Viva Cuba
(DVD)

Originally released as a motion picture in 2006.

Special features: biography of director, Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti; This month's short film: Cousin / director, Adam Elliot (Australia, animated, 4 min.).

Director of photography, Alejandro Pérez Gómez ; editor, Angélica Salvador Alonso ; music, Amaury Ramírez Malberti and Slim Pezin ; production designer, Guillermo Ramírez Malberti.

Malú Tarrau Broche, Jorgito Miló Ávila, Larisa Vega Alamar, Luisa María Jiménez Rodríguez, Sara Cabrera Mena.

In a tale akin to "Romeo and Juliet," the friendship between two children is threatened by their parents' differences. Malú is from an upper-class family and her single mother does not want her to play with Jorgito, as she thinks his background coarse and commonplace. Jorgito's mother is a poor socialist who is proud of her family's social standing, and places similar restrictions on her son. What neither woman recognizes is the immense strength of the bond between Malú and Jorgito. When the children learn that Malú's mother is planning to leave Cuba, they decide to travel to the other side of the island to find Malú's father and persuade him against signing the forms that would allow it.

DVD format, region 1; widescreen presentation; Dolby Digital 2.0 surround, NTSC.

Includes public performance rights.,MnManS

In Spanish with optional English subtitles; closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.

Cannes Film Festival winner.