Cuba: Over Titon’s steps. Tribute to Tomás Gutiérrez Alea

Screenings carried out in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Cuba, the Embassy of the Republic of Cuba in Mexico and the Cuban Institute of Art and Cinematographic Industry.

Memories of underdevelopment 

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea | Cuba | 1968 | 95 min | A 

Monday, october 25, 19h  

Alea's Magnum opus; this award-winning film was recognized by Edmundo Desnoes (author of the novel on which it is based) as a sublime example of film adaptation. The complex plot narrates the path of a bourgeois man gradually accepting the revolution and its consequences.

Death of a beurocrat

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea | Cuba | 1966 | 85 min | B 

Tuesday, october 26, 19h

Uncle Paco  operates a complex machine of his own invention capable of mass producing  José Martí’s busts, which ended up killing him. Juanchín, his nephew Will be the direct bureaucracy’s victim in the moment he looks up for his uncle’s work id, which was buried with him and without with he won’t be able to claim his pension for the widow.

The twelve chairs

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea | Cuba | 1962 | 97 min | B 

Wednesday, october 27

The aristocrat Hipolito and his chauffeur are looking for a chair, from a set of twelve, where his mother-in-law suspiciously hid some diamonds. The investigation will lead them to different situations, as each chair has been auctioned to different people. They do not know that the village priest also knows of their existence and is looking for them.

Till certain point

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea | Cuba | 1983 | 88 min. | A 

Thursday, october 28

This topical feature film presents a film scriptwriter and a dock worker. Characters that converge in different shades of what love really is. It won the Grand Coral Award at the International Festival of New Latin American Cinema. 

The last dinner

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea | Cuba | 1976 | 120 min | B15 

Friday, october 29

This controversial film is set in an 18th century plantation, where religious symbolism is used by a count to explain to his slaves why it is necessary to treat them harshly, trying to give them a humble and devout meaning to their lives, without taking into account the vagaries of fate.

Maximum capacity 60 people.