Rafael Ramirez holds a bachelor in Audiovisual Communication, by the University of the Arts, Havana, Cuba. Graduated in documentary filmmaking at EICTV (San Antonio de los Baños International Film School). His work has been part of international programs at France, Spain, Switzerland, UK, Colombia, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Chile, USA and Japan. He has directed mockumentaries: Filmar Pedro Páramo (2007), Tractatus (2008) and Diary of the Mist (Mar del Plata IFF, 2015), also the documentary short film Limbo (DocumentaMadrid, 2016) and the hybrid documentary Alona (Mar del Plata, DocumentaMadrid, 2017).
His first feature film Winter Campaigns was premiered in April, 2019 in Curacao IFF Rotterdam and he is currently developing two others feature film projects.
From September 2017 until December 2018 he coordinated the Humanities Department and the master degree in Alternative Cinema organized by the EICTV.
In May, 2019, Ramírez and greek filmmaker Athina Taka, created Mundus Subterraneus, a Society devoted to the study of the Collision.
Since 2020, Ramirez is the Head of the Master program INTERZONA for the San Antonio de Los Banos Internac Film School
Το Pabellón de Melancólicos είναι ένα ακουστικό έργο που προέρχεται από την έρευνα του συγγραφέα γύρω από ένα διάσημο ψυχιατρείο του 19ου αιώνα στην Αβάνα και τις διασυνδέσεις του με την άνοδο μιας δυστοπικής αυτοκρατορίας.