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The Female Gaze: Women Directors in Latin American Cinema
This course delves into Latin American cinema through the lens of female directors and filmmakers, exploring how women have challenged power structures and representation in the film industry while addressing themes such as gender, identity, social…
Tags: Feminism / Feminismo
Cuban Roots/Bronx Stories
Cuban Roots/Bronx Stories highlights the experience of a black Cuban American family, revealing that the Cuban-American experience is more diverse, racially and ideologically, than we are often led to believe. The film explores the various…
Tags: Afro-Cuban / afro-cubano
Bongó Itá
La sociedad secreta Abakuá es una hermandad religiosa Afrocubana que permaneció vedada a los no iniciados hasta hace poco tiempo. Con imágenes rara vez expuestas antes, Bongó Itá logra capturar la esencia de un fenómeno que ha sido símbolo de…
Herencia
Havana is still alive. Its people are in the streets, squares, churches, parks, ballrooms, and schools. And it still conveys a legacy made of old laughter, African rhythms, and strong dyes. Music becomes the channel to transgress, to transcend, to…
Tags: Afro-Cuban / afro-cubano
Guanabacoa: Crónica de mi familia
A pioneer in the genre of autobiographical documentaries, this film made by the renowned Cuban director Sara Gómez explores her family roots to offer a family portrait through photos, popular music, and women’s tales. It is also a powerful document…
Tags: Afro-Cuban / afro-cubano
Vicenta B
Carlos Lechuga’s poignant third feature follows Vicenta Bravo, a gifted Afro-Cuban woman residing in Havana with the unique ability to see into the future and commune with spirits. Every day, people seek her out for guidance, but her world crumbles…
Tags: Afro-Cuban / afro-cubano
La vida es silbar
Bebé, una joven de 18 años relatará la vida de personas en La Habana: Mariana, una joven bailarina ninfómana; Julita, una mujer madura que oculta un secreto de su pasado y Elpidio, un joven mulato inadaptado que fue abandonado por su madre. (Premios…
Tags: Afro-Cuban / afro-cubano
Bakosó: AfroBeats of Cuba
What does "Está Rico" by Marc Anthony, Will Smith & Bad Bunny have in common with "Made For Now" by Janet Jackson x Daddy Yankee? They both high-jacked AfroBeats and did not give the genre's origin props. Bakosó is a film that does the opposite,…
Utopía
Siguiendo el ritmo de varios tempos musicales (introducción, andante, patético, etc.) se entrecruzan tres situaciones que se desarrollan sucesivamente aumentando su intensidad dramática. Así, un grupo de muchachos discute acaloradamente sobre la…
They Are We
They Are We is the story of a remarkable reunion, 170 or so years after a family was driven apart by the ravages of the transatlantic slave trade. In Central Cuba, proud members of the Ganga-Longoba, a small Afro-Cuban ethnic group, have kept their…
Tags: Afro-Cuban / afro-cubano
Africa mía
In the midst of the Cold War, ten young promising musicians from Mali are sent to Cuba to study music and strengthen cultural links between the two socialist countries. Combining Malian and Afro-Cuban influences, they develop a revolutionary new…
Tags: Afro-Cuban / afro-cubano
Kafe Negro
Kafe Negro tells the story of migrations around a small grain that became the second most important raw material on the global market. This film tells the story of the waves of migration of Haitian workers who, over time, profoundly transformed the…
The Invisible Color: Black Cubans in Miami
This latest documentary by the Dean of Afro-Cuban Cinema Sergio Giral investigates the black Cuban exile community in South Florida, since the first wave of political refugees in the 1959 revolutionary aftermath, to today. It tracks its presence…
Y tenemos sabor
Recorrido por la exótica gama de instrumentos de percusión utilizados en la música cubana y los orígenes de estos: claves, cucharas, maracas, bongós, güiros (hechos con calabazas), cencerros, quijadas de caballo. Gómez era música de formación y su…
Los hijos de Baraguá
"La producción de Rolando es un documental etnográfico e histórico sobre la comunidad de Baraguá, un enclave cañero de inmigrantes antillanos en el cual aún sobreviven los descendientes de estos trabajadores. De esta producción, emergen dos…
Ojos del arco iris
La ex Pantera Negra e integrante del Ejército de Liberación Negra, Assata Shakur, habla de su vida, su activismo en el Movimiento de Liberación Negra, su fuga de prisión en 1979 y su exilio en Cuba. A partir del 2005, el gobierno del estado de Nueva…
Sueños al pairo
Mike Porcel es el integrante perdido de la Nueva Trova cubana: su falta de espíritu revolucionario lo condenó al repudio de sus compañeros y lo transformó en paria durante una década, hasta que logró exiliarse. Sin rencor, pero sin olvido, la…
El acompañante
Daniel Guerrero (interpretado por Armando Miguel) tiene sida y está interno en el sanatorio de Los Cocos al sur de La Habana. El boxeador Horacio Romero (Yotuel Romero), sancionado por dopaje, es su acompañante, quien le vigilará noche y día para…
Tags: Afro-Cuban / afro-cubano
Roble de olor
In the late 1880's Cuba, a German merchant and farmer meets a freed black slave from Haiti who is herself a successful businesswoman. They fall in love despite social and racial taboos, with tragic results. (World Cat)
Rancheador
El Rancheador era un mercenario al servicio de los esclavistas para capturar a los negros esclavos en fuga y devolverlos a sus amos. Francisco Estévez no se detiene ante nada y reprime incluso a los campesinos blancos, pero su meta es Melchora,…
La pared de las palabras
Basado en un cuento de Zuzel Monné, desde su infancia, Luis padece una distonía y no puede comunicarse a través del lenguaje corporal ni de las palabras. Entre la institución médica y la familia, su vida interior es un muro infranqueable. Más que una…
Raíces de mi corazón
A present day AfroCuban woman [Mercedes] seeks her roots through her family history. Old photos, newspaper clippings jealously guarded by her grandmother, and her mother's stories reveal her great-grandparents' history. The historical truth raises…
Plácido
Plácido, narrates the story of the Afro-Cuban poet, Gabriel de la Concepción Valdés – “Plácido” – who was executed following the ferociously suppressed black rebellion of 1843-44 known as “Conspiración de La Escalara” (“conspiracy of the ladder”),…
Oggun
In making the documentary "Oggun: An Eternal Present," film director Gloria Rolando skirts the edges of enchantment, enters Yoruba philosophy, and, especially, pays homage to the singer Lazaro Ros, one of the most important personalities in recent…
Invisible color
This latest documentary by the Dean of Afro-Cuban Cinema Sergio Giral investigates the black Cuban exile community in South Florida, since the first wave of political refugees in the 1959 revolutionary aftermath, to today. It tracks its presence…
Havanyork
El discurso rebelde y contestatario de los músicos cubanos y norteamericanos nos invita a reflexionar sobre la contracultura y las realidades paralelas que nacen en todo sistema de gobierno. Los sueños, la familia, el barrio, la ciudad, la vida, la…
Tags: Afro-Cuban / afro-cubano
Diálogo con mi abuela
Un audiovisual donde se mezcla el documental y la ficción. Una foto de los años 20 es la imagen de la evocación espiritual. El Grupo Vocal Baobab interpreta los cantos tradicionales del espiritismo cubano. La voz original de la abuela Inocencia y el…
¿Dónde está Sara Gómez?
Sara Gomez was a 'searcher.' My first encounter with her was watching her only fiction film and it blew my mind. She was the first Afro-Cuban woman filmmaker to have shot a fiction film and, more than thirty years later, the film (as well as her…
Tags: Afro-Cuban / afro-cubano
El otro Francisco
Based on the novel Francisco by Anselmo Suárez y Romero, "The Other Francisco" is a socio-economic analysis of slavery and class struggle through the retelling of the original novel. The film contrasts the romantic conceptions of plantation life…
La última cena
The film showed a pious sugar plantation owner in Cuba who holds a large banquet and attempts to teach his slaves about religion and the necessity of suffering for eternal happiness. While the slaves believe that they are being shown kindness, they…