7 Days in Havana will be a Cuban-set drama made up of seven vignettes helmed by seven different directors. (Think Paris Je T’aime.) According to Deadline, the slate of directors include Laurent Cantet (The Class), Gaspar Noe (Enter the Void), Elia Suleiman (The Time That Remains), Pablo Trapero (Lion’s Den), Julio Medem (Sex and Lucia), Juan Carlos Tabio (Guantanamera), and the oft enigmatic Benicio Del Toro, star of Che and The Wolfman.
This will not be Del Toro’s first time in the director’s chair, as he helmed the 1995 short Submission, which featured Matthew McConaughey. This time ’round, he has chosen The Kids Are All Right star Josh Hutcherson as his leading man. Hutcherson will play tourist in the segment titled Monday, which follows documentary-style him as he, “explores the culture of the island for the first time.”
Though Del Toro’s segment has already been shot, 7 Days in Havana is not expected to hit theaters until next year. However, we can reasonably assume it’ll start hitting festivals as early as this fall.
Are you intrigued by 7 Days?