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Cuban Playwright and LGBTI Activist Norge Espinosa (Video)

Filmmaker Yaima Pardo interviews Cuban playwright, theater critic and LGBTI activist Norge Espinosa. Subtitles in English

A Testament of Fidel Castro Appears in Paris

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

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.

Song for Cuba

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.

Trusting Rain

Collecting rain-water is a way of life in Bermuda, like it could be in many countries including many parts of Cuba. Each household is responsible for their water supply. Few travelers to the spectacular island are aware of this centuries old method of water conservation.

Before the War

A man returns home from a war. His physical scars are healed but the emotional ones are so deep that he will never be the same. The National Screen Institute of Canada (NSI) posted this short film by Cuban director Tamara Segura.

The Load (documentary)

A striking, beautifully filmed observation of life aboard an old freight train: a microcosm where a group of men forced to spend a lot of time together amid a variety of unplanned circumstances.

The Hidden Face of “Ordinary” Cuba (Doc.)

Pero la Noche” (But the night) brings us the hidden face of what is at times “ordinary” in Cuban society. Three human beings choose to love, even if it entails a sacrifice – a sacrifice that has become a pleasure. (Doc. 26 min.)

A Wedding in Havana (documentary)

The documentary “A Wedding in Havana” was made during the height of the mid-1990s Special Period economic crisis, a crisis that for many Cubans never fully ended to this day. It gives us some insight into a period in time that people prefer not to talk much about from the disillusionment and pain it represented.

Are There Indians in Cuba or Were They All Killed? (Video with Eng. subtitles)

A descendant of the Indian people of Cuba maintains strong links with his ancestors. He questions the past and present world with a commitment to maintain and renew their legacy to transmit it on to new generations.