Really interesting documentary about the Cuban government’s push for tackling climate change. They formed Tarea Vida, or Life Task, as a strategic plan for dealing with climate change in both the short and long term in 2017. Unlike in most places where the populace is desperately crying out for their government to do something, Cuba’s…
Really interesting collection of shorts from Cuba Platform and Claudia Claremi’s The Woodland. The Woodland is this really beautiful short film, showing a grandpa out walking with his young granddaughter in the woods of Cuba. He encourages her curiosity and engagement with the forest, its trees, shrubs and plants. She plays with the ferns that…
Fifth List is a documentary about fishing regulation in Cuba. No, wait, stay! I promise this film about fishing regulations is interesting! Cuba has a pretty unique economic system in the modern world, for obvious historical reasons. Being so different from the one I’ve grown up with in Scotland, it can seem a bit mystifying.…
Cuba: Living Between Hurricanes proves you don’t need a high budget to produce an informative documentary. Just point and shoot and tell your story. The film focuses on Caibarien, a port along the coast of Cuba, telling through this one location, the history of climate change in Cuba. It is a disaster intrinsically linked to…
I need to stop greeting at these films. Sacha: A Child Of Chernobyl is a short documentary following up with the children who were taken to Cuba for medical treatment after exposure to radiation following the Chernobyl disaster. When Chernobyl exploded, becoming history’s greatest radiation disaster, the resultant fallout produced illnesses and cancers of all…
Day of the Flowers is about two Scottish sisters travelling to Cuba to scatter their estranged dad’s ashes. Rosa is a crunchy activist, who has taken all the idealism of her father’s early years, romanticising his time spent doing solidarity work in Cuba when her parents were first married. Ailie is a stylish good-time girl,…