Postproduction Begins for Short Film "El balcón de enfrente"

The fiction short film "El balcón de enfrente" by director Karla Andux is currently in the postproduction phase after having been filmed last April.

The work is a winner of the seventh call of the Cuban Film Development Fund (FFCC) and addresses gender violence, in this case from a more symbolic point of view.

With a screenplay by the director herself, "El balcón de enfrente" tells the story of Valia, a writer who feels exhausted by a relationship going nowhere. She is a victim of symbolic and psychological violence at the hands of her husband, Rodrigo.

After yet another argument with her husband, she goes out onto the street-level balcony and catches the gaze of a young man who watches her attentively and with interest. On several occasions, Valia's eyes meet those of her neighbor across the street, until one day she decides to cross the street and seek out that young man who observes her from the balcony opposite.

With performances by Giselle Sobrino as Valia, José Luis Hidalgo as Rodrigo, and Luis Ángeles León as Dani, the short film featured cinematography by Rafael Solís, a creator with extensive work in this specialty for Cuban and international cinema.

The production team also included producer Milton Alvarado and other specialists with long careers in Cuban cinema, who contributed to ensuring that the technical and artistic team took on this work and managed to film it during times of great complexity for executing this type of project.

Andux graduated in Social Communication from the University of Havana and has worked on several projects as an assistant director. "El balcón de enfrente" is her first work as a director.