Feb 19, Black and Cuba
By Robin J. Hayes (2013, 83 min,
Documentary, US)
Street-smart students,
outcasts at an elite
Ivy League university,
band together and
travel to Cuba to see
if revolutionary
change is possible.
Feb 26, La Película de Ana
“Ana’s Film” by Daniel Díaz Torres (2012,
98 min, Comedy/drama, Cuba)
Ana is an actress
with a declining
career who also
needs a refrigerator.
She impersonates
a prostitute in
order to land a role
in a documentary financed by foreign filmmakers.
Complications arise when she learns
that the film will be shot from her point of
view as a jinetera.
Mar 5, Roble de Olor
“Scent of Oak” by Rigoberto López Pego,
(2003, 135 min, Drama, Cuba) On one level a
lush romance
at the beginning
of the
18th century,
but just beneath
the surface
is slavery
and the racial
divide in Cuba as it refracts the Haitian revolution
just across the water.
Mar 12, Tierralismo
Feature 1:By Alejandro Ramirez Anderson
(2014, 49 min, Documentary, Cuba)
A close
look at a
cooperative
urban farm
based on
organic
practices
that arose
out of necessity
following
the collapse of the Soviet Union and
easy access to chemicals and machinery.
Mar 12, Chernóbil en Nosotros
Feature 2: “Chernobyl in Us” by Daisy
Gómez (2006, 50 min, Documentary,
Cuba)
20 years after the nuclear disaster in Chernobyl,
Cuban television aired this film commemorating
the medical campaign that brought
23,000 radiation damaged children to Cuba for
medical care.
Mar 19, Conducta
“Behavior” By Ernesto Daranas (2014,
108 min, Drama, Cuba)
“Chala,” a 12 year old with a drug addict
mother and no father, spends his afternoons
training fighting dogs. A look at how Cuba’s
admirable education system still faces challenges
with at-risk children. Winner of Best
Picture, Havana Film Festival.
Mar 26, Hay un Grupo que Dice
“A Group is Saying” by Lourdes Prieto
(2013, 81 min, Documentary, Cuba)
Named after
a song by
Silvio Rodriguez,
the
film follows
the Grupo de
Experimentación
Sonora, a
symbol of
cultural resistance and creativity founded by
Silvio Rodriguez Pablo Milanés, Eduardo
Ramos, Sara Gonzáles, Noel Nicola, and Leo
Brouwer.
Welcoming a new era
in Cuba-US relations
$8.50: General admission. Box office
or at www.stanthonymaintheatre.com.
$6.00, box office only: Seniors, students,
Film Society of Mpls/St. Paul
members.
Films are in Spanish with English
subtitles and most are accompanied
by a short feature. Discussions will
take place following the films.
www.minnesotacubacommittee.org
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