Okean (2008)

Jorge Luis Castro, Monce Duane-Gonsalez, Alina Rodríguez Ruiz, Yanaisi Ordonez-Darna, Monse Duany González

A young man looks for a new life and a new love in this drama. Joel (Jorge Luis Castro) was born and raised in a small fishing community in Cuba. While Joel loves his family and his home, he's shatter... read more ed when the woman he loves breaks up with him to marry another man chosen for her by her family. Disillusioned, Joel decides to pull up stakes and move to Havana. Joel finds that life in the Big City presents challenges he never knew at home, but before long he falls in love with Havana and finds a woman who can help mend his broken heart. Ocean was the first feature film from Russian writer and director Mikhail Kosyrev-Nesterov, who shot the film on location in Cuba with a skeleton crew and no permits. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi