Cuba

The story of how Cuba has challenged the world for 60 years.

La amistad entre dos niños se ve amenazada por las diferencias entre sus padres. Malú pertenece a una familia de la clase alta, y su madre soltera no quiere que ella juege con Jorgito, pues piensa que su estatus es burdo y ordinario. La madre de Jorgito, una socialista pobre y orgullosa de su estatus social de su familia, pone restricciones similares a su hijo. Lo que ninguna de las mujeres reconoce es la inmensa fortaleza que tiene el vínculo entre Malú y Jorgito. Cuando los niños se dan cuenta de que la madre de Malú planea irse de Cuba, ellos deciden viajar al otro lado de la isla para convencer a el padre de Malú de no firmar los documentos que se lo permitan…

This study of Cuba–partially written by renowned poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko–captures the island just before it made the transition to a post-revolutionary society. Moving from city to country and back again, I AM CUBA examines the various problems caused by political oppression as well as by great discrepancies in wealth and power. Beginning in Havana in the pre-Castro era, we see how foreigners contributed to the city's prostitution and poverty; this sequence features dreamy, hallucinogenic camera work that creates a feeling of unease and dislocation. Then, in glorious images of palm tress and fertile land, the film looks at the sugar cane fields in the countryside, and the difficulties faced by peasants working the land. Finally, back in the city again, leftist students battle the police and a corrupt government–and pay a high price for their rebellion.

La amistad entre dos niños se ve amenazada por las diferencias entre sus padres. Malú pertenece a una familia de la clase alta, y su madre soltera no quiere que ella juege con Jorgito, pues piensa que su estatus es burdo y ordinario. La madre de Jorgito, una socialista pobre y orgullosa de su estatus social de su familia, pone restricciones similares a su hijo…

After decades of persecution and neglect, Cuba’s LGBT community finds itself in the midst of a new struggle – the fight for equality. The leader of this uprising is Mariela Castro, charismatic daughter of President Raúl Castro and a member of Cuba’s National Assembly, who uses her passion and pedigree to promote acceptance in the face of prejudice. Mariela Castro’s March: Cuba’s LGBT Revolution follows Castro and her LGBT supporters as they spread their universal message of equality across the country.

Can Cuba's innovative lung cancer vaccines give new hope to patients across the world?
In Cuba, as in the United States, lung cancer is a leading cause of death. But decades of economic and political isolation have starved the country of medical resources, leading Cuba's biomedical researchers to invent their own immunotherapies. Among them are lung cancer vaccines that can help jumpstart the body's immune response to cancer. Some U.S. patients are even defying their country's trade embargo to travel to Cuba for treatment.

Adventurer and journalist Simon Reeve heads to Cuba to find a communist country in the middle of a capitalist revolution. Two years ago Cuba announced the most sweeping and radical economic reforms the country has seen in decades. From ending state rationing to cutting one million public-sector jobs, one of the last communist bastions in the world has begun rolling back the state on an unprecedented scale. Simon Reeve meets ordinary Cubans whose lives are being transformed, from the owners of fledgling businesses to the newly rich estate agents selling properties worth up to £750,000.