Rafael Sosa

Un ouvrier cubain émérite meurt broyé par sa machine à fabriquer des bustes mortuaires. Selon ses voeux, on l'enterre avec son livret de travail. Malheureusement, sa veuve, pour recevoir sa pension, est obligée de fournir ce fameux livret. Le neveu du défunt entreprend alors les démarches nécessaires pour le récupérer.

Three stories reconstructing the start of the triumphant Cuban revolution which deposed Batista.

A Haitian son returns from fifteen years in Cuba to find his home village afflicted with the double plague of drought and strife. A Cuban production from the director of Memories of Underdevelopment. In Spanish.

Sergio, membre représentatif de la bourgeoisie, décide de faire escale dans le Cuba révolutionnaire de Fidel Castro à quelques jours de la crise des fusées. Il fait ainsi l'expérience de partager l'espace d'une page d'histoire la vie d'un pays sous-développé.

Explores the sensuous rhythms and movements of the dance style known as the rumba, as demonstrated by the celebrated Havana rumbero Papá Montero. Blending vintage documentary footage with meticulously staged recreations, the dancer's tragic assassination at Carnival is connected with the passing of a cultural era in Cuban life.

Europe in 1793. For years, England and France have been at war with each other. Now, France sends three men to the British colony of Jamaica to organize a slave revolt. The envoys are Debuisson, the grandson of a Jamaican rum manufacturer, who knows the island very well, his old friend Sasportas, and the sailor Galloudec. After having established contact with the fragmented rebel groups, they receive the surprising news of Napoleon′s takeover in France. Whereas Debuisson, who by now has gotten used to his role as a rich heir, wants to wait for new instructions from home, his companions are determined to press ahead with the revolt. When a slave kills a British guard, the situation escalates.