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Chilean Director Pablo Larrain Satirizes Pinochet in Venice

“Pinochet never faced justice and that impunity made him eternal, it turned him into a vampire,” said the award-winning Chilean director.

“In order to talk about the beginnings of reparto music, we have to start with the force of reggaeton which began in Cuba about 20 years ago.”

“It is a song that seeks to inspire Nicaraguans to continue the struggle for freedom,” explains Carla Mendoza, author of the song’s lyrics.

Ichaso’s “El Super” marks a difference in Cuban film made in the US as it strips itself of the political rhetoric that limited other movies.

It’s all bad, really bad, if, to defend freedom, you use the same vile methods – used by those who have prostituted and tyrannized our people.

It’s makes perfect sense that people don’t agree with him filling his pockets while he supports those who repress his fellow Cubans…

Fresa y chocolate was the first fiction feature movie to openly deal with the subject of homophobia in Cuba; as well as other taboo subjects.

Nelsito’s world is a bed from which he watches his mother and the world she paints, with detailed images in his big eyes, frozen in time…

Rather than trying to tell Cuba I prefer to give the floor to the island’s inhabitants, and Lynn Cruz was in Marseille for a film festival.

Access to digital technology and the Internet has opened up a space for a community of Cuban graphic artists to multiply and mobilize.