Cuban Cinema Film Catalog

What does this Cuban cinema film catalog offer?

Objectives of the catalog

This Cuban cinema film catalog brings together an organized selection of films that allow viewers to explore different historical, aesthetic, and cultural stages of Cuban audiovisual production. Its main objective is to offer a clear, accessible, and contextualized overview of Cuban cinema, helping readers understand how each film reflects social tensions, political transformations, collective imaginaries, and distinctive ways of narrating reality.

Through complete film entries and complementary analysis, the catalog aims to guide readers through the diversity of Cuban cinema, showing how films articulate visual, linguistic, and cultural discourses. This approach makes it possible to identify recurring themes—such as identity, memory, critical humor, inequality, bureaucracy, and resistance—and to understand how each work engages with its historical moment and with broader processes in Cuban society.

This Cuban film catalog seeks to serve as a bridge between academic research, the teaching of Spanish, and the enjoyment of Cuban cinema, offering a resource that combines rigorous information with a pedagogical and cultural perspective. By linking Cuban film analysis with language learning, the catalog also supports the exploration of Spanish language through film.

Selection and classification criteria

How is the catalog organized?

The Cuban cinema film catalog is organized according to thematic, stylistic, and historical-cultural criteria that allow readers to explore the diversity of Cuban cinema from multiple perspectives. Films are grouped by considering their core thematic axes, their production context, and the aesthetic and discursive strategies they use to represent the reality of the island.

Among the main criteria used for the overall organization of the Cuban film catalog are:

historical context and key stages of Cuban cinema
central themes such as identity, memory, political criticism, and everyday life
genres and aesthetic approaches
representations of gender and the body
linguistic varieties of Cuban Spanish
the use of cinematic resources to construct meaning

These categories help guide the reading of the catalog and make it easier for readers to identify connections, contrasts, and continuities between different films. Rather than imposing a rigid classification of Cuban cinema, the organization aims to offer an accessible and contextualized journey that shows how each film articulates aesthetic, cultural, and social discourses specific to its historical moment.

Cultural and educational relevance of the catalog

Learning, culture, and comparative analysis

The catalog functions as a tool for exploring Cuban cinema from an educational, cultural, and analytical perspective. Its use encourages the development of critical thinking and the understanding of social and historical phenomena, while also allowing learners to work with Cuban Spanish through a communicative and sociolinguistic approach.

Thanks to its thematic organization and the contextualization of each film entry, the Cuban cinema film catalog facilitates comparisons between films, historical periods, and aesthetic styles, helping to identify continuities, ruptures, and transformations within Cuban audiovisual production.

This section brings together film analyses, technical data sheets, and examples that dialogue with the episodes of the Cuban Cinema Out Loud podcast, creating a learning space that integrates language, culture, and film from an interpretive and contemporary perspective.

Mujer transparente

Mujer transparente

Director: Héctor Veitía/Mayra Segura/Mayra Vilasís/Mario Crespo/Ana Rodríguez

Year: 1990

Running time: 82 min

Where to watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNchyI2hITg

Discourse analysis:
https://amaelespanol.com/mujer-transparente-analisis-discursivo/

Linguistic analysis:
https://amaelespanol.com/analisis-linguistico-de-mujer-transparente/

Podcast:
https://youtu.be/T-JqsqBmxD4