Germinal Hernández Movies

A doctor committed against the revolution decides to escape in a boat. A criminal friend introduced him to a modest revolutionary family to cover it...

The film is based on the historical event known as the Protest of Baraguá.

About a mysterious and troubled black woman, a former practitioner of the Santería religion, who must comes to terms with her background...

An approach to a living myth of dance, Alicia Alonso, from the viewpoint of her passion, tenacity and devotion to art. It includes fragments of the...

An illustration of the difficulties women encounter when they seek to achieve economic integration and equality with men in a country at the height...

Documentary about the history of the bateyes, informal settlements surrounding the mills to house workers. Throughout the film, Sara Gómez...

Born in 1943, Sara Gómez studied literature, piano, and Afro-Cuban ethnography before becoming the first female Cuban filmmaker. A woman of...

Prenatal care and the advice for pregnant woman to enable a safe and healthy birth.

Childcare centers and their importance in child development.

In the aftermath of the Bay of Pigs incident, Sergio chooses to stay behind in Cuba while his wife and family escape to neighboring Miami. Alone in a...

Performance by Cuban singers Elena Burke, Moraima Secada, and Omara Portuondo performing popular songs from the 1960s.

A short poetic evocation by Sara Gómez of Isla de Pinos, the island where Fidel Castro was imprisoned by Batista, where the revolution builds...

Matanzas, Cuba, 1913. Two young people who are in love communicate through letters written by penman. When the young man leaves town, to become a...

A pious plantation owner attempts to teach Christianity to 12 of his slaves by inviting them to participate in a reenactment of the Last Supper.

A left-wing intellectual, faced with the imminence of his arrest during the coup d'état against President Joao Goulart, lives anguished...

Loose collection of individual portraits of the inhabitants of the Isle of Pinos (now Isla de la Juventud), who tell their stories, share ideas and...

In this film, Sara Gómez documents the everyday life of the Isla de Pinos, the discussions about the problems of construction, the school and...

Legendary rumba musician Alberto Zayas serves as a guide for this vibrant journey through Cuban musical history and culture. The short features...

Alsino, a boy of 10 or 12, lives with his grandmother in a remote area of Nicaragua. He's engulfed in the war between rebels and government troops...

A bourgeois Cuban family of aristocratic origin locks itself into its mansion when the Cuban Revolution comes to power, waiting for the new regime to...