US Premiere!
Among the achievements of the Cuban revolution none is known as far and wide as its healthcare system, not only domestically but internationally. Doctors and paramedics from Cuba, who serve in more than seventy countries, are for many in the Third World their only life-line. Produced for Cuban television, Centeno’s riveting and poignant documentary presents the experiences of about a dozen Cuban medical personnel serving in Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Burkina Faso, Mali, Botswana and Namibia. Whatever the politics that viewers bring to this film they’re likely to be touched by the sheer humanity of the Cuban practitioners in some of the most remote regions of the world.

Guillermo Centeno was born in Havana in 1945. Following an undergraduate degree in History, Centeno became a cinematographer and director of photography of more than 80 documentaries. After 1984 he directed and wrote documentaries as well as teaching at Cuba’s famed International School of Cinema and TV at San Antonio de los Baños. He is the recipient of many national and international prizes.

Producer: Francisco Alvarez Screenwriter: Guillermo Centeno Cinematographers: Rafael Solis, Yamil Santana, Oscar Valdés Editor: Ricardo Miranda Music: Leo Brouwer, Sergio Vitier

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