Leo Brouwer

Silvio Rodríguez learned to play guitar secretly during his military service. After 45 years of career, he's still in full musical activity and maintains his commitment to culture through their studio, Ojalá, and initiatives such as "La gira por los barrios", in which Silvio, barely advertised, performs in the most disadvantaged neighborhoods of Havana.

Тита и Педро любят друг друга. Но мать Титы не дает согласия на их брак: по давней семейной традиции младшая дочь должна заботиться о матери до самой ее смерти. Чтобы быть рядом с любимой, Педро… решает жениться на ее сестре! Живя под одной крышей, влюбленные лишены даже возможности выражать свои истинные чувства друг к другу. И Тита начинает выражать одолевающие ее эмоции при помощи экзотических блюд, подаваемых к семейному столу. Кто знает, к чему может привести эта скрытая любовь?

A man is released from prison, and after 18 years, returns to his village. But in this village, time, in many ways, has stood still. The time served by Juan complied with the court's justice, but not with some villagers. There are some who still seek true justice.

The first years of the Cuban Revolution characterized by social transformations and class struggles.

A 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.

Альсино, мальчик, живший со своей бабушкой в отдаленном районе Никарагуа. Он был захвачен войной между повстанцами и правительственными войсками, когда Америка решила открыть плацдарм на землях семьи мальчика. Он продолжает стараться жить обычной жизнью: гулять, лазить по деревьям, играть с девочками, но война все равно входит в его жизнь. Конфликт втягивает его, и теперь он уже часть этой войны.

In 1914, during World Ward I, Amada, a bourgeois wife, falls in love with her cousin Marcial, a young idealist who is fighting against the Cuban regime in power.

Видный политический деятель господин Монтель скоропостижно умирает в разгар революционных волнений в своей стране. Вдова сталкивается с тем миром, в котором ее супруг обитал в то время, пока Аделаида проживала в своих иллюзиях. Оказалось, что ее муж — вовсе не такой уж и любимый народом деятель. Аделаида просит приехать на похороны своих детей, которые живут в Париже, но они отвечают, что не хотят возвращаться в страну, где каждый день убивают людей. Вдова узнает горькую правду — на похороны господина Монтеля почти никто не пришел..

A bourgeois Cuban family of aristocratic origin locks itself into its mansion when the Cuban Revolution comes to power, waiting for the new regime to be overthrown. As time passes, they regress to older and older systems of policital order, from capitalism to feudalism to "primitive savagery."

Set in the early 1900s, this film charts the rule of a Latin American dictator as he moves from being a charming despot to a tyrannical ruler before he is finally ousted, only to die in obscurity in Paris. Early in his regime, the resources and agricultural products his country sells command high prices, and he is a reasonably confident, even gentle, ruler who likes to take long vacations with his daughter in Paris. After World War I, with falling prices and a number of coup attempts behind him, his rule becomes quite cruel.

Based on the events leading to the Spanish-America War of 1898. It reflects on the expansionist policies of the United States since its inception. A historical chronology that shows the consequences for Puerto Rico of the imperialist war against Spain: colonization and relentless attempts to annex it to the States.

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 story of the Santa María School massacre of miners in 1907.

A pious plantation owner attempts to teach Christianity to 12 of his slaves by inviting them to participate in a reenactment of the Last Supper.

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.

1964, in the Escambray mountains: the area is infested with counter- revolutionary bands which are trying to spread terror among the population and re-establish contact with the US, CIA. The murder of a man led to a reprisal to wipe out the bandits.

In 1672 Cuban revolutionaries launch an uprising against the Spanish who are occupying the country.

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

История борьбы кубинского народа за свою независимость показана через судьбы трех женщин. Героиня первой новеллы вынуждена предать родных ради любви к испанскому солдату. Героиня второй новеллы вынуждена уйти из семьи ради любви. И, наконец, героиня третьей истории пытается отстоять свое право работать в колхозе.

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.

In the aftermath of the Bay of Pigs incident, Sergio chooses to stay behind in Cuba while his wife and family escape to neighboring Miami. Alone in a brave new world, Sergio observes the constant threat of foreign invasion while chasing young women all over Havana. He finally meets Elena, a young virgin girl he seeks to mould into the image of his ex-wife, but at what cost to himself?

This is a montage of different images from the JFK, Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy triumphs and assassinations, all three events being observed by Lyndon Johnson as the dark figure who is plotting the anti-black rights movement.

A young man attempts to fight the system in an entertaining account of bureaucracy amok and the tyranny of red tape. Restored by the Academy Film Archive and the Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industrias Cinematográficos in 2019.

Юный крестьянин Педро уходит из дома, чтобы присоединиться к повстанческой армии. Ему удается прийти в партизанский отряд не с пустыми руками: перед побегом он крадет карабин у солдата расквартированной в его деревне части. Но романтические представления юноши о революционной борьбе оказываются мало похожи на реальность. В отряде Педро ждут суровые будни молодого бойца. Прежде, чем оказаться на передовой, ему предстоит пройти нелегкое обучение, где во главу угла ставится незнакомое ему прежде слово «дисциплина»…

Фильм состоит из трёх новелл – «Раненый», «Повстанцы» и «Санта-Клара», в которых рассказывается о борьбе кубинского народа за свою свободу в 1957–1958 годах.