Directed by Mikhail Kalatozov

Starring Sergio Corrieri, Salvador Wood, José Gallardo, Jean Bouise, Luz María Collazo

Each month ShowNews presents a film at Academy Cinemas picked by a special film industry guest. For June, it is a 60th anniversary screening of the visually groundbreaking revolutionary triumph, I AM CUBA!

Both a landmark of radical political cinema and one of the most visually ravishing films ever made, this legendary hymn to revolution shimmers across the screen like a fever dream of rebellion. The result of an extraordinarily ambitious collaboration between the Soviet and Cuban film industries, director Mikhail Kalatozov’s I AM CUBA unfolds in four explosive vignettes that capture Cuban life on the brink of transformation, as crushing economic exploitation and inequality give way to a working-class uprising. Backed by Carlos Fariñas’s stirring score, the dazzling camera work by Sergei Urusevsky—an inspiration for generations of filmmakers to follow—gives flight to the movie’s message of liberation.

Tickets only $10!
Happy Hour drinks from 7pm.
Screening 8:30pm.