Patria O Muerte: Cuba, Fatherland or Death

Olatz López Garmendia
Part of

54th New York Film Festival

September 30 - 11, 2016

Olatz López Garmendia’s film is a sharp, vivid portrait of Cuba as it is right now, on the verge of change, seen through the eyes of citizens who are struggling to live freely.

DIRECTOR
Olatz López Garmendia
YEAR
2016
COUNTRY
Cuba / USA
RUNTIME
57 minutes
LANGUAGE
In English and Spanish with English subtitles

Olatz López Garmendia’s film is a sharp, vivid portrait of Cuba as it is right now, on the verge of change, seen through the eyes of a diverse group of brave individuals. On the one hand, we experience the corroded beauty of a landscape largely free of the commercially driven zoning and building that has befouled so much of the western world; on the other, we see the crumbling infrastructure, falling buildings, and desperate circumstances of a nation that’s been economically stalled by a longtime United States embargo and a stubborn and repressive dictatorship. Most of all, Patria O Muerte: Cuba, Fatherland or Death is about people struggling to live freely. An HBO Documentary Films release.

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