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MUJERES DE FUEGO: LAS RUMBERAS DEL CINE DE ORO

Wednesday, February 6, 2019 at 7 pm

                        A unique presentation on Mexico’s cine de rumberas, a cinematic tour de force that turned the rumba, the popular Cuban dance, into veritable melodrama, and launched the careers of statuesque bombshells Ninón Sevilla, María Antonieta Pons, and Amalia Aguilar, Cuban dancers whom the press referred to as “The […]

CINE FOCUS: ‘EN UN RINCÓN DEL ALMA’

Wednesday, February 27, 2019 at 7 pm

An exclusive one-night-only screening of Jorge Dalton’s En un rincón del alma, an exceptional documentary that registers the moving testimonial of the Cuban novelist, journalist and screenwriter Eliseo Alberto, who died on July 31, 2011 in Mexico City, where he had lived since 1990. The film traces the Cuban Revolution since its inception through the memory of […]

LPEN’S CU CINE FILM FESTIVAL

Saturday, March 2, 2019 ~ 2:30 pm to 9 pm

CCCNY is proud to co-sponsor LPEN’s CU CINE FILM FESTIVAL, a one-day screening of films on the most pertinent topics on Latin America and the Latinx experience, featuring two riveting full-length films: Kim Hopkins‘s heartrending documentary on Cuba, Voices of the Sea (BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND this season), and Ciro Guerra‘s mesmerizing masterpiece, The Embrace […]

CAMBIO CONSTITUCIONAL EN CUBA

Monday, March 4, 2019 at 7 pm

A presentation by the distinguished Cuban historian Rafael Rojas, at the New York City launching of his latest book, El cambio constitucional en Cuba, a compilation of essays about Constitutional changes on the Island from a multidisciplinary perspective. Alongside texts by other authors, the volume offers a tour of Cuban Constitutional history, from the founding text of Hispanic […]

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