Paula Ali

Drama Series - 2016, 16 episodes • as Mujer de Rangel

As Havana slowly revolves through the year, wistful detective Mario Conde probes the sultry heart of the city to investigate dark and deadly crimes.

Movie - 1997, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

Biopic about revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara.

Movie - 2024, 2h 15m • as @siri

In Havana, in a Wi-Fi park, four young people alienated from everyday life surf the virtual world through their profiles; but they will come into conflict with the reality that surrounds them and with the image they want to project to others.

Movie - 1997, 2h 15m • as Ernesto's Mother

The architecture student Estela (Silvia Aguila) makes a suicide attempt after her plans for solving Havana's housing shortage are rejected. This brings her into contact with earthy, cynical hospital nurse Ernesto (Jorge Perugorria). Estela invites him home for dinner, and he succeeds in offending everyone present. Unable to find a quiet spot to be alone, they finally find a squatters' tenement, where their sexual frenzy causes a ceiling to collapse. They next try vertical love in a stalled elevator, trapping people in the modern building minus stairs. Fleeing responsibilities, they stage a romantic rendezvous alongside a country river, but once again they are interrupted as Cuban commissars arrive with papers and forms because the couple constructs a hut beneath a bridge. Amid the misadventures, lust turns to love

Movie - 2011, 2h 15m • as Chicha

Every weekend at an illegal drag show in the suburbs of Havana, Sebastián, a 17-year-old Cuban teenager, transforms into 'Mila Caos', his empowered, flamboyant alter-ego. When he returns to his daytime self, Sebastián suffers from his mother's indifference, dreaming that one day she will see him on stage for who he truly is.

Movie - 2025, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

The story of Iluminada, a woman who, having studied to be a literature teacher, ends up working as an usher in an iconic cinema in Havana.

Movie - 2001, 2h 15m • as Cuca

Carla, a young postal worker in Havana, spends her days postmarking thousands of letters and dreaming of the day when she can be reunited with her parents, who moved to Miami when she was fifteen. To fulfill her longing for intimacy, she opens random letters and rewrites them into lyrical prose, believing she is helping her fellow Cubans understand one another better. Beautifully filmed in black and white accented by brilliant colours, Nada+ has a stunning visual composition. With its delightful mix of visual humour, theatrical characters, satire and a lighthearted love story, it has a distinctly Cuban flair.

Movie - 2010, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

Revolves around a love triangle that later evolves into a love square involving three Cubans and a Soviet soldier. Set in a fictitious rural village near a Soviet military base in central Cuba, their amorous adventures, or misadventures, unravel against the backdrop of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis.

Movie - 2023, 2h 15m • as Esperanza

A car accident. The victim is Nelsito, a 16-year-old autistic teenager, who has runaway from home. From his stretchter and through his imaginary pen, Nelsito reveals the dark and hidden side of all those around him: perverse children, murderous women, adorable swindling girls... Until he recovers...

Movie - 2017, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

Movie - 2015, 2h 15m • as Nita

When his estranged father returns, a hairdresser is forced to quit performing at the local drag club.

Movie - 2026, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

A Latin American horror anthology where filmmakers from conjure shadows rooted in their land, their ghosts, and their history.

Movie - 2018, 2h 15m • as Anciana

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

Movie - 1989, 2h 15m • as Comecandela

A prestigious theater group in crisis prepares for the staging of a famous love tragedy. Mirtha, an actress marked by frustration, decides to leave the theater when a guest conductor offered a starring role. The incorporation of young actors, unscrupulous, and an inspector trigger a series of situations that will endanger the reputation and power of the actress who heads the group.

Movie - 2024, 2h 15m • as La Ponce

Located in deep Spain at the beginning of the 20th century, the work reveals a traditional society where violence and oppression against women is exercised even by women themselves in a mimetic replica of the model imposed by patriarchal society. The presentation goes from contemporaneity to the time with the character of Bernarda and returns to the contemporaneity with that of Adela, emphasizing what we must leave in the past and the freedom that we defend for our present.

Movie - 1990, 2h 15m • as The Charwoman

In a Havana public office, the charwoman discovers the sexual activities among the workers.

Movie - 2003, 2h 15m • as Carpatera de Baracos

When his father dies, a Cuban man who was raised in the United States, learns that he was not abandoned by his mother but illegally taken out of Cuba. He goes back to the island and is helped in his search by a cousin and a taxi driver.

Movie - 2004, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

Julio del Toro is a successful writer in his fifties, who has always had his life under his control, until the day that, returning from one of his frequent foreign travel, this consistent world will fall into crisis. His daughter has started an affair with a Spanish older than him, his mistress poses a serious ultimatum, a young journalist begins to prepare a report on his work, and he faces the question if he is already finished as a creator. While Julio feels increasingly confused and disoriented, the women around him will make the decisions that he is not able to take.

Movie - 2008, 2h 15m • as Asunción

An unclaimed fortune, grown for centuries in a British bank account, becomes a potential windfall for Bernadito Castiñeiras and the residents of the tiny village of Yaragüey, Cuba. To receive his massive inheritance check, Bernadito must prove his lineage to the Castiñeiras nuns who first populated the region. In an isolated and impoverished town where many residents share the same surname, a feud breaks out between the "Castiñeiras" and "Castiñeyras" families.