ABOUT THE FILM
Original Title: Tuvimos el deseo de romperlo todo
Runtime: 25´ 49"
Countries: Cuba / Mexico
Language: Spanish (English subtitles)
Format: Mixed Media
Year: 2026
WE HAD THE DESIRE TO BREAK IT ALL is a documentary that moves between observation and complicity. Set initially in Havana, the film follows Ava, a trans actress who decides to take control of her own representation, inviting the director to construct a film alongside her.
What begins as an act of documentation evolves into a constant negotiation between life, performance, and fiction. Ava does not simply inhabit the camera; she tensions it, seduces it, and challenges it. Her desire is not to be documented, but to rewrite herself.
More than a traditional documentary, the film proposes an intimate relationship with its protagonist, where cinema operates as a space for affective and political experimentation.
Synopsis
“Ava and I share something in common: a persistent urge to experiment with love, to break everything apart. During an impossible summer in Havana, Ava, a young trans artist, asks me to film a fiction so she can kiss the boy she likes. We become accomplices in that impulse, using cinema as a refuge to rewrite our own story and escape a reality in crisis.”
Director´ statement
From my time in Cuba, one image returns to me again and again: myself standing, exhausted and completely lost in the streets of Havana. Suddenly, an angel appears, a trans girl with rebellion embedded in her body and a sensitivity capable of transforming what seemed impossible into a great adventure.
Cinema became a means to organize time and reconstruct worlds. This film is my memory of Ava, of our friendship and our adventures, in the midst of a city that felt as though it might cease to exist at any moment. It is a response to the void of an irreparable reality, where fantasy remains a possible place
MAIN CREDITS
Director / Writer / Cinematographer
Daniel Hernández Delgadillo
Producers
Fernando García
Daniel Hernández
Co-producer
Gal S. Castellanos
Cast
Ava González
Daniel Hernández
Marcos Fernández
Editor
Andrea Rabasa
Sound Design
Rubi J. Pérez
Executive Production
Tomasa Films
Angélica Lares
Fernando García
Associated Production
LABCAA ITESO
EICTV
