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SONS OF CUBA - 2-DVD available individually here
Hailed by critics, Andrew Lang's powerful and moving documentary Sons of Cuba is a stunning insight behind the scenes of Castro's Cuba into the lives of a group of young boys; amateur boxers training to become champions of their sport and heroes of their country
Laced with emotion, Sons of Cuba is at once intimate, personal and political. It goes deep into the heart and mind of modern Cuba, while documenting, from the inside, a country at a moment of historic change. Sons of Cuba will leave audiences riveted as they both sympathise with the boys’ plight and cheer them on to potential victory…
50 YEARS OF THE CUBAN REVOLUTION - 4-DVD available individually here
Mikhail Kalatozov - I Am Cuba
Humberto Solas - Lucia
Tomás Gutiérrez Alea - Memories Of Underdevelopment
Tomás Gutiérrez Alea - Strawberry & Chocolate
Modern Cuban cinema – borne out of a revolution that took place 50 years ago – is celebrating its golden jubilee this year. To mark the occasion, we are releasing a box set of landmark films from this iconic and turbulent nation.
Shocking, moving, and above all groundbreaking, these four films are the work of esteemed directors, Humberto Solas, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea and Mikhail Kalatzov and tell outsiders what it means to be Cuban, past, present and future.
Mikhail Kalatozov - I Am Cuba
Presented by Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola
“Beautiful... Visually dazzling... Miraculous... I am baffled as to why it isn’t in everyone’s Top 10 lists” Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
Humberto Solas - Lucia
Depicts three different periods of Cuban history through telling the stories of three women, each called Lucia.
“The finest film to come out of Cuba in the ‘60s” Time Out
Tomás Gutiérrez Alea - Memories Of Underdevelopment
“A landmark” The Guardian
Tomás Gutiérrez Alea - Strawberry & Chocolate
The first Cuban film ever to receive an Academy Award nomination
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