In the News: Cuba
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The In the News: Cuba collection includes the following titles:
A History of an Assignment
Istoria odnoi komandirovki
Documentary
Russia, Cuba
Featuring Fidel Castro, John F. Kennedy, and Khrushchev as protagonists, the film depicts the ins and outs of the Cuban Missile Crisis of the 1960s.
Calls from Moscow
Llamadas desde Moscú
Documentary
Cuba, Germany, Norway
An apartment in Moscow becomes the stage for one day in the lives of four queer Cuban exiles, shortly before Putin’s invasion of Ukraine changes everything.
Fidel
Documentary
United States, Cuba
Just 9 years after Cuba's Revolution, filmmaker Saul Landau joined Fidel Castro in Cuba for an unprecedented interview for this classic documentary.
Return to Cuba
Volver a Cuba
Documentary
Cuba, Canada
After 18 years living in Italy, Barbara Ramos returns to live in the town of Santa Clara, in Cuba, her homeland. Through the projects of family and friends, she discovers what has changed, what hasn’t, and what will likely never change in her country.
Seguridad
Documentary
Canada, Cuba
A filmmaker confronts her father’s death and Cuba’s militarized past, weaving intimate family archives into a narrative of forgiveness and reckoning.
The Abattoir
El matadero
Documentary
Cuba
Two young men in a Cuban housing project chase dreams of escape through disillusionment, pig-raising, and filmmaking amid systemic stagnation.
The Padilla Affair
El Caso Padilla
Documentary
Spain, Cuba
La Habana, 1971: poet Heberto Padilla has just been released from prison and “self-confides” as a counter-revolutionary before the writer’s guild, marking a before and after in the Cuban regime.