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Wild Woman

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Director Alán González tells the story of Yolanda, a forty-year-old woman whose life upends after a violent confrontation between her husband and her lover becomes viral. Desperate to protect her son from the fallout, she sets out on an impulsive quest across the city—but finds her mother has already taken him.

Over a single day, Yolanda navigates neighborhood hostility, her own guilt, and maternal conflict in a story that confronts machismo, poverty, and social shame in contemporary Cuba. González’s debut feature employs a minimalist narrative structure and naturalistic performances, anchored by Lola Amores’s award-winning turn, to interrogate public shaming, gendered violence, and the power of maternal determination.