Five years after the passing of the iconic filmmaker Humberto Solas, one of the founders of the New Latin American Cinema, partners, friends and family gather to evoke aspects of the life and work of Cuban artist of universal size.
Amor Crónico follows Grammy-nominated, Cuban-born CuCu Diamantes as she embarks on a whirlwind tour of her home country. Interweaving glamorous live performances with a fictional romance, the film pays tribute to the history of cinema in surreal fashion. Backed by a high energy Latin soundtrack, Cucu's journey is a visual love poem to the sites, sounds, and people of Cuba.
Jugadora
Doña Lupita
In Santa Fe de Tierra Firme, an imaginary Latin American country, the indigenous dictator Santos Banderas rules with an iron fist. A group of rebels trying to seize power by force while some liberals try a change of government legally.
The Castro revolution was just consolidating its power when, in 1961, over 100,000 students were sent from their schools into the countryside to teach the peasants there how to read. Coinciding with the Bay of Pigs invasion, in this docudrama, 15-year-old Mario (Salvador Wood) has come to a tiny village in the Zapata swamps and gradually wins the villagers over to his task. At the same time, he receives an education in the realities of rural life from the hard-working peasants.
Lucia III (1968)
A história de três mulheres (com mesmo nome) que vivem em momentos históricos diferentes em Cuba. A primeira, vinda de familia rica, vive na Cuba do final do séc XIX em meio das lutas da independência, onde se apaixona por um rico espanhol, que dará inicio a um pesadelo pessoal. A segunda, de familia de classe média, vive na Cuba da década de 30 sob a ditadura do ditador Machado e se apaixona por um militante de esquerda. A terceira, já na cuba revolucionária, é uma camponesa que trabalha nos campos coletivos e que se casa com um homem machista e autoritário.
A young girl joins the guerrilla