Santiago Álvarez Filmes

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...

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

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...

Through the files of Cuban cinema news program Noticieros ICAIC Latinoamericanos, the documentary shows the most relevant events of the second half...

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

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....

Short documentary about Cuba's resistance to American invasion.

Documentary short about the death of Chilean general René Schneider by the CIA, following the election of Salvador Allende as president of the...

Alvarez' longest documentary examination of the Cuban Revolution, this contains exceptional interviews with Fidel, Raúl, Almeida, Vilma,...

Political propaganda film made during the Spanish Civil War.

The short film El primer delegado (The First Delegate), made by a group of ICAIC directors, recounts the moments in which José Martí...

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

A portrait of the great radical Cuban film maker Santiago Alvarez.

Short film by Santiago Alvarez