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Caribbean
see all genres ›The 2,000-mile-long stretch of some 7,000 islands, including Cuba, Haiti, the Bahamas, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Barbados, spanning from Florida's southern tip toward northernmost Venezuela, has often attracted filmmakers looking for exotic settings as well as real-life political drama.
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Accelerated Under-Development
What is a filmmaker? It is this vague, perhaps vain question that Travis Wilkerson hoped to answer clearly when he went to Cuba to question Santiago Alvarez, a legend of militant cinema. Although he had seen none of his films, Wilkerson did an interview with the master that quickly became something of a...Start your free trial to watch
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Cerro Pelado
Though lesser known than Leni Riefenstahl’s OLYMPIA or Kon Ichikawa’s TOKYO OLYMPIAD, Santiago Alvarez’s tribute to Cuba’s sporting triumphs is no less breathtaking. A ship of athletes training on the rough seas becomes a symbol of Castro’s Cuba, the games projected on the backdrop of political struggle: “This is the story of...Start your free trial to watch
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Cuban Rebel Girls
No one would likely ever claim that CUBAN REBEL GIRLS is a good film. The title, alone, should be a bit of a giveaway. But it is a fascinating story, regardless. This curious effort was the final film by actor (and, in this case, writer) Errol Flynn. Flynn portrays a war correspondent in Cuba intent on...Start your free trial to watch
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Divine Horsemen
In 1946, Maya Deren was the first filmmaker ever awarded an artistic Guggenheim grant. With the $3,000 prize money, she traveled to Haiti, a country she would visit four times and where she would spend a total of nearly two years. Deren was the first known white woman to became a high priestess of Haitian Voodoun, a religion...Start your free trial to watch
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Elpidio Valdés
From the legendary Cuban director of VAMPIROS EN LA HABANA, ELPIDIO VALDES is the most popular animation character in Cuban history. A Robin Hood character on a global scale, he represents the working class and the disenfranchised. His heroic actions include fighting the evils of capitalism manifested as greedy businessmen...Start your free trial to watch
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Hanoi, Martes 13
Santiago Alvarez’s tribute to the Vietnamese people transcends its narrow aim as anti-imperialist agit-prop. Patient documentation of local folkways contextualizes the American military actions as brutal, unnatural incursions. Alvarez’s camera was there when the bombs fell on Hanoi and stayed on to witness...Start your free trial to watch
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Hasta la victoria siempre
Cuban agit-prop filmmaker Santiago Alvarez produced this radical newsreel within forty-eight hours of Che Guevara’s death by special request of Fidel Castro himself. Fellow filmmaker and Alvarez admirer Travis Wilkerson accordingly calls it “a pure distillation of the highly unusual conditions of...Start your free trial to watch
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LBJ
Most definitely an unauthorized biography, Cuban agit-prop filmmaker Santiago Alvarez scavenges imagery from LIFE magazine, cowboy movies and Playboy to lampoon Lyndon B. Johnson’s tyranny. The assassinations of John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert and Martin Luther King, Jr. are all laid at Johnson’s doorstep. Delivered with...Start your free trial to watch
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Man Free
MAN FREE moves way beyond traditional travel programming to present the country of Jamaica as we have never seen it before. With insightful commentary by legendary Jamaican filmmaker Perry Henzell (THE HARDER THEY COME), MAN FREE sheds a light on real life in Jamaica. It’s not all reggae and beaches. It is also a land of...Start your free trial to watch
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Marcus Garvey: A Giant of Black Politics
Black Nationalist pioneer and First Hero of Jamaica, Marcus Garvey is discussed by contemporaries, historians, family and friends. The film traces his early successes in organizing West Indian contract labor, to the phenomenal rise of his Universal Negro Improvement Association, which took America by storm...Start your free trial to watch
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Nada+
Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti's NADA+ is a remarkable debut feature that explores the repressive, crippling political and social aspects of today's Cuba while turning upside-down all of our comfortably clichéd expectations about the United State's island neighbor. Carla is a young postal worker who dreams of joining her...Start your free trial to watch
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Salut les Cubains
The final film in the CINEVARDAPHOTO triptych is the oldest, SALUT LES CUBAINS. In 1963, Varda thoughtfully gave order to 1,800 photos that she had recently taken on a trip to Cuba. In just 30 minutes, the photographer/filmmaker achieves a sprawling depiction of the country, its people, its music, its...Start your free trial to watch
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79 primaveras
Santiago Alvarez’s portrait of Ho Chi Minh braids beauty and devastation from its opening montage of blooming flowers and bomb clouds. Poring over documentary footage of the Vietnamese leader to search out the signs of bravery, Alvarez tracks Ho's political education from the French communist party to Dien Bien Phu,...Start your free trial to watch
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El sueno del Pongo
A child recounts a peasant’s dream, while illustrative still images suggest a parable for the ages. EL SUENO DEL PONGO may be a relatively restrained entry in Santiago’s Alvarez’s incendiary filmography but it deals no less decisively with injustice.Start your free trial to watch
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Tell Me in the Sunlight
A sailor and an exotic dancer fall in love on the beaches of Nassau. Unfortunately, the girl already has a lover. An unusual and bizarre love triangle begins. This provocative movie was filmed in 1965 but not released until 1967, two years after lead actor, writer, producer and director Steve Cochran's death.Start your free trial to watch
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El tigre saltó y mató, pero morirá... morirá...
Cuban filmmaker Santiago Alvarez’s hurried response to the 1973 Chilean coup d’état rests upon the music of Victor Jara, the folk singer who was brutally murdered within days after Augusto Pinochet assumed power. Connecting events in Chile to other repressive police crackdowns throughout the world (and...Start your free trial to watch
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U.S. Troops Landing at Daiquiri, Cuba
X-ray exhibitor-turned-cinematographer William Paley was hired as an Edison-licensed cameraman in March 1898 and was sent to Florida where he took numerous films of U.S. military activities. He was apparently on board the armada of naval ships that stormed Cuban shores and took a number of films on the...Start your free trial to watch