Iván Nápoles

Ana Deborah Mola and Belkis Lescaille were among the first young teachers who started pilot programs around the island of Cuba in 1960, laying foundation for the massive National Literacy Campaign that would take place the following year.

Cuba, 1961: 250,000 volunteers taught 700,000 people to read and write in one year. 100,000 of the teachers were under 18 years old. Over half were women. MAESTRA explores this story through the personal testimonies of the young women who went out to teach literacy in rural communities across the island - and found themselves deeply transformed in the process.

A documentary on the action of Ernesto "Che" Guevara in Congo (Zaire) in 1967.

Alvarez' longest documentary examination of the Cuban Revolution, this contains exceptional interviews with Fidel, Raúl, Almeida, Vilma, Haydee, Celia and Faustino Perez, among other key players in the Revolution.

El documental narra el encuentro entre Fidel Castro y Salustiano Leyva, un anciano que a los 11 años tuvo un encuentro con José Martí, en la breve visita que este hiciera a su casa el día que desembarcó por Playita de Cajobabo, el 11 de abril de 1895. Salustiano, sin saber por quién está siendo entrevistado debido a su mala visión, hace referencia a la presencia constante de Martí en la persona del comandante, y es luego, al final de la charla, que Fidel se da a conocer al anciano.

El documental narra el encuentro entre Fidel Castro y Salustiano Leyva, un anciano que a los 11 años tuvo un encuentro con José Martí, en la breve visita que este hiciera a su casa el día que desembarcó por Playita de Cajobabo, el 11 de abril de 1895. Salustiano, sin saber por quién está siendo entrevistado debido a su mala visión, hace referencia a la presencia constante de Martí en la persona del comandante, y es luego, al final de la charla, que Fidel se da a conocer al anciano.

The short film El primer delegado (The First Delegate), made by a group of ICAIC directors, recounts the moments in which José Martí announced the foundations and statutes of the Cuban Revolutionary Party, the tireless struggle that the hero sustained throughout his life to obtain independence, his gifts as a political organizer, the final founding of the party, of which he was the first delegate, and his offer to General Máximo Gómez of the military leadership of the insurrection, the final founding of the party, of which he was the first delegate, and his offer to General Máximo Gómez of the military leadership of the insurrection, all narrated live by an announcer who entertains with his reading the work of the cigar makers in a tobacco factory, until the documentary reaches its final climax: the symbolic reconversion of the old Marti's party into a new one.

An ordinary man goes to work in a rich household of Peru and has a dream in which he sees his boss and himself appearing as equal in front of the Archangel before going to heaven... Based on a tale by Jose Maria Argueda

This film memorializes the leader of Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh, on the occasion of his death. It narrates the story of a life which is also the story of a nation-recounting his important accomplishments in the struggle against colonialism and imperialism.

This film memorializes the leader of Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh, on the occasion of his death. It narrates the story of a life which is also the story of a nation-recounting his important accomplishments in the struggle against colonialism and imperialism.

This film confronts the failures of the Cuban economy, although it is made in a Guevara-like spirit of moral exhortation rather than criticism.

Con una estructura poética y narrativa, e incluyendo párrafos de José Martí escritos en 1889, se muestra cómo vivió y luchó por su libertad el pueblo vietnamita a partir del día en que comenzaron los bombardeos a la ciudad de Hanoi, durante la guerra del Vietnam.