Jorge Perugorría and Mirtha Ibarra's 'Neurótica anónima' opens in Cuban theaters as a Goya contender

Foto: Photo: Prensa Latina

October 25, 2026

Neurótica anónima, the feature directed by Jorge Perugorría and starring Mirtha Ibarra, opened in Cuba on Friday, October 16, at the Cine Yara on 23rd and L in Havana's Vedado district, kicking off a nationwide run. Moviegoers braved the rain to fill the theater, according to the Cuban News Agency (ACN) and Prensa Latina, and the film is screening daily at the Yara at 5 p.m.

The film is Cuba's submission for Best Ibero-American Film at the 41st Goya Awards. ICAIC president Alexis Triana highlighted that Cuba is among the 19 finalist countries. "I was truly surprised, stunned," Ibarra said of the nomination and the film's reception abroad. Perugorría, a National Film Award winner, said he was "very happy" and credited mentors such as Tomás Gutiérrez Alea and Juan Carlos Tabío with teaching him to look at reality with humor.

Based on Ibarra's own stage play, the story follows Iluminada, an usher who has spent three decades at a Havana movie house facing closure, married to an alcoholic husband played by Roberto Perdomo. The cast also includes Joel Angelino, Carmen Ruiz, Andrea Doimeadiós and Tahimí Alvariño, along with the late Paula Alí and Mario Limonta. It is a co-production with Mexico.

The film has already screened at the Málaga Film Festival, the Havana Film Festival New York and Biarritz, and on October 20 it played to a full house at the Latin American and Caribbean Film Festival in Bern, Switzerland, Prensa Latina reported.

Fuente: Prensa Latina / Agencia Cubana de Noticias (ACN)

Jorge Perugorría Rodríguez

Arts, Actor, Painter, Director, Society

===BODY=== Pichi was born in Havana in the Wajay, Boyeros municipality, Havana, where he spent his childhood and adolescence. His first steps as an actor began in an amateur group while he was in middle school. His work as an actor begins in Cuba at age 17, starring in important works of Cuban and universal theater.

Basilia Mirtha Ibarra Collado

Arts, Actress, Screenwriter, Theater, Film, Society

Cuban actress of theater, television, and cinema. She was born in the small town of San José de las Lajas, 30 km southeast of La Habana. She studied at the National School of Arts of Cuba and graduated in Latin American Literature from the University of La Habana.