Iván Nápoles

Ana Deborah Mola e Belkis Lescaille estavam entre os primeiros jovens professores que iniciaram programas-piloto na ilha de Cuba em 1960, lançando as bases para a massiva Campanha Nacional de Alfabetização que aconteceria no ano seguinte.

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.

Através dos arquivos do cinejornal cubano Noticieros ICAIC Latinoamericanos, o filme mostra os acontecimentos mais marcantes da segunda metade do século XX visto pelas lentes dos documentaristas da ilha.

Através dos arquivos do cinejornal cubano Noticieros ICAIC Latinoamericanos, o filme mostra os acontecimentos mais marcantes da segunda metade do século XX visto pelas lentes dos documentaristas da ilha.

Através dos arquivos do cinejornal cubano Noticieros ICAIC Latinoamericanos, o filme mostra os acontecimentos mais marcantes da segunda metade do século XX visto pelas lentes dos documentaristas da ilha.

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

Documentário que procura traçar um paralelo sociológico entre cubanos e brasileiros, através de diversas similaridades culturais que são apresentadas entre os dois povos.

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.

Follows the Cuban leader into the home of a 93 year old acquaintance of Jose Marti, who is now blind and who takes the duration of the film to realize who his illustrious interviewer actually is.

Follows the Cuban leader into the home of a 93 year old acquaintance of Jose Marti, who is now blind and who takes the duration of the film to realize who his illustrious interviewer actually is.

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.

In December 1967 a Cuban film crew led by Santiago Alvarez, the veteran polemicist, traveled to Hanoi. They shot the footage which constitutes this short documentary all in one day - Tuesday 13. The film is the story of that day, and what happened to the North Vietnamese people in the course of it.