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Documentary in four parts on Latin American cinema. Second episode, evoking the border between fiction and documentary. With his film Tire dié (1960), the Argentinian Fernando Birri proposed this manifesto: to create a r
Documentary film interviews leading Latinos on race, identity, and achievement.
The characters include a dirty-dealing 80-year-old mayor with a troubling Fascist past and a bloodthirsty middle-aged writer - also an ex-Fascist, who has now turned Marxist-Leninist and is ready to settle his accounts w
The opening ceremony of the First National Sports Games in Cuba. A runner carrying the Olympic torch enters the stadium while hundreds of flag bearers perform an impressive dance. Delegations from several regions march i
Overview of the various commemorative events marking the anniversary of July 26, featuring the visit to Cuba by Yuri Gagarin, the world's first cosmonaut.
From early Hollywood stereotypes and erasure to today’s authentic voices, this documentary traces a century-long struggle for Latino representation, showing how artists reclaimed their image and reshaped cinema, and the
A record of the fight for legal abortion based on the Brazilian, Argentine and Colombian experiences.
Documentary about the presence of Latin American culture and actors in American movies.
Jill-Michele Melean has finally filmed her one-hour standup special. From Miami to L.A. She's half Bolivian, half Irish but raised in Miami so Cuban by association. Not white enough to play the Stepford wife or Latin eno
The fighting between the Sandinista government in Nicaragua and the Contra rebels backed by U.S. money and expertise is the focus of this pro-Sandinista film by Haskell Wexler. On a secret mission to help the U.S. Specia
Built against all the aesthetic canons of its time and inaugurated in 1923, the emblematic Buenos Aires building "Palacio Barolo" was commissioned by the Italian businessman Luis Barolo to a compatriot, the architect Mar
A report on the visit to Cuba by Valentina Tereškova, the first woman to fly in space and the first Soviet cosmonaut. As the (unidentified) narrator points out, she is a “textile worker, a communist, and a Soviet woman w
A spooky seance is held to discover the whereabouts, and the killer, of a sculptor's wife.
Filmed in super 8mm, it is Germán Bobe's first film. It is a sarcastic look at the world of a teenager and her daily life.
Documentary about the Afro-Peruvian music group Los Negros de Miércoles"
Joan Daley, a New York booking/press agent, attempts to recruit two local stand-ins, Jinx Terry and Lois Morgan, when the Cuban sister-act, Marianela and Rosita she as booked into the nightclub for which she works fails