The Embassy of The Republic Of CUBA, NEW DELHI  and INDO CINE Appreciation foundation are organizing a Cuban Film Festival in Chennai at the South Indian Film Chamber Theatre, Anna Salai. The festival is from 12th Oct to 15th Oct.

A curtain raiser for you…

Pages From Mauricio’s Diary

The film tracks the man of the title and the nation from 1988, just before the fall of the USSR and the resulting hardships of Cuba's "Special Period," and when the U.S. beats Cuba in a highly charged baseball match, through 2000, when Mauricio turns 60 and Cuba's women’s volleyball team trounces the Russians. During the game Mauricio's and the stepdaughter who had despised him forge a bond, the common denominator being their respective decisions to remain in Cuba despite the drawbacks. His daughter had fled to Sweden, her father to the States.

Madrigal

Good-looking but insecure Javier  is a wannabe writer and actor in a theater group in which . Eva  and Angel  also perform. One night, they are playing to a single audience member, overweight teen Luisita, who stands up mid-act and leaves, a move which fascinates Javier. He tracks the God-fearing, morgue-working romantic Luisita down to her apartment, where the two of them indulge in the first of several leisurely conversations. Javier reports back to Eva, who half-jokingly suggests that he should seduce and then poison Luisita, so they can have her apartment: the grim reality of contempo Cuban life is never confronted head on, but as here is referred to obliquely throughout. Instead, Javier finds himself curiously drawn to the ugly duckling Luisita, and more so when he sees Angel goosing Eva

Kangamba

With musical background by Edesio Alejandro, this film recreates with great humanism the most momentous and difficult moments of the Cuban troops in Angola and highlights the value and the resistance in a moment when they were totally isolated.  

City In Red 2008

The movie shows a day in the life of Santiago de Cuba during the final days of the Batista dictatorship.   ""Violence disrupts human nature.  Ours is  not. Our violence is accompanied by hope. It is a violence used to save us."" The dialogue is between two of the film’s characters who employ different modes of fighting for the same end: to stop the state terror that existed in Cuba at the time. As in the book, the movie explores generational differences and different ways of fighting (ideas or weapons).

Dancing Cha, Cha, Cha

The conflicts within a typical Cuban family serve as the dramatic centerpiece for this musical drama set in the 1950s and placed in the context of the birth of the Cha Cha Cha. From simple isunderstandings to accepting our differences and respecting our individuality, the family contends with a variety of universal issues while struggling through the hard times and taking comfort in each other's company.