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PlaceCuba
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Molasses
2012
In the Cuban village of Melaza, Aldo and Monica live in a small house along with Monica’s eight-year-old daughter Mara and her wheelchair-bound grandmother. Aldo teaches swimming in an empty pool. Monica is the only employee still working in the Melaza sugar mill, which has been shut down. What...
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The Last Match
2013
Two Cuban boys on the edge of marginality fight to lead a life together, but things are not easy for either one of them. One has to work as a loan shark for his father-in-law. The other one prostitutes himself in the streets to help his family financially.
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Cincuentaicinco Hermanos
1978
A documentary that records the first visit to Cuba of the Antonio Maceo Brigade, formed by young people who, in the first years of the revolution, were taken out of the country by their families. They return and re-encounter a new homeland, being received by construction workers, young technicians,...
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79 Springs
1969
Through the life of Ho Chi Minh, poet, guerrilla fighter, and statesman, the film reflects the long-standing struggle of the Vietnamese people against those who tried to subjugate them. Winner of the Grand Prize at the Leipzig Festival of Documentaries and Short Films.
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The Battle of Chile
1979
A three-part documentary, made from 1973 to 1979, which follows the events that preceded the fall of president Salvador Allende, in Chile. A work of political analysis, the film caused various problems for its five filmmakers: they were arrested by the Chilean police, and one of them - the camera...
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The Battle of Chile: Part I
1975
The year is 1973, a period of parliamentary elections in Chile. In the streets, interviews with the population reveal a divided country: on one side, the supporters of president Salvador Allende, who had already begun his socialist reform program; on the other, the sympathizers of the opposition,...
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The Battle of Chile: Part II
1976
The confrontation between Allende`s supporters and his opponents reaches its most critical point. The population suffers from energy and food rationing, a result of the boycotts against the government. A transport strike paralyzes the country and opens the way for violence. The influence of the...
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The Battle of Chile: Part III
1979
On the sidelines of the confrontation between the Allende government and the opposition, the population organizes itself to find ways of survival, especially the popular classes, who supported the Allende administration. To create alternatives to the economic boycott and overcome the crisis, a...
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A Photograph Goes Around the World
1981
A simple testimony from the photographer who immortalized the most striking expression of the revolutionary Che Guevara in a photo that travels the world as a symbol, ultimately appearing on T-shirts and banners. It is an extensive documentation of the various circumstances in which this photo...
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The Isle of Death
2006
Cuba, 1958. Rodolfo is 20 years old and dreams of becoming a Hollywood filmmaker. His father, a member of the revolutionary movement, is fleeing from the police, a situation that forces the family to abandon Havana and take refuge in San Juan de las Rocas, a boring village, where Rodolfo’s dreams...
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The Compass Rose
1983
A production that discusses the mysticism of Latin American culture and the predominance of the number four in the history of its people. The Mayans divided History into four periods; the Aztecs had a world with four suns, and the Incas controlled four regions. This fable is told through...
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The Last Supper
1976
Cuban Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, one of the directors of the award-winning "Strawberry and Chocolate", directs this film, which received the jury prize at the 13th Chicago Film Festival. The last years of the 18th century saw bourgeois revolutions and marked the beginning of the independence struggles...
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A Veces Miro Mi Vida
1982
Documentário sobre a vida do cantor e ator negro americano Harry Belafonte (que voltou a fazer cinema em 1995, com o filme "A Cor da Fúria"/White Men`s Burden). A base do roteiro é uma entrevista feita com Belafonte em 1980, em Cuba, durante um concerto. Além de narrar sua vida, mostra também...
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Alicia Bustamante
2009
Hanna Schygulla travels from Paris to Cuba to make a film about her girlfriend and artistic partner, Cuban actress and director Alicia Bustamante. Alicia lightens the screen, sings, dances, recites poems and texts by Bertolt Brecht with passion, wisdom and humor, besides remembering her times in...
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Bilbao
1978
The bold Spanish director Bigas Luna shows the intense relationship of a young man with a woman older than him. Maria is a declining actress who tries to preserve the glamour of her glory days. Thus, she maintains an affair with Leo, younger than her, and with the young man`s uncle, who guarantees...
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Black
2000
The action takes place in a country in the Caribbean, most probably in Cuba, where the movie was filmed and where the director spent a goodly part of his life. So that the film might be made there, however, it was essential that this not be mentioned in the film. This is no problem, for it deals...
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Letters From the Park
1988
"Cartas del Parque" faz parte da série "Amores Impossíveis", sempre com roteiros de Gabriel Garcia Marquez e direção de cineastas latino-amercianos. Numa cidadezinha de Matanzas, vizinha da capital Havana, em 1913, um triângulo amoroso entre Pedro, Maria e Juan provoca cartas entre os amantes...
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Cecília
1982
Em Havana, na primeira metade do século 19, uma bela mestiça sonha chegar ao mundo dos aristocratas brancos. Para isso, usa o niilista e contraditório Leonardo, um rapaz que poderá conduzi-la à alta sociedade. A paixão entre eles revela uma sociedade escravocata condenada a desaparecer.
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Che, A New Man
2010
Ernesto Che Guevara, murdered at the age of 39, has become a true icon of our era. His image, his works and his philosophy carry enormous weight nowadays. This documentary disentangles some key factors: his intimacy, his never ending education, his coherence, studies and thought processes...
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Dreaming in Blue
2008
Baseball is Cuba’s national pastime. For the past 45 years, Havana has been home to the Industriales, also known as “The Blues”. Like the U.S.’s Yankees and Spain’s Real Madrid, this is the island’s definitive team: you either hate them or love them. This film tells the team’s history...
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Lista de Espera
2000
A comedy (or tragedy, depending on the point of view) is about to be, at a bus station in a small town in Cuba. Dozens of passengers are anxiously waiting for the bus to arrive, in the hope there will be seats for them. Hope turns to desolation when the bus does arrive, but breaks down soon after....
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Los Que Se Fueron
1981
Documentário sobre os cubanos que deixaram o país logo depois da revolução. Também revela o exôdo de milhares de crianças que ficaram sem seus pais. O filme narra a luta daqueles que tentaram voltar a Cuba e de outros que preferiram seguir em frente com ações terroristas contra o governo.
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Maluala
1979
Maluala é o principal "palenque", espécie de quilombo, da região oriental de Cuba. Nesse cenário, Gallo e Coba, chefe do "palenque", pede ao governo colonial liberdade e terra para seus homens. O governador Escudero aceita a proposta desde que todos os homens sejam entregues a ele. Gallo e Coba...
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Me Alquilo Para Soñar
1992
Soap opera in six chapters adapted from the original screenplay by Gabriel García Marquez, directed by Ruy Guerra and shot in Cuba in 1991. In the words of Hanna Schygulla: “this was the role that opened the doors for an entire continent: Latin America. Until then, I had played several roles,...