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  • Cuban Film

Sara Gómez: Cuba’s first female film director

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 07/03/202208/03/2022

Sara Gómez, was the first Cuban female film director of the Cuban cinema Institute (ICAIC)…

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  • Cuban Film

Titón the filmmaker: Tomás Gutiérrez Alea

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 18/04/202130/04/2021

From CubaCine on the 25th anniversary (16 April 2021) of the death of Cuban film…

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  • Cuban Film

Juan Carlos Tabío and the perfection he leaves us

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 28/02/202127/04/2021

For Tabío it was important for viewers to not only have fun and laugh, but…

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  • Cuban Theatre

Fátima Patterson – theatre actor, director and playwright

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 06/02/202107/02/2021

When talking about theatre in Cuba and the African influence on the Cuban stage, we…

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  • Cuban Music

Benny Moré – a hero for all Cubans

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 21/08/201904/08/2020

On an August day in 1919, 100 years ago, in the small town of Santa…

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  • Cuban Music

Juan Formell’s musical legacy and 50 Years of Los Van Van

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 25/07/201904/08/2020

Los Van Van is Cuba’s most famous dance music orchestra formed on December 4, 1969…

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  • Cuban Film

ICAIC: sixty years of industry and art in Cuban film

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 30/03/201904/08/2020

This year, in 2019 Cuba is celebrating 60 years of ICAIC, the institute for the…

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  • Cuban Music

Changüí is declared cultural heritage of the Cuban nation

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 21/12/201804/08/2020

Changüí, an ancient Cuban musical rhythm considered to be the first beginnings of the son,…

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  • Cuban Music

Chucho Valdés looks back at 45 years of Irakere

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 23/04/201804/08/2020

Interview and report by: La Jiribilla, Cuba/ cubadebate Irakere celebrates 45 years of music this…

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