Azúcar amarga
(Bitter Sugar) (Cuba-Dominican Republic, León Ichaso, 1996)
Story of two young Cubans who fall in love in spite of their opposite political views.
Balseros
(Spain, Carles Bosch/Josep María Doménech, 2002)
(Documentary). The story of Cuban refugees who risked their lives in homemade rafts to reach the United States in 1994, and how life is like for those who succeed.
Cuba: The 40 Years War
(USA, Meter Melaragno & Jim Burroughs, 2002)
(Documentary) Five Cuban-American veterans of the Bahía Cochinos assault go back to Havana forty years later for and international conference devoted to the invasion.
Diarios de motocicleta
(Motorcycle Diaries) (Argentina-USA-Cuba-Germany-Mexico-UK-Chile-Peru-France, Walter Salles, 2004)
Biographical fiction film about the memoir and journey of a young Ernesto Guevara through Argentina, Chile, Peru, Colombia and Venezuela.
Fidel
(USA, Estela Bravo, 2001)
Documentary about Fidel Castro, covering 40 years of Cuban Revolution. Rare Fidel
Castro footage.
Free to Fly: The U.S.-Cuba Link
(USA, Estela Bravo, 2004)
Documentary about the difficulties of traveling to or from Cuba and how the U.S.
Embargo severely limits the degree to which U.S. citizens can legally travel to Cuba.
Great Day in Havana
(USA, Laurie Ann Schang / Casey Stoll, 2001)
(Documentary.) Havana artists: painters, sculptors, filmmakers, poets, musicians and choreographers share their worlds and their art to proudly display their city and their identities.
Habana Blues
(Spain/Cuba/Francia, Benito Zambrano, 2005)
Two young Cuban musicians, Ruy and Tito, share the same dream: to become famous and finally leave Havana.
Historias de la revolución
(Cuba, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, 1960)
Overview of the insurrection against Batista's dictatorship through three stories:
El herido
,
Rebeldes
and
La batalla de Santa Clara
.
La vida es silvar
(Life is to Whistle) (Cuba, Fernando Pérez, 1998)
Stories of three unhappy characters struggle between love, hate, promises, the truth and prejudices.
Lista de espera
(Waiting List) (Spain-Mexico-Germany-France-Cuba, Juan Carlos Tabio, 2000)
Dozens of passengers wait for the bus to arrive in a bus terminal. Disorder and chaos reign when the bus breaks down and cannot leave. Forced to spend the night together and perhaps the next few days, everyone will try to come up with their own solutions, revealing the human being's ability to overcome with generosity and solidarity the toughest circumstances.
Más allá del mar
(Cuba-USA, Lisandro Perez-Rey, 2003)
Documentary on the Mariel Boatlift of 1980 when thousands of Cubans fled to the United States. Combining archival footage from within Cuba with recent interviews of those who came over.
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Miel para Oshun
(Honey for Oshun) (Cuba, Humberto Solas, 2001)
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When he was a child in the sixties, Roberto moved with his father from their home in Havana to create a new life in Miami. Thirty-two years later, after the death of his overbearing father, Roberto returns to Cuba in the hope of finding the mother his father claims abandoned them both.
Soy Cuba
(I am Cuba) (Soviet Union/Cuba, Mikhail Kalatozov, 1964)
Sergei Eisenstein's propaganda masterpiece that started a week after the Cuban
Missile crisis. The plot explores the world of Batista's Cuba.
Suite Habana
(Cuba, Pernando Perez, 2003)
The documentary was filmed with fictional cinema techniques depicting a day in a life of thirteen real people.
Young Rebels
(USA-Cuba, Anna Boden / Ryan Fleco, 2005)
(Documentary) The camera follows five Cuban hip-hop groups and two producers over the course of a Havana summer.
