Several films are screened each semester, each selected on the basis of international appeal and critical acclaim. The theme for spring semester is Cuba. All films are shown in English language versions. Preference is given to subtitled rather than dubbed versions of films originally produced in Spanish. Speakers introduce each film and lead brief discussions afterward.
Admission is free.
Based on all available historical records. Intertwining the stories of two groups, members of a funeral procession and some truckdrivers on the road to Havana, the film focuses on ex-economics professor Georgina, who, with her husband, bureaucrat Adolfo, tests a new funeral system with the body of Aunt Yoyita, an elderly singing star who returned to Cuba to visit an old flame and dropped dead in his arms. Tomas Gutierrez Alea. Teresa, a housewife, incurs the displeasure of her husband because of her involvement in political and cultural organizations. Perhaps the most controversial Cuban film to be released in U.S. Spanish with English subtitles.