Riomar is maybe a Titanic with the vast sea behind, sometimes calm, other times stormy. However, indifference is the storm that is making it crumble away, the salty air is just a undercover agent. It was a luxurious Titanic once upon a time, moored in Miramar, Havana.
We are the Alvaro Conrado April 19th Movement in Panama, born from the need to create a community of Nicaraguans united to serve as a support network and accompaniment to the thousands of Nicaraguan brothers and sisters who have been forced to emigrate and take refuge in the wake of the sociopolitical crisis In Nicaragua.
On March 5, the exiled Nicaraguan singer-songwriter Carlos Mejía Godoy was returning to Costa Rica from San Francisco, USA, where he performed in concert with the group “Tierra Fertil”. While on a layover of a couple of hours in Panama, he was received at the Tocumen Airport by a group of Nicaraguan exiles, members of the April 19th Alvaro Conrado Movement in Panama.
Papi, a famous reggaeton singer, wakes up late at night when he hears a noise in his living room. Yes, a burglar has broken into his home. The singer gets ready to let the thief have it, unaware that after this event his life will never be the same…
The majestic island of Ometepe, located in the Lake of Nicaragua, was known as an “Oasis of Peace” but now, the government of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo have managed to transform it into an “Island of Terror”.
For a short time, I tried to focus on what was going on in Cuba and elsewhere around this musical phenomenon and its lyrics, which, in my opinion, nearly always belittle women in every aspect, generally-speaking.
Filmmaker Yaima Pardo interviews Cuban playwright, theater critic and LGBTI activist Norge Espinosa. Subtitles in English
Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara and Yanelys Nuñez Leyva, recreate through a fiction piece, a supposed political testament found with the last reflections of Fidel Castro about his government, the Revolution and the future of Cuba.
The Gift is an animation by Jasser Barbier about the meeting of two characters from the works of the plastic artist Nur Diez, a graduate from the San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts in Havana. You can find her pieces in galleries in Old Havana or by contacting her directly.
This short experimental documentary by Tamara Segura about memory and music follows a young Cuban couple charting a new course for their lives on an island in the North Atlantic.