Movies: Cuba

Three African women arrive by different routes to Cuba in the nineteenth century, are evangelized and brought to America. For historical moment we left their legacy that still exists even in the younger generations....

There was a time in Argentina, not so long ago, when the army wasn't only one, official, but many and made up by civilians. In those times of courageous youths determined to fight to the death for that cause upheld around Peronism as wll as some left...

A ship of athletes training on the rough seas becomes a symbol of Castro’s Cuba, the games projected on the backdrop of political struggle. This is the story of a ship and of a sports delegation whom the enemy tried to stop from participating in the ...

100 years after the Russian revolution, the film invites us to think about agroecology as an option and a necessity in the construction of food sovereignty, taking the experience of Cuba as a world reference and inviting us to think that another type...

A documentary on the origins of Cuban Son....

Concert filmed in the Plaza de la Revolución on August 12, 2008, in the presence of a massive public, followers of the work of Buena Fe....

Photographer Joe Guerriero sets out to make sense of the U.S. trade embargo of Cuba. Through conversations with people from all walks of life, in and outside of Cuba, he tries to shed light on the political and human sides of this conflict....

A documentary on the legacy of ballet in Cuba that aired on PBS in Rochester, NY. Filmed on location in Havana, Cuba July – August, 2016. Featuring Laura Alonso, the history of the National Ballet of Cuba, and interviews with staff and dancers atten...

The notion of a Cuban civil society is often misrepresented in the U.S. mainstream media. According to most sources, Cuban civil society is limited to the opposition, which has little impact on the Cuban political scenario. Regardless, yearly, the U....

Alberto Díaz Korda delivered intense photography experiences throughout his 40-year career. KordaVision traces this brilliant career from his beginning in Havana, Cuba, until he became Fidel Castro's personal photographer from 1959 through 1968....

Tiffany Madera, a Miami-born Cuban, enrages her family by going to Cuba to teach belly dance to a group of women and starts a movement in dance....

The conflicts of female boxers in Cuba are addressed. The film tells the life stories of members of the women's boxing team, who has to face many obstacles until the official practice of that sport was finally autorized in Cuba, in December 2022....

Repainting Cuba takes a critical look at communist Cuba, where both the facades and the aging regime were given a coating of colorful paint in connection with the 50 year anniversary of the revolution. Two young Cubans under house arrest talk about b...

A documentary on the origins of Changüí....

Extremely rare Cuban documentary reveals rockers that find liberty by injecting themselves with the HIV virus, at a time when this was almost synonymous with a death sentence....

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After fleeing Cuba with his family when he was 7, Dallas artist Rolando Diaz returns to Havana to revisit his old neighborhood and learn more about the contemporary art scene in the city....

It's been a decade since the Federation of Cuban Women encouraged its members to form women's baseball teams. The call launched a movement that has seen women's teams spring up across the island—even as they face scorn and opposition from men who fee...

A personal journey about the search for identity and memory among Sephardic Jews with roots in Cuba....

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