Una foto recorre el mundo + Plácido
We have several dozen Cuban films in our archives, allowing us to document the inspiration and creativity of filmmakers who, shortly after the Cuban revolution, devoted their cameras to documenting daily life, individual questions and collective movements.
Short documentary on the famous portrait of Ernesto Guevara, known as Che Guevara, by Cuban photographer Alberto Díaz Gutiérrez.
Plácido is based on the play of the same name by playwright Gerardo Fulleda León. It is a historical film whose plot centers on slavery. The protagonist, the poet Plácido, a freedman, is the target of the law because of his alleged links with the separatist and abolitionist movement.
Sergio Giral
Sergio Giral is a Cuban filmmaker from Havana. He grew up in New York, and initially studied fine arts and documentary filmmaking. In 1962, director Nestor Almendros offered him a position at the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry (ICAIC). Sergio Giral directed a series of short films. He is particularly noted for his trilogy El otro Francisco, Rancheador and Maluala, about slavery in the Caribbean in the 19th century. Sergio Giral returned to the United States in the early 1990s. In 1995, he directed La imagen rata, a documentary dedicated to exiled filmmakers.
