"cuba"
Capital Cuba
Intercut footage of the camera panning along two sides of Havana Bay. Every few seconds, our act of viewing is disturbed for several seconds as the camera shifts from one side to the other. The rhythm of this panoramic view is determined by the editing. The 12-minute film invites the viewer on an experimentally filmed journey by boat from Old Havan..
Soy Cubana
When the Vocal Vidas, an all-female Cuban quartet, are invited to play their first show in the US, a simple concert becomes a journey across physical and ideological borders – affirming the connective power of music, even in the most uncertain times.
L'oro di Cuba
The Cuban Revolution turns fifty years old. Fifty years of history, myths and challenges of a country that has influenced politics and culture around the world, becoming for many the symbol of the revolt against capitalism.A country full of contradictions, but which has always exerted a great fascination for its strong political and cultural identi..
Luchando frijoles - Cuba de un día a otro
A documentary film
Cuba: Island of Music
This documentary examines contemporary Cuban music and its Afro-Latino roots
Manteca, mondongo y bacalao con pan: una mirada al jazz cubano
The history of Latin jazz in Cuba from the Orquesta Cubana de Música Moderna to Irakere.
Cuba: The People, Part I
The first American television crew to be allowed into Cuba since the 1959 revolution, DCTV toured the country for six weeks to produce this candid portrait of life in Castro's Cuba.
Cuba merci-gracias
Manu et Alexa-Jeanne, deux jeunes Québécoises, partent en voyage à Cuba. Elles se dorent la pilule, se jettent dans les vagues, mangent au restaurant, errent dans La Havane. Au fil des rencontres et discussions à bâtons rompus se dessinent les contours de leur amitié. Les échanges avec les habitants du cru proposent également une certaine c..
Al compás de Cuba
Documentary on Cuban music, rumba, regla de ocha and Abakuá.
The Two Faces of Ana: Model Employee/Cuban Spy
The "For Official Use Only" 2006 training video produced by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) about the case of Ana Belén Montes, a Cuban spy who rose to become DIA's top analyst for Cuban affairs. She was trained by Cuban intelligence in polygraph countermeasures and passed a DIA polygraph screening "test" while spying for Cuba. Includes inte..
Quatre roues à Cuba
A La Havane, les vieilles voitures américaines qui parsèment la ville, comme les Chevrolets ou les Pontiacs, permettent de faire un véritable voyage dans le temps.
Luchando! Cuba's Struggle to Survive
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 from Havana. He took the opportunity to make a film about life in Cuba today. He examines how people are surviving the hardships ..
Cuba in Africa
The dramatic untold story of 420,000 Cubans– soldiers and teachers, doctors and nurses– who gave everything to end colonial rule and apartheid in Southern Africa.
Hechos, No palabras: Los Derechos humanos em Cuba
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 in Cuba with the direct testimony of men and women of all ages, is a painting of the authentic reality that is lived in the Re..
Cuba, as Time Goes By
Havana 1977: One day I decided to go into exile. This film relates the return to my home town thirty years later. My clandestine camera goes at the bottom of the Cuban society, just as Fidel Castro has officially given the power to his brother Raul. He has held the reins during forty-eight years of absolute power. The children of the Cuban revoluti..
In Cuba They're Still Dancing
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 Havana. In her quest for the roots of the Rumba, Agnes meets the people of Cuba and finds many kindred spirits.
Hablando del punto cubano
Analyzes the typical features of the punto, a Cuban musical tradition from the days of Spanish colonialism.
Cuba: The Forgotten Revolution
A deconstruction of the known history of the Cuban revolution.
