Cuban filmmaker Jorge Molina graduates with a gold degree from the Higher Institute of Art of Havana

The Cuban actor and directorJorge MolinaHe graduated this Wednesday with a gold degree from the Higher Institute of Art of Havana, at the age of 57.

"Today, after more than 30 years and after graduating from generations of filmmakers and artists, I graduate from the Higher Institute of Art in Havana," he said in a scathing post by where he criticized the institutions in Cuba.

The filmmaker considered his gold title "more than gold, it is multiplatinum, he is an honorary doctor," on an island where institutions do not respect the careers of artists.

"It's funny, sad and beautiful at the same time. I have spent my entire life making art with passion and honesty, passing on my knowledge to several generations. I have been a true influencer for many filmmakers, actors and people who love art, a true influencer, not an idiot with millions of followers," he said.

In this regard, he said that "it is crazy that although your work precedes you and speaks for you, you have to show a role so that they respect you at an institutional level, clearly from power or of course."

At the end of his message he said he felt like Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate: "Just right now, I would like a Miss Robinson, Anne Bancroff waiting in my room!!!" he commented.

Molina studied filmmaking at the Moscow State Film Institute and later returned to Cuba to studydirection at the International School of Film and TV of San Antonio de los Baños, graduating in 1992.

Over the years he became a cult director, with a work that ranges from horror, science fiction or erotic cinema. He is one of the few Cuban filmmakers who ventures into fantasy and horror cinema, in addition to incorporating a high sexual component in his films.

Molina's work is totally marginalized by the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry (ICAIC) and its distribution circuits, being distributed through the alternative market of the Caribbean nation.

Born in the eastern province of Santiago de Cuba in 1966, he said inInterview withCyberCuba A few years ago he considered himself an "alternative filmmaker."

Among his works is the short filmRebeca, inspired by the storyThe GreenHouse, by the French writer Guy de Maupassant.Rebeca belongs to a trilogy made up ofMargarita, a very free version ofHe Master and Margaret, by the former USSR writer Mikhail Bulgakov andAlicia, inspired by the shocking storyThe feather pillow, by the Uruguayan Horacio Quiroga.

Molina has worked with important actors and actresses of Cuban cinema such as Paula Alí, Roberto Perdomo, Dayana Legrá, or Yuliet Cruz, who have seen in him a director who, beyond the themes he addresses, tries to expand the borders of Cuban cinema.