NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore is screening Mikhail Kalatozov's I am Cuba (Soy Cuba), 1964. The film is one of the selected films from the programme Third Way / After Bandung – curated by Mark Nash and Vladimir Seput – which was originally intended to be screened on-site in parallel with the exhibition Non-Aligned. The latest film is a masterpiece by Mikhail Kalatozov, a prominent film director who largely contributed to both Georgian and Russian cinema.
I am Cuba (Soy Cuba) is available to be streamed from June 12 to 17. The film follows four short stories outlining the sufferings of Cubans during the Cuban Revolution. The story surrounds four protagonists: Maria, a young woman who works at a Havana nightclub catering to rich Americans who is forced to sleep with tourists for money; Pedro, a tenant farmer whose sugarcane fields are taken from him after the landowner decides to sell the plot to an American company; Enrique, a young revolutionary and university student who is part of the intellectual resistance; and Mariano, a peasant who is moved to take up arms and join the rebel army after a government bomb kills his son. Pulling the story together is narrator Raquel Revuelta.
The film can be viewed on ntu.ccasingapore.org from midnight on June 12 to 23:59 on June 17. You'll have to register here to receive the password to view the film. Registered participants will receive an email reminder with the viewing link and password one to two days before the screening. The film can be viewed here from midnight on June 12 to 23:59 on June 17.