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Screen Cuba presents: Escena Eliminada / Blank by Daniel Santoyo
Young filmmaker Daniel Santoyo directs this innovative short about a new pandemic that is sweeping the world which causes some of the dead to return to life. As a journalist is filmed showing a new facility to house bodies in an attempt to contain the disease, the camera inadvertently reveals the awakening of a woman’s… Read more
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Screen Cuba presents: …Y Tenemos Sabor / …And we’ve got flavour by Sara Gómez
Sara Gómez is a participant-observer in this rich documentary from 1967 about the origins of Afro Cuban music experienced through the instruments used. The film consists of short interviews, footage of impromptu street performances and some studio recordings. Gómez’s commitment to featuring multiple voices in the post-revolutionary society results in a fascinating history of how… Read more
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Screen Cuba presents: Strawberry and Chocolate (1993) by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea & Juan Carlos Tabio
The late Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, often cited as Cuba’s greatest director, worked alongside Juan Carlos Tabío to create this Oscar-nominated modern classic. The film charts the relationship of David, a young Communist student, with a flamboyant gay Catholic writer, Diego. A Communist Party stalwart entices David to spy on Diego, to entrap him. Instead, David becomes… Read more
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Screen Cuba presents: José Martí, The Eye of the Canary by Fernando Pérez
An excellent example of an historical drama, a genre in which Cuban filmmakers excel. The Eye of the Canary is inspired by the little-known early years of José Martí, the great 19th century Cuban poet and activist, father of Cuban independence and national hero. The film tracks the boy’s growing political awareness, alternating between a grim realism… Read more
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Screen Cuba presents: NOW! by Santiago Álvarez
NOW! is a hard-hitting documentary short about the civil rights movement in the US. It was made in 1965 by Santiago Alvarez, known as one of the most influential documentary filmmakers the revolution produced. He had spent part of the 50s living in the States. For 30 years he headed up the Cuban Film Institute’s now… Read more
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Cuban designer Emii creates our Festival poster
Screen Cuba is delighted to announce that the accomplished Cuban graphic designer and illustrator Emilio Cruañas Pérez has created an amazing poster for the Film Festival. The poster is now on its way to the printers and we can’t wait to reveal it to you. It will be sold to raise funds for the digitisation… Read more
