Santiago Álvarez Movies

This is a montage of different images from the JFK, Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy triumphs and assassinations, all three events being observed...

Using morgue photos, newsreel footage, and a recording by Lena Horne, Cuban filmmaker Santiago Alvarez fired off 'Now!', one of the most powerful...

This film memorializes the leader of Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh, on the occasion of his death. It narrates the story of a life which is also the story of a...

An educational documentary film about planting and harvesting tomatoes.

The 1960 Havana Carnival is presented in a romantic story.

Documentary in four parts on Latin American cinema. Fourth episode: in Cuba, the ICAIC, created in the aftermath of the Castro revolution, is at once...

Documentary about the relationship between filmmaker Glauber Rocha and Cuba.

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....

Recollections of Fidel Castro's visit to Chile on November, 1971, and of the historical imperialist exploitation of Latin America.

Follows the Cuban leader into the home of a 93 year old acquaintance of Jose Marti, who is now blind and who takes the duration of the film to...

The opening ceremony of the First National Sports Games in Cuba. A runner carrying the Olympic torch enters the stadium while hundreds of flag...

In December 1967, a Cuban film crew led by Santiago Alvarez, the veteran polemicist, travelled to Hanoi. They shot the footage which constitutes this...

An ordinary man goes to work in a rich household of Peru and has a dream in which he sees his boss and himself appearing as equal in front of the...

CICLÓN is a coverage of hurricane Flora's sweeping the Cuban provinces of Camagüey and Oriente in October 1963: the damage, the...

An obituary for Victor Jara, the Chilean folksinger who was murdered in a football stadium by the military junta during the days of the September...

A famous composer creative in crisis and must compose a new album, but is going through a painful separation that prevents him from concentrating. In...

This film confronts the failures of the Cuban economy, although it is made in a Guevara-like spirit of moral exhortation rather than criticism.

Short documentary recounting the history of the Santiago de Cuba carnival.