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  1. Yuli: The Carlos Acosta Story (2018)

    Director
    Iciar Bollain
    Subject
    Dance
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 115 minutes)

    Yuli is based on Acosta’s autobiography ‘No Way Home, A Cuban Dancer’s Story’. It is his own story about growing up in Cuba, becoming a dancer, moving to London and his relationship with his father,...

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  2. Between Memories (2015)

    Director
    Martha-Cecilia Dietrich
    Subject
    Anthropology; History
    Distribution
    Sale Hire, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 34 minutes), £15.00

    Eudosia is still searching for her husband’s remains in the highlands of Ayacucho; Lucero has been in prison for 25 years now for the crime of terrorism against the Peruvian state; since 2009 the commandos...

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  3. Dead when I Got There (2015)

    Director
    Mark Aitken
    Subject
    Psychiatry
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 72 minutes), £12.99

    Documentary film about an asylum in Mexico, run by and for its inmates. The two disc edtion of the film features a number of extras: Antes Muerte - 48 mins; Interviews with patients - 16 mins; Running...

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  4. Nostalgia for the Light (2012)

    Director
    Patricio Guzman
    Subject
    Archaeology; Astronomy; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 107 mins.), £9.99

    A documentary drama by Patricio Guzman on the high altitude desert in Chile called Atacama. Atacama is highly significant to archaeologists for preserving the oldest known mummies in the world, and for being...

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  5. Crossing the American Crises: From Collapse to Action (2011)

    Director
    Silvia Leindecker
    Producer
    Michael Fox
    Subject
    Economics; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 82 minutes), $19.95

    On September 15, 2008, the United States fell into the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. The same day, the filmmakers set out on a trip around the country to ask the American people what...

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  6. Alicia Alonzo: Orbit of a Legend (2010 Video)

    Director
    José Ramón Neyra
    Subject
    Dance

    Film about the life and career of Alicia Alonso from childhood to her 90th birthday celebration in 2010, interspersed with performance footage and photographs. The extracts from dances include ‘Shakespeare...

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  7. Che Guevara As You Have Never Seen Him Before (2007)

    Director
    Manuel Parades
    Subject
    Politics & government; Spanish studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £14.99

    October 9th 1967. La Higuera, Bolivia. Shots ring out and a man dies. A man, but not the ideals and principles he stood for. The execution ensured that Ernesto "Che" Guevara de la Serna became, and remains,...

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  8. I Am Cuba (Soy Cuba) / Siberian Mammoth (2007)

    aka: Soy Cuba

    Director
    Mikhail Kalatozov; Vicente Farraz
    Subject
    Film studies; Politics & government; Spanish studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0, 230 minutes), £8.99

    A 2-disc set. Disc 1 : I AM CUBA, partially written by renowned poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, captures the island just before it made the transition to a post-revolutionary society. Moving from city to country...

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  9. Fermat’s Room (2007)

    Director
    Luis Piedrahita; Rodrigo Sopena
    Subject
    Mathematics
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 92 minutes), £7.95

    Summoned to a remote warehouse by the enigmatic Fermat, four mathematicians are tasked with solving highly complex numerical riddles. Correct solutions will slow down the process by which the walls, operated...

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  10. With Our Memory on the Future (2006)

    Subject
    Social Studies; Women’s studies
    Distribution
    DVD (Region 2 PAL, 63 minutes), £13.00

    This documentary was produced by the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC) on the 45th anniversary of its founding. The film examines the progress that Cuban women have made since 1959. Through interviews on the...

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