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- DirectorAlejandro Ramírez Anderson
- DirectorHumberto SolásStarsJorge PerugorríaIsabel SantosMario LimontaOver several years, we follow three households and their emotions in a barrio of Havana. Magalis is a nurse, rarely happy. An older man, Ignacio, professes his love for her; her father and her brother quarrel over her brother's sexual orientation; she thinks about leaving Cuba. Santo's wife Maria is expecting their first child. Tragedy strikes and Santo leaves, drowning sorrows in alcohol and crime while his son grows up in the care of an aunt wondering where dad is. Vivian and Chino are in love, passionate, but childless. The pressures of a society that demands grandchildren strain their relationship. She tries prayer. Fathers embrace their children.
- DirectorEsteban Insausti
- DirectorJuan Carlos Cremata MalbertiIraida Malberti CabreraStarsMalú Tarrau BrocheJorge MiloLuisa María Jiménez RodríquezIn a tale akin to Romeo and Juliet, the friendship between two children is threatened by their parents' differences. Malu is from an upper-class family and her single mother does not want her to play with Jorgito, as she thinks his background coarse and commonplace. Jorgito's mother is a poor socialist that is proud of her family's social standing. She places similar restriction on her son. What neither woman recognizes is the immense strength of the bond between Malu and Jorgito. When the children learn that Malu's mother is planning to leave Cuba, they decide to travel to the other side of the island to find Malu's father and persuade him against signing the forms that would allow it.
- DirectorPavel GiroudStarsMercedes SampietroIván CarreiraSusana TejeraA drama about grandmother-grandson relationships.
- DirectorJorge Luis SánchezStarsRakel AdrianaUlyk AnelloRenny ArozarenaBased on the life of Benny Moré, the film concentrates on a period in the early 1950s when Moré leaves the orchestra of Duany and starts his own 'Banda Gigante'. In flashback we learn of his success in Mexico. Moré is caught in the events connected to Batista's coup in Cuba. Also, he tours Venezuela, where he suffers the machinations of a vengeful businessman. After collapsing and being hospitalised, Moré swears off alcohol. Some years later, he encounters his old band-mate Monchy, fallen on hard times.
- DirectorAlejandro BruguésStarsCaleb CasasHeidi GarcíaOsvaldo DoimeadiósYoung Doctor Ana lives alone because she couldn't bear to leave Cuba when her family sailed away on a raft to the US. Ernesto lives in his car with his belongings in a small case, traveling from embassy to embassy trying to fulfill his dream of leaving Cuba. These Star-crossed lovers long to be together, they are pulled apart by different dreams rooted in different countries. In his directorial debut, Alejandro Brugués offers his personal view on the insistently revisited theme in Cuban art and literature - emigration and the laceration that it implies.
- DirectorSusana Barriga
- DirectorIan PadrónStarsRey Vicente AngladaOrlando HernándezGermán MesaDocumentary about the famous Havana baseball team Industrials.
- DirectorEnrique Díaz Quesada
- DirectorRamón PeónStarsMiguel SantosDiana MardeMatilde MaunYoung man who had lost his father falls in love with the local Chieftain's daughter, who opposes the romance. Only a miracle can save the couple's love affair and Our Lady of Charity intervenes in the name of justice.
- DirectorRamón PeónStarsLuana AlcañizAlicia RicoJuan TorenaA country girl working in the tobacco fields, is seduced by a city man and elopes with him to Havana. In the big city, she discovers that the man is a womanizer that has been playing with her feelings. Unable to go back to her family out of shame, she finds work singing in a night club. However, the man who dishonored her, has more evil intentions on the way.
- DirectorManolo AlonsoStarsJuan José Martínez CasadoAlejandro LugoRaquel RevueltaOn New Year's Eve, a banker and his wife invite several friends to have dinner in their apartment. Suddenly, an astrologer makes an appearance and predicts seven of the present people will die in the next weeks.
- DirectorManolo AlonsoManuel AlonsoStarsPaco AlfonsoXonia BenguríaAgustín CamposA young woman from the country has a son from a young man of a rich family. The rich grandfather of the man, owner of the farm, takes the child away to educate him. A few years later the young woman marries a poor farmer. She rejects the child she has with him and only understands she loves him when the rival brothers fight against each other in a duel.
- DirectorJulio García Espinosa
- DirectorSantiago Álvarez
- DirectorJulio García EspinosaStarsBlas MoraWember BrosJosé Yedra
- DirectorManuel Octavio Gómez
- DirectorJosé MassipStarsLuis Carbonell
- DirectorNicolás Guillén Landrián
- DirectorSantiago ÁlvarezStarsFidel Castro
- DirectorEduardo ManetStarsRené de la CruzOfelia GonzálezMiñuca NaredoA doctor committed against the revolution decides to escape in a boat. A criminal friend introduced him to a modest revolutionary family to cover it up. During the events aspects of a society in transition are reflected.
- DirectorRogelio ParisA rare panorama of Cuban music and dance from the 1960s. Featuring legendary Cuban musicians as well as vibrant spontaneous performances, We Are the Music captures the mood and vitality of Havana during its golden period.
- DirectorNicolás Guillén Landrián
- DirectorFausto CanelStarsSergio CorrieriRaúl EgurenYolanda Farr
- DirectorMiriam TalaveraOscar Valdés
- DirectorSantiago ÁlvarezStarsLena HorneA documentary short about racism in the United States.
- DirectorHumberto SolásStarsAdela LegráAdolfo LlauradóOlga GonzálezDuring the last days of the struggle against dictator Fulgencio Batista, a young peasant woman joins the guerrilla in the Sierra Maestra.
- DirectorTomás Gutiérrez AleaStarsSalvador WoodSilvia PlanasManuel EstanilloA young man attempts to fight the system in an entertaining account of bureaucracy amok and the tyranny of red tape.
- DirectorSantiago ÁlvarezA short film which documents the lives of the people of Hanoi which took place on March 13.
- DirectorJulio García EspinosaStarsJulito MartinezErdwin FernándezAdelaida RaymatThe metamorphoses of Juan Quin Quin, in turns bullfighter, guerrilla fighter and sacristan.
- DirectorEnrique Pineda Barnet
- DirectorOctavio CortázarA traveling film projectionist brings the film Modern Times (1936) to a secluded village that has never seen a motion picture before.
- DirectorHumberto SolásStarsRaquel RevueltaEslinda NúñezAdela LegráTraces episodes in the lives of three Cuban women, each named Lucía, from three different historical periods: the Cuban war of independence (with Spain), the 1930s, and the 1960s.
- DirectorNicolás Guillén Landrián'Coffea arábiga' was sponsored as a propaganda documentary to show how to sow coffee around Havana. In fact, Guillén Landrián made a film critical of Castro, exhibited but banned as soon as the coffee plan collapsed.
- DirectorOscar ValdésStarsMarta CartallaHumberto MolinaEdwin Moore
- DirectorEnrique Díaz Quesada
- DirectorTomás Gutiérrez AleaStarsSergio CorrieriDaisy GranadosEslinda NúñezA Cuban man cycles through his opinions and memories as the threat of foreign invasion intensifies and the rest of his family moves to Miami.
- DirectorRamón PeónStarsMiguel SantosDiana MardeMatilde MaunYoung man who had lost his father falls in love with the local Chieftain's daughter, who opposes the romance. Only a miracle can save the couple's love affair and Our Lady of Charity intervenes in the name of justice.
- DirectorSantiago ÁlvarezStarsLyndon B. JohnsonA montage of 1960s America, all focused on the presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson.
- DirectorRamón PeónStarsLuana AlcañizAlicia RicoJuan TorenaA country girl working in the tobacco fields, is seduced by a city man and elopes with him to Havana. In the big city, she discovers that the man is a womanizer that has been playing with her feelings. Unable to go back to her family out of shame, she finds work singing in a night club. However, the man who dishonored her, has more evil intentions on the way.
- DirectorManuel Octavio GómezStarsAdolfo LlauradóJosé RodríguezIdalia AnreusBoth Spanish soldiers and Cuban peasants recall the bloody attack by machete-slicing Cubans in the late 19th century. The officers discuss the attack and the implications their defeat will have as they dread the review from Madrid. Soon Cuba would break away from Spain, largely with the help of William Randolph Hearst who helped to facilitate the Spanish-American War. The film also goes over the history, use and care of the machete, which came out of the sugar cane fields to become a deadly weapon of hand-to-hand combat.
- DirectorManolo AlonsoStarsJuan José Martínez CasadoAlejandro LugoRaquel RevueltaOn New Year's Eve, a banker and his wife invite several friends to have dinner in their apartment. Suddenly, an astrologer makes an appearance and predicts seven of the present people will die in the next weeks.
- DirectorSantiago ÁlvarezAn agit-prop documentary marking the death of Vietnamese nationalist leader Ho Chí Minh, using found footage to link his work to worldwide political movements including the Cuban revolution and resistance within the USA to the Vietnam war.
- DirectorManolo AlonsoManuel AlonsoStarsPaco AlfonsoXonia BenguríaAgustín CamposA young woman from the country has a son from a young man of a rich family. The rich grandfather of the man, owner of the farm, takes the child away to educate him. A few years later the young woman marries a poor farmer. She rejects the child she has with him and only understands she loves him when the rival brothers fight against each other in a duel.
- DirectorManuel Octavio GómezStarsIdalia AnreusRaúl PomaresAdolfo LlauradóBased on actual events that occurred in 1936 in Pinar Del Río, a province in Cuba; it tells the story of Antoñica Izquierdo, a peasant who attributed healing powers through water.
- DirectorOscar Valdés
- DirectorTomás Gutiérrez AleaStarsJosé Antonio RodríguezRaúl PomaresSilvano ReyIn 1672 Cuban revolutionaries launch an uprising against the Spanish who are occupying the country.
- DirectorJulio García Espinosa
- DirectorPastor Vega
- DirectorSantiago Álvarez
- DirectorManuel Herrera
- DirectorJulio García EspinosaStarsBlas MoraWember BrosJosé Yedra
- DirectorManuel Octavio Gómez
- DirectorManuel Octavio GómezStarsIdalia AnreusMario BalmasedaMiguel BenavidesA reconstruction, in the style of Socialist Realism, of an actual case from 1969 in which 4 men were accused of sabotaging economic planning and bringing about 8 deaths and much material loss, by starting a forest fire.
- DirectorJosé MassipStarsLuis Carbonell
- DirectorSara GómezStarsMario BalmasedaYolanda CuéllarMario LimontaIn Miraflores, Cuba, the growing romance between Mario, a factory worker, and Yolanda, a schoolteacher, throws into relief the differences in their perspectives and values in Revolutionary Cuba.
- DirectorNicolás Guillén Landrián
- DirectorSergio GiralStarsMiguel BenavidesAlina SánchezRamón VelozBased 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 found in Suárez Romero's novel with a realistic expose of the actual historical conditions of slavery throughout the Americas. It offers a critical analysis of the novel, showing how the author's social background led to his use of particular dramatic structures to convey his liberal, humanitarian viewpoint.
- DirectorSantiago ÁlvarezStarsFidel Castro
- DirectorTomás Gutiérrez AleaStarsNelson VillagraSilvano ReyLuis Alberto GarcíaA pious plantation owner attempts to teach Christianity to 12 of his slaves by inviting them to participate in a reenactment of the Last Supper.
- DirectorEduardo ManetStarsRené de la CruzOfelia GonzálezMiñuca NaredoA doctor committed against the revolution decides to escape in a boat. A criminal friend introduced him to a modest revolutionary family to cover it up. During the events aspects of a society in transition are reflected.
- DirectorOctavio CortázarStarsPatricio WoodSalvador WoodRené de la CruzIn the early years of the Cuban revolution, a young Havana student volunteers to go to a poor rural region to teach peasants how to read and write; he's sent to the Ciénega de Zapata zone, where squads of anti-Castro guerrilla operate; he happens to teach the wife of a squad leader; trouble and confrontation ensues when government militia makes the little town its operations base.
- DirectorRogelio ParisA rare panorama of Cuban music and dance from the 1960s. Featuring legendary Cuban musicians as well as vibrant spontaneous performances, We Are the Music captures the mood and vitality of Havana during its golden period.
- DirectorTomás Gutiérrez AleaStarsEnrique SantistebanJuanita CaldevillaGermán PinelliAn aristocratic family decides to isolate themselves from the changes brought by the revolution and begin living History in reverse. A surreal voyage from Socialism to cannibalism.
- DirectorNicolás Guillén Landrián
- DirectorPastor VegaStarsIdalia AnreusMiguel BenavidesSamuel ClaxtonTeresa is overwhelmed: with a husband, three young sons, a job as a crew leader in a textile factory, and volunteer commitments as cultural leader of her union. Her husband, Ramón, wants more of her attention; her feelings are mixed, wanting domestic peace, feeling responsibilities to the revolution, and wanting to control her own life beyond doing dirty dishes. They separate; he begins an affair. When he wants a reconciliation, she asks what his response would be if she'd had an affair too. "But men are different," is his reply. He's failed her test, and to hold on to independence and self-respect, she remains uncompromising and hard-edged.
- DirectorFausto CanelStarsSergio CorrieriRaúl EgurenYolanda Farr
- DirectorHumberto Solás
- DirectorMiriam TalaveraOscar Valdés
- DirectorJuan PadrónElpidio Valdés (ICAIC, 1979). It tells the birth of Elpidio, the death of his father and the beginnings of the War of Independence; as he knows María Silvia and how he becomes a scourge for the Spanish army, the counter-guerrilla and the American landowners. It develops almost totally in 1895.
- DirectorSantiago ÁlvarezStarsLena HorneA documentary short about racism in the United States.
- DirectorLuis Felipe Bernaza
- DirectorHumberto SolásStarsAdela LegráAdolfo LlauradóOlga GonzálezDuring the last days of the struggle against dictator Fulgencio Batista, a young peasant woman joins the guerrilla in the Sierra Maestra.
- DirectorTomás Gutiérrez AleaStarsSalvador WoodSilvia PlanasManuel EstanilloA young man attempts to fight the system in an entertaining account of bureaucracy amok and the tyranny of red tape.
- DirectorOrlando RojasStarsHarry BelafonteLetta MbuluBiography of singer and actor Harry Belafonte.
- DirectorSantiago ÁlvarezA short film which documents the lives of the people of Hanoi which took place on March 13.
- 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.
- DirectorJulio García EspinosaStarsJulito MartinezErdwin FernándezAdelaida RaymatThe metamorphoses of Juan Quin Quin, in turns bullfighter, guerrilla fighter and sacristan.
- DirectorMiguel Torres
- DirectorTomás Gutiérrez AleaStarsÓscar ÁlvarezMirta IbarraOmar ValdésA theater director and script-writer falls for a female worker from the Havana docks, but his machismo, social and working conflicts, and the Cuban woman's condition interfere with their relationship.
- DirectorEnrique Pineda Barnet
- DirectorRosario SuárezMarisol TrujilloStarsRosario Suárez