José María Vitier

El Mayor (2020)

The story of Cuban revolutionary Ignacio Agramonte. ...

Che, Memórias de um Ano Secreto (2018)

In December 1965, at the height of the Cold War, Che Guevara mysteriously disappeared. Using a false identity, he is escorted by former agents of the Cuban Intelligence Service who are now revealing unprecedented details of the operation. ...

Esther en alguna parte (2013)

A widower is surprised to learn that his late wife lead a double life. ...

El Fausto Criollo (2011)

A version of El Estatola del Campo's poetic Faust of the Poet (1886) integrates the major trilogy of Argentine gaucho poetry, is proposed here in a faithful version and integral. ...

The Waiting List (2000)

At a rundown bus station in rural Cuba, the line of passengers waiting just keeps getting longer. The problem is that every bus that passes by is already full. Their only hope is to wait for the station's bus to be fixed. As the disparate group settles in, ...

Under a Spell (1999)

In the Yucatan coast of the thirties , Elisha, a boy of 13, is initiated into the art of love by Felipa , his schoolteacher. After discovering the relationship, Felipa runs away from the village , leaving Elisha mired in nostalgia. ...

Más se perdió en Cuba (1995)

Elpidio Valdés returns to the Cuban countryside to fight against the Spaniards. But they have a much more dangerous enemy: the Americans, who want to take over the island at any cost. Elpidio Valdés and his comrades-in-arms will try to prevent them from ...

The Elephant and The Bicycle (1994)

After two years in jail, El Isleño returns to the island of La Fe, ruled by the dictator Francisco Gavilán. He arrives with a cinematograph and exhibits "Robin Hood" to the people. The next day the bridge that communicates La Fe to the mainland has been ...

Strawberry and Chocolate (1993)

In 1979 Cuba, flamboyant gay artist Diego attempts to seduce straitlaced David, an idealistic young communist, and fails dismally. But David conspires to be "friends" with Diego so he can monitor the artist's subversive life for the state. As Diego and Da ...

Mafalda (1993)

Second feature film based on the famous characters of the Argentine cartoonist Joaquín Lavado, better known as Quino. ...

Dueño del tiempo (1989)

A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings (1988)

An elderly man with wings is blown off course during a tropical storm in this symbolic fantasy. The Old Man lands near a Caribbean island where a poor family gives him shelter in a chicken coop. Father Gonzaga is the skeptical priest who rushes to damn the ...

Dreams adrift (2021)

Mike Porcel is the lost member of the Cuban Nueva Trova musical movement. His lack of "revolutionary spirit" condemned him to the scorn of his peers and made him a pariah for a decade, until he managed to go into exile. Without resentment, but without forg ...

Lezama Lima: Soltar la lengua (2020)

As the author of one of the most influential novels in Latin American literature, Paradiso (1966), the Cuban José Lezama Lima is considered a major figure in his country. In this documentary, the director and writer Ernesto Fundora, carries out a study on ...

Humberto (2014)

Five years after the passing of the iconic filmmaker Humberto Solas, one of the founders of the New Latin American Cinema, partners, friends and family gather to evoke aspects of the life and work of Cuban artist of universal size. ...