The sun sets in Havana. Five friends gather to celebrate the return of Amadeo after 16 years. That's the synopsis of the film Return to Ithaca of French director Laurent Cantet, filmed in Cuba in just seventeen days that many of us were left wishing to see in the recently concluded International Festival of New Latin American Cinema. The film was withdrawn from the Festival program, but had been included in the Film Environments section of the official catalog of the event. This film deals about universal themes like friendship, love, loyalty, hatred, betrayal, fear and disappointment. On locations in Central Havana with the Malecon as backdrop and the ruined city in foreshortened, Amadeo´s story is told. "It deals specifically on the reunion with the Island by a Cuban who emigrated to Spain and decides to return to his country many years later. I think many will enjoy this film because it will be identifying my contemporaries. It tackles the problems of those who live in that time, which marked us the most. It is the story of a true chronicle of survival of a broken generation", declared Leonardo Padura, its screenwriter, to OnCuba. The action in Return to Ithaca...