[3] His cinematic style borrows from Luchino Visconti's mise en scene and is permeated by sometimes heavy melodrama.
He started making shorts at a very young age and directed his first medium length film Manuela in 1967.
The success of this film led him to direct Lucía, told in three stories from three different moments of Cuban history, each seen through the eyes of a different woman named Lucia.
[8] In 2003, he founded Gibara's Poor Cinema Festival, "open to filmmakers with limited funds".
[3] Solás directed twenty-four films, from La Huida in 1959 to Barrio Cuba and Adela in 2005,[3] wrote twelve and produced one.