Titón: de la Habana a Guantanamera

Titón, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea (1928-1996), remarkable filmmaker and one of film history’s paramount names. From his birth at Havana and up to Guantamera, his last movie, this documentary broadly traces Titón’s work, his outlook and vital engagement as reflected in his own words and in the opinions of family members and professionals. An essential and [...]

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Guantanamera

Today’s Cuba. An atypical funeral courtege and a lorry are covering the same route, although with very different objectives. The courtege, consisting of a civil servant, his wife and an old man, is to comply with the thrifty state plan for corps transfers. The lorry, driven by Mariano (Jorge Perrugorría) is covering its usual route. [...]

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Fresa y Chocolate

David (Vladimir Cruz) is an  ardent Communist and member of the Communist Party who studies Sociology at the University of La Habana. Diego (Jorge Perrugoria)  is an homosexual artist drawning in the regime’s homophobia. Despite their differences, a deep friendship will emerge between them. check availability David (Vladimir Cruz) es un estudiante cubano, comunista convencido, con carnet del partido, que estudia [...]

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Up to a certain point

A clever, self-reflexive satire about the battle of the sexes in contemporary Cuba, Up to a certain point tells the story of Oscan, an educated, liberal filmmaker who, in doing research for a film about the social problem of machismo in Cuban society, finds himself falling in love with the sexy, liberated Lina, a pioneering [...]

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Muerte de un burócrata

With Death of a Bureaucrat, Alea pays homage to the history of film comedy from the anarchic tradition of Buñuel and Vigo, to the satire of Billy Wilder and the masters of American silent comedy Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton. The story of a young man’s attempt to fight the system is an entertaining, hilarious [...]

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La última cena

In the 18th century the Cuban aristocracy perceived itself as a patrician, famous for its ´benevolent slavery´, a system apparently less cruel than that of nearby countries. A count takes the system a little too seriously when he substitutes Christ during the Easter week in order to humiliate himself in front of his servants. It ends up bringing [...]

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