa client (Aki Yaghoubi) as a way to obtain immigration papers and a ticket to Canada, but upon arriving in frigid Montreal the relationship quickly gets even more complicated as they both keep secrets and goes off the rails as he tries to make money to reunite with his true love.
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