Biopic del icónico guerrillero y revolucionario Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, basado en su diario. I parte. Narra el periodo de la guerrilla en Sierra Maestra, bajo el mando de Fidel Castro, desde el desembarco del Granma en diciembre de 1956, hasta la huida de Batista, presidente que gobernaba Cuba con el beneplácito de los americanos desde 1952... En el Festival de Cannes "Che" se emitió íntegramente (cuatro 4 horas y media). En los cines comerciales se emitió dividida en dos películas: "Che: El argentino" y "Guerrilla".
Es 1958. Tras instalarse en La Habana, a donde ha sido destinado su padre, en la joven Katey Miller se despierta una entusiasta curiosidad por la cultura hispana. Después de recibir clases de bailes de salón, se une al grupo de jóvenes americanos que se alojan también en el exclusivo hotel Océana. Allí conoce a Javier, camarero y excelente bailarín. Decidida a aprender esos ritmos que Javier parece llevar en la sangre, Katey lo convence para que sea su pareja en un prestigioso concurso nacional de baile que se celebra en el club Palace. Así empezarán a ensayar sensuales y armoniosos pasos en el Havana nightclub, mientras la pasión va surgiendo entre ellos.
En 1952, siendo el «Che» Guevara (Gael García Bernal) estudiante de medicina, recorrió América del Sur, con su amigo Alberto Granado (Rodrigo de la Serna), en una destartalada moto. Ernesto es un joven estudiante de medicina de 23 años de edad, especializado en lepra. Alberto es un bioquímico de 29 años. Ambos jóvenes emprenden un viaje de descubrimiento de la rica y compleja topografía humana y social del continente hispanoamericano. Los dos dejaron atrás el familiar entorno de Buenos Aires en una desvencijada motocicleta Norton de 500 cc, imbuidos de un romántico espíritu aventurero.
Four vignettes on the lives of the Cuban people in the pre-revolutionary era. In Havana, Maria is ashamed when a man she loves discovers how she makes a living. Pedro, an old farmer, discovers that the land he cultivates is being sold to an American company. A student sees his friends attacked by the police while they distribute leaflets supporting Fidel Castro. Finally, a peasant family is threatened by Batista's army.
Spanning several decades, this powerful biopic offers a glimpse into the life of famed Cuban poet and novelist Reinaldo Arenas, an artist who was vilified for his homosexuality in Fidel Castro's Cuba.
Copenhagen, Denmark, 1962. When a high-ranking Soviet official decides to change sides, a French intelligence agent is caught up in a cold, silent and bloody spy war in which his own family will play a decisive role.
An American professional gambler named Jack Weil decides to visit Havana, Cuba to gamble. On the boat to Havana, he meets Roberta Duran, the wife of a revolutionary, Arturo. Shortly after their arrival, Arturo is taken away by the secret police, and Roberta is captured and tortured. Jack frees her, but she continues to support the revolution.
A British mercenary arrives in pre-Revolution Cuba to help train the corrupt General Batista's army against Castro's guerrillas while he also romances a former lover now married to an unscrupulous plantation owner.
The friendship between two children is threatened by their parents’ differences. Malú is from a family that was upper-class before the Revolution and remains well-to-do through remittances from relatives overseas, and her single mother (Larisa Vega Alamar) does not want her to play with Jorgito, as she thinks his background coarse and commonplace. Jorgito’s mother (Luisa María Jiménez Rodríguez),
A crook decides to bump off members of his inept crew and blame their deaths on a legendary sea creature. What he doesn't know is that the creature is real.
Two American gun runners at odds with each other and looking to sell guns to the rebels during the Cuban War of Independence navigate a boat to Cuba. Along for the ride is a beautiful Cuban rebel in who both men are interested.
Oliver Stone spends three days filming with Fidel Castro in Cuba, discussing an array of subjects with the president such as his rise to power, fellow revolutionary Che Guevara, the Cuban Missile crisis, and the present state of the country.
A photo montage of Cubans filmed by Agnès Varda during her visit to Cuba in 1963, four years after Fidel Castro came to power. This black & white documentary explores their socialist culture and society while making use of 1500 pictures (out of 4000!) the filmmaker took while on the island.
The story of Cuban refugees who risked their lives in homemade rafts to reach the United States, and what life is like for those who succeed.
The two young Swedish journalist's Erik Gandini and Tarik Saleh have worked one year with Sacrificio, a film about the events surrounding the death of Che Guevara. They have traveled the world around and met among others the man who shot Che Guevara and the former CIA agent who walks around with Che's last tobacco in his pistol butt. In their attempts to find out what really happened they discover that the man who is accused of having betrayed Che Guevara as a matter of fact lives in Malmö, in the south of Sweden.
Cuba, as we knew it, is dying. The US Embassy has just opened in Cuba, and the Cuban in the USA after 54 years. Cubans are craving to be connected to the Internet, buy at Zara, eat at Burger King and have Apple gadgets Nevertheless, Fidel, the leader of the Revolution, is alone and hiding. He is, like Cuba, in decline.
Fidel Castro rises to power in Cuba.
A story about a simple man from the mountains, Guaguasi, who falls in love with a beautiful chorus girl, Marina, during the Cuban Revolution. Guaguasi joins the rebels and arrives in Havana at the end of Batista's dictatorship, and, in the midst of political turmoil, is swept off his feet by the mesmerising Marina. The story celebrates the vitality and lunacy of the Revolution period with surrealism, humor and sensuality and is a compassionate metaphor about the human condition.
Cuba, 1961: 250,000 volunteers taught 700,000 people to read and write in one year. 100,000 of the teachers were under 18 years old. Over half were women. MAESTRA explores this story through the personal testimonies of the young women who went out to teach literacy in rural communities across the island - and found themselves deeply transformed in the process.
The first years of the Cuban Revolution characterized by social transformations and class struggles.