Berlinale returns to Cuba after almost two decades. The miracle that has allowed this barely goes over an hour of filming. It’s called “The Swimming Pool”, and it was born one afternoon a couple of years ago when it’s writer, Abel Arcos, was watching a newscast on TV. Liomán […]
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A look at the Colombian conflict
An event will bring together different experts and academics in Sussex to analyse and debate the process of gaining peace which is currently being brought about between The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia and the Colombian government. According to the latest declarations made by Iván Marquéz, spokesman of the […]
Ahmed Dickinson and his desire to “eat up” the city
After eight years in London his name resounds in the music scene. Ahmed was born in 1978 surrounded by bewitching Cuban rhythms and with the gift of being able to interpret and pass on melodies by composers born under the Caribbean sun. Olga Briasco By the age of […]
Cuba in the 1950s
El Premio Flaco [The Thin Prize] is being screened as part of the Cuba Cinema series organised by Cuba Solidarity Campaign. Based on the play of the same name, by Héctor Quintero, the film by Juan Carlos Cremata recounts the story of Iluminada, a woman who is living in a […]
When fatigue is visual
Known as asthenopia in medical language (from the Greek sthenos meaning strength and ops meaning eyes) more commonly known as eye strain is an alteration which at present millions of people in the world suffer from. José A. de la Osa Described by Dr. Julio a. Uría González as “a […]