Héctor Medina
8 titles
Filmography
8 results

Viva
(2015)When the estranged father of an aspiring drag performer abruptly re-enters his son’s life, the men must battle their prejudices to become a family.
The Human Thing
(2016)A young thief steals a masterpiece manuscript and submits it to a writing contest.

Los Frikis
(2024)In 1990s Cuba, where Fidel Castro has outlawed all rock music, a group of impoverished punk musicians dream of a life beyond oppression. Desperate for a way out, they seize on a shocking and dangerous escape—one that could grant them the freedom they crave but at the ultimate cost. Inspired by true events, Los Frikis is a gripping story of rebellion, sacrifice, and the unbreakable human spirit.

Borrowed
(2022)What starts as a date between David and Justin and possibly posing for a painting unravels into a physiological struggle for power and freedom.

The King of Havana
(2015)Recently escaped from reformatory, young Reinaldo struggles to get by in the streets of Havana in the late 90s, one of the worst decades for Cuban society. Hopes, disillusionment, rum, good humour and above all hunger, accompany him in his wanderings, until he meets Magda and Yunisleidy, survivors like himself. In one or the other's arms, he will try to escape the material and moral misery surrounding him, living love, passion, tenderness and uninhibited sex to the limit.

Resort Paraíso
(2017)Eva and Pablo are going through the worst moment of their lives, without work and without a home, they hide in the hotel where Eva works, closed during the winter season. She has all the access codes and a plan to go unnoticed, but they are soon discovered by Saul, one of the security guards, who does not intend to waste the opportunity to have fun and make it clear who is in charge.

Plantados
(2021)When Ramón discovers that Mauricio, one of the cruelest prison guards he remembers from being incarcerated in Cuba, lives in Florida, he begins to recall various traumatic instances experienced with his torturer. Along with two sons of others ex "plantados", Ramón kidnaps Mauricio and forces him to face the many cruelties he delivered.
El hombre que cuida
(2017)A caretaker of a beach house finds himself in trouble when the owner's son and his friends spend a weekend there without permission.