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- DirectorGloria RolandoStarsSimone BalmasedaSonia BoggianoElvira CerveraThrough dreams and reality, a Cuban woman learns of the ties her great-grandparents had with the Independents of Color, a political party formed in 1908.
- DirectorIsmael Perdomo
- DirectorMikhail KalatozovStarsSergio CorrieriSalvador WoodJosé GallardoFour vignettes about the lives of the Cuban people set during the pre-revolutionary era.
- DirectorNéstor AlmendrosOrlando Jiménez LealStarsLorenzo MonrealJorge LagoJulio MedinaAn examination of Cuba's "moral purges" that began in 1964 with UMAP camps for those suspected of or found guilty of "improper conduct." Key moments brought outside attention to these policies: the defection of ballet dancers in Paris in 1966, a 48-hour period in 1980 when more than 11,000 Cubans sought asylum in Havana's Peruvian embassy, and the brief detention of writer Virgilio Piñera. Interviews with exiles take up most of the film as they tell their stories and ponder the Castro government's arrest and detention of persons with effeminate mannerisms: what the state calls "extravagant behavior." In essence, the film exposes the Cuban state's homophobic, petit bourgeois nature.
- DirectorHumberto SolásStarsDaisy GranadosImanol AriasMiguel BenavidesCecilia, a Cuban girl of mixed race in violent 19th-century Cuba, is raised by her mother and grandmother as a courtesan. Soon, pale-skinned Cecilia catches the eye of the estate owner's son, Leonardo. Cecilia bows to Leonardo's demands provided he agrees to shelter a wounded member of the resistance movement at his home. Leonardo's wealthy father, Cándido de Gamboa, arranges the engagement of his son to a white girl of their own class. Cecilia tries to stop the wedding with tragic results.
- DirectorLeon IchasoOrlando Jiménez LealStarsRaimundo Hidalgo-GatoZully MonteroReynaldo MedinaSlice-of-life look at Roberto and Aurelia, Cuban exiles living in New York City with their 17-year-old daughter Aurelita. It's February, 1978; the winter is harsh, and for 10 years Roberto's been the super of an apartment building: firing up the boiler, repairing windows, moving bags of garbage. He's homesick for Cuba, stuck in repetitive conversations about the Bay of Pigs, Castro, and life back home. He's too depressed to make love to Aurelia, and when his daughter thinks she's pregnant and he receives sad news from Cuba, he makes up his mind to quit the city for Miami. The decision gives him new life, he remembers Aurelia's birthday, and they have a party to celebrate.
- DirectorBenito ZambranoStarsAlberto YoelRoberto San MartínYailene SierraTwo Cuban friends play in a blues band in La Habana. When a Spanish music producer offers them a contract to record an album and build a career in Europe, they must decide whether to stay in their birthplace with their loved ones or to grab the chance of leaving Cuba.
- DirectorHelena CanhotoThere is a Cuba that moves away from salsa, rum and sand, an island with a soul that crosses borders in the greatness of its story. However, with the end of the Soviet Union and the fall of the Socialist Alliance in 1991, Cuba began abruptly the worst experience of its story. This documentary portrays through the Cubans voice how were the years of greatest darkness, hunger and hopelessness of the country and how in 2013, the year 55 of the Socialist Revolution, the population manages to adapt to new realities.