Instituto Cubano de Arte e Industria Cinematográfica
Series
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2008?]
Language
Español
Description
This tense, action-packed political thriller chronicles the romance between two young revolutionaries in 1950s Havana as they fight for their lives against Batista's secret service. Based on real events from the early days of the revolution.
3) I am Cuba
Publisher
Milestone Film & Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Español
Description
Four vignettes in Batista's Cuba dramatize the need for revolution; long mobile shots tell almost wordless stories.
4) Afinidades
Publisher
Venevision International
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Español
Description
Ante el vac̕o y la falta de explicación racional de muchos de los problemas del mundo contempor̀neo, a veces parece que la énica salida de refugiarse en los instintos-- y los instintos nos conducen al sexo. Al menos esta es la salida que encuentran los protagonistas de esta historia como v̕a para conjurar la impotencia y reafirmar sus personalidades laceradas por la soledad. Pero el resultado es ef̕mero y el intento tiene consecuencias imprevisibles.
Two...
5) Barrio Cuba
Publisher
Laguna Productions
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Español
Description
The leading characters live life to its fullest, propelling themselves over and over against an uncertain fate, searching for a way out. The harsh reality of the barrio contests them, but they never lose the hope of a better future.
6) Nada+
Series
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2003?]
Language
Español
Description
A lighthearted story of a Cuban postal worker and how she copes with her dreary life.
Publisher
TLA Releasing
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Español
Description
In 1950's Havana, before the Revolution, Samuel is brought to Havana by his mother Alicia, a newly divorced woman, to live with her long-ignored mother Violeta. At first, Violeta teases and commands Samuel. She tries to intimidate him a little and threatens him with being sent away to school. But, rather suddenly he becomes Violeta's protégé. She's a portrait photographer and Samuel becomes her assistant. Gradually a nice relationship between Violeta...
Series
Language
Español
Formats
Description
In 1996, Ry Cooder went to Cuba, rediscovering talents of Cuba's foremost folk musicians, and then making a recording selling millions and earning a Grammy Award. Cooder now returns to Cuba with filmmaker Wim Wenders to reveal the stories, personalities, and music of the performers who collaborated on that recording. Includes live performances in Amsterdam and at Carnegie Hall.
Publisher
Venevision International
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Español
Description
In the midst of a mid-life crisis, Alejandro's life gets turned upside down when a chance meeting with a beautiful girl gets him entangled with her boyfriend, who is a professional killer for the mob.
Cuando atraviesa por el peor momento de su vida Alejandro conoce a una atractiva pero peligrosa chica. Vanesso no sólo vende drogas, sino que su novio es un sicario ligado a la mafia.
Publisher
Mr. Bongo Films
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
Español
Description
A study of Cuban society before and after the revolution as seen through the eyes of a Europeanized intellectual, a landlord and self-styled writer, who is too idealistic to leave for Miami but too decadent to fit into the new society.
12) I am Cuba
Series
Criterion collection volume 1214
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Español
Description
Both a landmark of radical political cinema and one of the most visually beautiful films ever made, this legendary hymn to revolution shimmers across the screen like a fever dream of rebellion. The result of an extraordinarily ambitious collaboration between the Soviet and Cuban film industries, director Mikhail Kalatozov's I Am Cuba unfolds in four explosive vignettes that capture Cuban life on the brink of transformation, as crushing economic exploitation...
Publisher
ArtMattan Productions
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Español
Description
Two exciting, colorful films spotlight the African roots of Cuba's culture by focusing on two legendary artists in this unique set.
The last rumba of Papa Montero: "A film on the rhythmic dance genre known as rumba. ... dances around the life of Papa Montero, one of the famous rumberos of Cuba, assassinated during carnival ... The use of Afro-Cuban mythology is the force behind the characters as orishas guide [their] fate"--About the film (on the...