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Ritual dances, incantations and fetishes in an associative sequence of mystical scenes reveal the roots of the Afro-Cuban minority in Bauta, Cuba, whose colonial past is guarded by a statue of a slave in chains. Tobacco smoke and magical ceremonies awaken the spirits of ancestors and invite them to fill the forgotten places of cultural memory of a young generation searching for their identity in a post-colonial era of political instability and religious syncretism.
In his graduation documentary for the Cuban film school EICTV, Alejandro Alonso Estrella portrays an elderly former miner still living on the premises of the mine where he spent his entire working life.
A tree is growing on the fifth floor of a dilapidated building in Cuba, its roots seeking the earth meters below.
In this short, we see a delicate and deeply moving portrait of Maria, a grieving woman. Small fragments of Maria’s life and surroundings help give the work a sense of poetry and mystery that lingers long after the end of the viewing experience.
In 1988, the Cuban State started to build a monumental tomb for the guerrilla fighter Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, despite the fact that his body was still missing in the Bolivian forest. Amid controversies and conspiracy theories, the Communist Party commissioned aficionado filmmakers Secades and Garcia to document the work, with the backing and supervision of the revolutionary armed forces. Nace una plaza is the documentary resulting from this experience.
De Armas' last production, La frontera (1967), is a cartoon with an implausible plasticity recreated from geometric figures. This anime evokes the geopolitical conflicts of “the border and ends up turning the disputed land into the space of both opponents. However, even though it is less introspective than other of his materials, La frontera is also a trigger for artistic experimentation.
Carlos, a daytime bike taxi driver in San Antonio de los Baños, immerses himself in his true passion at night: cinema. Under the pseudonym "Charlies David," he writes scripts and poems in his humble home, away from the world's gaze.
An experiment with celluloid images, based on discards from the short Blanca Putica. A Girl in Love (1973).
A documentary portrayal of life at Havana’s Central Park in the early 1960s. Occasional visitors, entertainers, passers-by, but most specially the elders who spend here a great part of their day, watching, remembering, musing...
Wilmar disappeared eleven years ago. Now his twin brother has to give certainty of his death to Maúca.
1:44, 2021, Cuba.
1:19, 2013, Cuba. Silent.
1:15, 2016, Cuba.
1:26, 2014, Cuba.
4:22, 2013, Cuba.
2:21, 2012, Cuba.
1:35, 2011, Cuba.
2:13, 2013, Cuba.
REM by Fabio C. Díaz Marcos, 1:15, 2016, Cuba.
Hailstone is a “condensation” of images from 2020 in Super 8 film. The work, composed of moments lived or seen through screens—such as video calls, Instagram Live footage, home videos, and TV broadcasts—solidifies a piece of the collective memory of the year of the pandemic.
A translation/treason. A film that tries to grasp the breath of poet José Kozer and return him to nothingness.
In a faraway region, a family transforms everyday actions into rituals. Their circular existence is focused on the father, around whom the limbo of the nation organizes its forms.
Nicolás Guillén Landrián was one of the most avant-garde Cuban filmmakers of the 1960s and 1970s. However, his work was not properly appreciated and he was relegated to ostracism. In 2022, some of his documentaries began to be restored. While documenting this process, his widow Gretel Alfonso and photographer Livio Delgado recall different passages from the life of this important documentary filmmaker.
The global entropy of the system is the entropy of the system considered plus the entropy of the surroundings. It can also be said that the entropy variation of the universe, for a given process, is equal to its variation in the system plus that of the surroundings. Entropy is the level of internal disorder that systems have. So, how to see Cuba through this concept.
Every night before sleep, Matías (4) and Salvador (2) wait impatiently the call of their distant grandfather that narrates fabulous deeds of the fisherman Sotavento. One night, in the early hours of the morning, as their parents were profoundly sleeping, they decide to go on their most longed adventure: the seafaring voyage which returns them back home. lost in the woods, frightened by the approaching of an imminent storm, the mythical sotavento will attend to help.
In a small Caribbean community, a woman gives birth to her second child and dies in childbirth. In their grief, the community draws strength from Yemaya.
A lagoon in Cuba suddenly dries up. All that remains of this lost landscape is an old painting with faded contours. This is the starting point for Violeta Mora’s quest: how does one remember a landscape that is no longer there? She then interviews those who do remember it, in an attempt to make the lagoon reappear.
Maria Gattorno, the director of the Cuban rock agency and legend amongst Havana’s rock scene, goes in depth about the importance of spaces for rock bands to play their own music versus the cover songs that are so popular in Havana at this time.
Through acknowledging that hair and beauty standards are affected by old traditions of racism and oppression, young girls and boys of color are encouraged to embrace their natural appearance and not over exert themselves trying to be something they are not.
In Cuba the flight of fireflies in the night is said to be like a meeting of miniature specters, weakened fires, or wandering souls. Isabel invokes them and triggers the dance.
Mexican feature film
Mercedes is a private music teacher who dreams of the return of her husband Ramiro, who has not stopped writing and sending her a check every month. Mercedes lives with her children: the eldest, Sebastián, is a cadet who, after graduating after the coup d'état on March 10, becomes a censor of the magazine Carteles; Alicia studies in the university and her aspiration is to look for in the United States the father who left them when they were very young; Sebastián is the one who tries to keep the family together and Javier, the youngest, follows in the footsteps of the mother in music and is a flutist, his greatest aspiration is to play in the América orchestra where Enrique Jorrín is taking the first steps that will lead him to the Chachachá as a danceable rhythm.
In a famous Havana cigar factory, Gricel, the reader, makes her way to her rostrum and microphone, from where she regales the workers with a specially curated mix of interesting articles, novels, poetry and diversions. Gricel is one of the last people to hold this storied position.
It has been four years since Raulito had to go into exile in Miami. He lives abroad and the family decides to send him a video letter for his birthday, in which everyone appears. The same old gossip is told, the same jokes are made, the usual sentimentality simulates an apparently harmonious and tolerant family until the sister decides to reveal a secret very well kept until then: the brother who lives abroad is gay. The stability of the family collapses and in the midst of the chaos the real conflicts appear.