Cuba I

Aplausos

Enrique Pineda Barnet (Cuba, 2016) 8’

An applause is not always a celebration.

Un aplauso no siempre es una celebración.

El camino de la vida

Isabel Santos (Cuba, 2016) 35’

Isabel Álvarez Morán’s life takes place trapped between occurrences that marked the history of a large part of humanity in the 20th century.  The Spanish Civil War, the siege of Leningrad, the post-war period in the USSR, and the Cuban Revolution.

 Atrapada entre hechos que marcaron la historia de buena parte de la humanidad en el siglo XX, transcurre la vida de Isabel Álvarez Morán. La guerra civil española, el cerco a la ciudad de Leningrado, la postguerra en la URSS y la revolución cubana.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnU3U23QQdI&feature=youtu.be

Agua

Pablo Lozano (Cuba/Dominican Republic, 2016) 5’02”

Mirta Sésé Franco (grandmother) (65) and Lisnay Veliz Brito (little girl) (12) star in an audiovisual essay that seeks to explore the relationship of “self” with the “inner child”. Through a simple mantra, director Pablo Lozano presents an elderly woman and a little girl sharing the same space and time; only one of the two may in the end come out and play.

https://youtu.be/6bZDSQoQuSs

Cuba: Sun, Sex and Socialism

Diana Taylor (Cuba,2014) 16’

www.vimeo.com/175691060

Cuba the largest island in the Caribbean and controlled by the Castro Brothers for over 50 years is changing fast. With over 3 million tourists pouring into the country each year Cuba struggles to adapt to the 21st century. The film explores the impact of tourism on the country ,the political issues and the negotiations which are currently in progress to end the embargo with America which could change the country overnight.

Persona

Eliécer Jiménez Almeida (Cuba, 2012-2014)  27’

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Q & A

with Eliécer Jiménez Almeida