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A beautiful film by epic music scene film maker Tony Gatlif with Cuban legends Tata Guines and Pancho Quinto, while young Michael Herrera Duarte (Lucumi) stars as the centerpiece of the story. Lucumi is ten and lives in
Adventure film based on the life of the legendary bandit Manuel García, the king of the Cuban fields, who in the last decades of the 19th century had the sympathy of the people because it was said that he stole goods fro
Cut off from globalization, Cuba has had to rethink its production methods to circumvent the international embargo. In search of inspiration for a sustainable future, Corentin de Chatelperron sets out to discover these f
Life on the sea is beautiful and deadly, and we see both sides of that story through the eyes of a man who's sailed his entire life. Featuring Finbar Gittelman and his beloved Schooner Wolf, this documentary explores Fin
Abraham and Eugenia: Stories From Jewish Cuba tells the story of two people living in Cuba who have held onto their faith in the years since the 1959 revolution.
Documentary on Cuban prima ballerina assoluta Alicia Alonso and her company the Ballet Nacional de Cuba.
Until the age of 28 Elina Geida had no idea who her father was. As a young girl growing up in Latvia, she'd always wondered but the information wasn't there. Then, overnight that changed when she discovered he lived in C
There are two things very close to Glaswegian Agnes McLean’s heart – Latin American dancing and Socialism. We go with her from her local sequence dance class in the Pollock center, Glasgow, to the Tropicana nightclub in
Documentary about economic development in Cuba, particularly the effort to boost output of sugar cane. This film is made from a compilation of newsreel footage from the Cuban film institute and from Santiago Alvarez's fi
A look at the history of hip-hop culture in Cuba through the eyes of Rodolfo Rensoli, founder of the Cuban Hip Hop Festival.
When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990, Cuba's economy went into a tailspin. With imports of oil cut by more than half – and food by 80 percent – people were desperate. This film tells of the hardships and struggles as
A movie about the Cuban political process and its peculiarities. It is a material about the exercise of a different Democracy from the one that the great centers of power try to impose. “Acts, not words”, shot entirely
This film was shot in Cuba in 1994. The opportunity came when Russel Porter, an Australian documentary filmmaker, was invited to teach at the international film and television school (EICTV) located some forty kilometers
"The first U.S. Troops to land, June 22, 1898. Transports in the distance. Soldiers clamber up from boats onto the long railroad pier." - from the Edison Catalog
