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- DirectorSantiago ÁlvarezStarsNguyen Le HoangDocumentary film on the end of the Vietnam War, the fall of Saigon and the departure of American troops, as well as a tracing of 4000 years of Vietnamese culture.
- DirectorFernando VargasStarsIsabel SantosJorge Ortiz SánchezPaola RíosBeggining in La Higuera, 1967 where the body of Ernesto Che Guevara is laid out and later secretly buried, Di buen dia a papa returns to this location over ten year intervals to focus on three generations of women affected by the event.
- DirectorVíctor MartínStarsOscar de los ReyesCuban military personnel tell the story of the intervention of Cuba's armed forces on behalf of Angola's revolutionary government in the 1980s to defend it from attack by the pro-apartheid forces of South Africa.
- DirectorVladimir VaynshtokStarsLyudmila SavelevaEslinda NúñezEnrique SantistebanIn the middle of the 19th century, after bloody war with Mexico, Americans have begun conquest of the huge territory of Texas. At the new owner of a hacienda of Kasa-del-Korvo of business go far not brilliantly. Besides there is a terrible event: completely his son disappears. Suspicion of murder falls on the young mustanger Maurice Gerald with whom the owner's daughter is in love. When it seems that the execution is inevitable, the main witness of crime suddenly appears.
- DirectorJulio García EspinosaStarsBlas MoraWember BrosJosé Yedra
- DirectorTomás Gutiérrez AleaStarsEnrique SantistebanReynaldo MiravallesRené SánchezWhen her country is taken over by socialist revolutionaries, a wealthy woman can't bear to give up all of her wealth and possessions to the new government, so she hides her jewels in one of the 12 chairs of a dining-room set. After her death, her nephew finds out what she had done and, since the chairs had been "nationalized" and are now in the possession of a dozen different people, he sets out to track them down and get the jewels he believes rightfully belong to him.
- DirectorJulio García EspinosaStarsJulito MartinezErdwin FernándezAdelaida RaymatThe metamorphoses of Juan Quin Quin, in turns bullfighter, guerrilla fighter and sacristan.
- DirectorSergio GiralStarsMiguel BenavidesAlina SánchezRamón VelozBased on the novel Francisco by Anselmo Suárez y Romero, "The Other Francisco" is a socio-economic analysis of slavery and class struggle through the retelling of the original novel. The film contrasts the romantic conceptions of plantation life found in Suárez Romero's novel with a realistic expose of the actual historical conditions of slavery throughout the Americas. It offers a critical analysis of the novel, showing how the author's social background led to his use of particular dramatic structures to convey his liberal, humanitarian viewpoint.
- DirectorHumberto SolásStarsRaquel RevueltaEslinda NúñezAdela LegráTraces episodes in the lives of three Cuban women, each named Lucía, from three different historical periods: the Cuban war of independence (with Spain), the 1930s, and the 1960s.
- DirectorManuel Octavio GómezStarsIdalia AnreusRaúl PomaresAdolfo LlauradóBased on actual events that occurred in 1936 in Pinar Del Río, a province in Cuba; it tells the story of Antoñica Izquierdo, a peasant who attributed healing powers through water.
- DirectorMiguel LittinStarsNelson VillagraMarcelo GaeteRafael BenaventeIn 1930 Chile, amidst the economic crisis, syndicalist Jose spearheads the battle against landlords and the government.
- DirectorManuel PérezStarsMario BalmasedaSergio CorrieriRené de la CruzA documentary about a class struggle in the Escambray mountain range in Cuba.
- DirectorPastor VegaStarsIdalia AnreusMiguel BenavidesSamuel ClaxtonTeresa is overwhelmed: with a husband, three young sons, a job as a crew leader in a textile factory, and volunteer commitments as cultural leader of her union. Her husband, Ramón, wants more of her attention; her feelings are mixed, wanting domestic peace, feeling responsibilities to the revolution, and wanting to control her own life beyond doing dirty dishes. They separate; he begins an affair. When he wants a reconciliation, she asks what his response would be if she'd had an affair too. "But men are different," is his reply. He's failed her test, and to hold on to independence and self-respect, she remains uncompromising and hard-edged.
- DirectorTomás Gutiérrez AleaStarsSalvador WoodSilvia PlanasManuel EstanilloA young man attempts to fight the system in an entertaining account of bureaucracy amok and the tyranny of red tape.
- DirectorSergio GiralStarsSamuel ClaxtonMiguel NavarroRoberto BlancoDuring the late 1800s in Cuba, runaway African slaves hide in mountainous settlements after overpowering their Spanish masters. Discord soon follows: traitors are in their midst, secretly working for the Spanish.
- DirectorHumberto SolásStarsNelson VillagraShenda RománEric HeresmannAn epic, revolutionary retelling of the events leading up to an infamous massacre of striking miners in Chile in 1907.
- DirectorHumberto SolásStarsCésar ÉvoraRaquel RevueltaDaisy GranadosJavier Argüelles, an opportunistic young man from Cuban middle class, survives all kind of political changes in Havana, from 1932 to 1959, while his brother Darío is persecuted and killed because of his leftist ideas.
- DirectorPatricio GuzmánStarsPatxi AndiónJosé Antonio RodríguezNelson VillagraExiled Chilean director Patricio Guzmán filmed in Cuba and in Venezuela to create this controversial statement on the creation and survival of Latin American culture from the late-15th century to the present. For some viewers, the film will be superficially symbolic and rhetorical, for others, it will be a strong and personal vision of several centuries of history.
- DirectorMiguel LittinStarsDean StockwellAlan EsquivelCarmen BunsterAlsino, a boy of 10 or 12, lives with his grandmother in a remote area of Nicaragua. He's engulfed in the war between rebels and government troops when a US advisor orders the army to open a staging area by the boy's hamlet. Alsino tries to be a child, climbing trees with a girl, looking through his grandfather's trunk of mementos and trying to fly; he goes to town to sell a saddle, has his first drink and is taken to a brothel. But the war surrounds him. The US advisor takes Alsino on a chopper flight, but he's unimpressed. The soldiers' cruelties awake rebel sympathies in Alsino, and after an army assault backfires, the lad is fully baptized into the conflict.