Film Guides
The UNC-Duke Consortium has created the film guides below to facilitate educators' incorporation of Latin American and Caribbean films into their lessons. Click on the title of the film for the complete film guide.
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Alsino y el Condor
This film rewrites the Nicaraguan folktale of the boy who wanted to fly as the story of a boy living through the brutality of Somoza’s war on the Nicaraguan people and the corresponding rise of the Sandinistas.
La Boca del Lobo
La Boca Del Lobo graphically depicts the violent struggle between the Peruvian military and the Shining Path guerrillas, focusing on the peasants that are caught in the middle of abuse from both sides.
Cinco de Mayo
This film is aimed at the North American secondary school audience. It effectively explains the historical context of the two most celebrated days in the modern Mexican calendar: 16th of September (Independence Day) and the 5th of May.
Couple in the Cage
This film documents the traveling performance of Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Coco Fusco, in which they exhibit themselves as caged Amerindians from an imaginary island, providing a vivid and provocative interpretation of cultural encounters.
Cuatro Mujeres, Cuatro Autores
Pablo Milanés and Silvio Rodríguez, two well-known representatives of the Latin American nueva trova (“new song movement”), interpret songs about women written by themselves or other Cuban composers (including Sindo Garay, author of “Perla Marina” and Manuel Corona, author of “Santa Cecilia”).
Cuba Va: El Retro de la Nueva Generación
This documentary takes a critical look at Cuba’s social and economic situations today, through the eyes of its youth.
De Cierta Manera
A revolutionary love story combining elements of fiction and documentary, this film examines the roots of machismo and the changing relationships between women and men in early 1960s Cuba.
Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol
This is a story of the social movement growing out f the poverty and misery of the dry back lands in northeast Brazil. It is a dark and allegorical sketch of the human condition in the drought- and tradition- ravaged region.
Un Hombre de Éxito
This is the story of two upper-class brothers, Javier and Darío, who participate in the struggle to overthrow Machado during his dictatorship in the 1930s.
Lejania
A Cuban woman who went into exile in the US returns to Cuba after many years to see the son she left behind. She comes back with suitcases filled with clothes and appliances.
Lucia
Lucía is an anthology film, three separate stories related by the common theme of women in revolution.
La Negra Angustias
This Mexican classic, by the pioneering director Matilde S. Landeta and adapted from the novel by Francisco Rojas Gonzales, is based on the like of a mulatto woman who served as a colonel under Emiliano Zapata during the revolution of 1910-1916.
Orfeu Negro
Based on a major work of Brazilian literature, Orfeu da conceição by Vinicius de Morales, this film is a classic of Brazilian cinema in the 1950s and an example of internationalist interest in Brazil.
Oriana
Based on a story by Marvel Moreno, Oriana is an exploration of memory, time, and desire initiated when Marie returns to the family hacienda where she spent time as an adolescent.
Vídeo Nas Aldeias
This tape provides an overview of the “Video in the Villages” project organized by the Centro de Trabalho Indigenista in which different Amazonian Indian tribes have been given video equipment and training.
