Bitter Sugar

"A Smoldering Love Story!"-Riza Cruz, Vanity Fair

A visceral, energizing look at contemporary Cuba, Bitter Sugar is an impassioned love story set against the political and economic tensions of Havana.Gustavo, an idealistic young Communist with a glorified vision of Castro's regime, falls in love with Yolanda, a disenchanted dancer who longs to escape to Miami.However, Gustavo learns that love alone cannot sustain them in a city about to erupt and slowly awakens to the devastation around him.His rebellious musician brother injects himself with the AIDS virus in civil protest; his father realizes that he will earn more money as a bar-room pianist in a tourist hotel than as a doctor.

Filled with an intoxicating Latin beat and rapid camera movements, director Leon Ichaso (El Super, Sugar Hill, Miami Vice) weaves a blazing tale of romantic and political passions amid the ruins of the Cuban Revolution.