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- John, looking for the mother in Cuba he hasn't seen in thirty years, is surprised to discover just her corpse minus her head, and further to find that the rest of his family there, who are stranger than he thought, are not all that helpful in his quest.
- Documentary about the iconic portrait of Ernesto 'Che' Guevara by Cuban photographer Alberto Diaz Gutiérrez (known as 'Korda').
- Each day at Havana's "Colón" Cemetery a mass exhumation procedure takes place.
- A group of children in the Cuban countryside, are given the opportunity of shooting the movie of their dreams with a VHS camcorder.
- A look into the lives of a group of old women who live in a home in Havana. Their bodies, their voices and tempo, their obsessions.
- The author establishes a communication with his cancer-sick mother through text messages from Cuba. During his stay in the island the author works on an research for a possible documentary, he is impacted by a series of places, displacements and intimate situations that remind him of the path of his own self.
- In 2010 a musical tour began that would go deep into Cuba. Completed after two years of travel, the experiences weave a map of invisible Cuba, whose complexity is revealed through the voices of the film's participants. English subtitles coming soon.
- The series begins with the end of high school, where a group of wealthy friends who possibly live in El Vedado (not specified), meet to make a pact of eternal friendship. They all plan to go camping this summer with the group's main teacher. Another group of friends from another school in a more humble neighborhood, do not have time for pacts or trivialities, and are immersed, especially one of them, in the problems of alcoholic parents, they also go camping with their teacher. On the bus that takes them, problems begin between groups of young people of different social status. Upon arriving at the campsite, new characters appear who interact with the boys and the social differences and criteria are manifested more strongly, but a feeling of solidarity begins to emerge between them which later transforms into a nascent friendship, due to the ties that they have formed in the middle of exuberant nature.
- The History of the Cuban Revolution through the personal experiences of writer Rafael Alcides, a once well known poet who became Nobody.
- Two brothers and their elderly mother live isolated from everything. The loud squealing of the pigs helps things stay calm.
- A young woman from the country has a son from a young man of a rich family. The rich grandfather of the man, owner of the farm, takes the child away to educate him. A few years later the young woman marries a poor farmer. She rejects the child she has with him and only understands she loves him when the rival brothers fight against each other in a duel.
- The Che Guevara tattoo lies on the surface of the skin, but how deep does it's ink run? Half of a century after his death, the most famous Guerrilla Commander still lives in the streets of Havana, Cuba. People of all ages and backgrounds worship his image but they do not live by the ideals he died for. By revealing a world of social and ideological contradictions, "Checking" takes us on an illuminating journey that will forever change the outside world's perspective of Cuba.
- Six standalone feature documentaries exploring a universal human need as defined by a Kenyan woman farmer: Sustenance, Love, Faith, Culture, Fear and Hope. Shot by emerging filmmakers from seven film schools in eight diverse communities around the world - Samoa, Colombia, Jordan, Harlem, Madrid, Portugal, Calcutta and the Dominican Republic, it is a collective portrait of humanity today.
- Regina and Mauricio's long voyage dates back to when and how they met and fell in love, in the Utopian Cuba of the 1980s. During the couple's journey, there is an allusion to the opposition of Regina's father, who decided to disown the union with a mulatto from a poor family. Despite the many prejudices and obstacles, Regina and Mauricio stayed together for more than 35 years.
- Born to Korean immigrant parents freed from indentured servitude in early twentieth century Mexico, Jerónimo Lim Kim joins the Cuban Revolution with his law school classmate Fidel Castro and becomes an accomplished government official in the Castro regime, until he rediscovers his ethnic roots and dedicates his later life to reconstructing his Korean Cuban identity. After Jerónimo's death, younger Korean Cubans recognize his legacy, but it is not until they are presented with the opportunity to visit South Korea that questions about their mixed identity resurface.
- On New Year's Eve, a banker and his wife invite several friends to have dinner in their apartment. Suddenly, an astrologer makes an appearance and predicts seven of the present people will die in the next weeks.
- In a blind world, an old man named Patricio travels out of town next to Victor, a man with a machine that can record sounds of the past.
- Eyes of the Rainbow deals with the life of Assata Shakur, the Black Panther and Black Liberation Army leader who escaped from prison and was given political asylum in Cuba, where she has lived for close to 15 years.
- A group of young people find, in fantasy, the image of themselves in their old age. This representation of the future confronts them with deceit and human miseries. They must accept their destiny or try to change it.
- An intersex hero sets out on a quest to find a red rose in a world where one has never existed.
- Four vignettes about the lives of the Cuban people set during the pre-revolutionary era.
- After the Revolution, gays were not respected in Cuba, but in the small Havana neighborhood of La Güinera, a few courageous women came to power and encouraged the gay community. Glamorous gowns fashioned from grain sacks and eyelashes made out of carbon paper are the reality of drag in Cuba. In La Güinera, gay transvestite performers have earned respect and status through creative work for the neighbourhood. On stage action and backstage preparation opens out into insightful interviews with community leaders, families, and the performers themselves. the question; can you be gay and accepted in Cuba?
- A documentary about 11 Cuban boxing legends who decided to stay in their country instead of deserting and trying a professional career.
- Residents of Los Angeles go about their day unaware that a mysterious event is about to change their lives. FBI agents Mark Benford and Demetri Noh are in a car chase; Benford's physician wife is in the middle of surgery; and Benford's friend Aaron Stark works on power lines high above the ground. Suddenly, something causes everyone in the world to black out for just over two minutes. During that time, each person sees a series of events in his or her own future -- some good, some bad, some apparently nonexistent. As people begin to piece together their visions on a worldwide website, Mark and Demetri use the information to try to pinpoint the cause of the blackout, and people are still trying to determine whether destiny can be changed, and what effect those changes may have on others.
- A school-ship suffers an accident resulting in just the one human survivor and one android. The ship is warped through a wormhole and crash lands in Shiralad where civilizations are in an Iron Age state of development according to Earth's history.
- "Rabbit" is an experiment between the daily and the theatre that plays with the psychology of the characters and the audiences.
- Biography built from unpublished military and family archive material, highlights the formation of Ernesto Guevara, his poetic view of reality, his thought at the service of action and his desire for the construction of a new world.
- A shy country boy gets caught between the peer pressure of his buddies and his love for an overweight, strong willed but likable girl.
- On a tiny island in Eastern Cuba, the inhabitants gather around to tell stories that have marked them. Their memories and fears float around like visiting spirits and a sense of imminent liberation is present. A poignant take on the need to overcome the past in order to face the present.
- Pedro Quijano is a cattle tender who used to be the champion in milk production and lowest mortality of cattle in a site of Escambray mountains in Cuba. For this reason he was normally called Pedro Zero Percentage. Pedro had a family composed of two daughters, Carolina who used to work always with his father, and Purita quiet rebel lovesick in Lupesio, the son of Vicente, another cattle tender, but Pedro's enemy. Their rivalry consisted in their competition to be the most productive cow producer of the region. Vicente had once one of his cows dead and for this reason he was called Vicente Menos (Minus One). The other Vicente's daughter, Blanquita, was lovesick of the Pedro's god son, Trino. So with all this enmity, the couples were never allowed to meet. The end of the film showed a reconciliation of both families for the health of cattle production in that area. Reynaldo Miravalles and Orlando Casin acted very well and gave the necessary colour to this comedy.
- Mike Porcel is the lost member of the Cuban "Nueva Trova" musical movement: his lack of revolutionary spirit condemned him to the rejection of his colleagues and turned him into an outcast for a decade, until he managed to go into exile. Without resentment, but without forgetting, the film reconstructs his story and rekindles a forgotten brilliance.
- A second-generation Cuban-American travels to Cuba for the first time to reconnect with his past, but only alienates himself further.
- Raúl lives in a small town. He is an exemplary worker, a good son, and a good neighbor. He seems to perfectly embody the model of the New Man created by the Cuban Revolution. However, Raúl hides a secret.