Set in the 1950s, HELLO HEMINGWAY presents the love story of two young Cuban students. Turned on to American literature by Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, Larita dreams of escaping poverty to study in the U.S. Victor, on the other hand, is more concerned with Cuban politics and economic injustice. The film won the Grand Coral-First Prize at the Havana Film Festival and was nominated for Best Spanish Language Foreign film at the Goya Awards of the Spanish Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Prior to this screening Ann Marie Stock, an authority on Cuban film and Dean of the International Studies Program at the College of William and Mary in Virginia will present a lecture on Cuban cinema and the work of Fernando Pérez.

MADAGASCAR examines the generational divide between a mother and daughter living in Havana. Young Laurita drops out of school to plan a trip to Madagascar, an African nation that becomes for her an imaginary refuge from reality. Laura, meanwhile, is exasperated and bewildered by her daughter's behavior. The film won awards at the Berlin International, Havana, and Sundance Film Festivals.

Immediately following this screening film scholar Ann Marie Stock will present film commentary and Q&A. She is an authority on Cuban film, a past juror at the Sundance Film Festival, and Dean of the International Studies Program at the College of William and Mary in Virgina. She is also the editor of a book, Framing Latin American Cinema: Contemporary Critical Perspectives (1997).