Mario Balmaseda Movies

A pious plantation owner attempts to teach Christianity to 12 of his slaves by inviting them to participate in a reenactment of the Last Supper.

A story of survival and triumph of the human spirit.

In Miraflores, Cuba, the growing romance between Mario, a factory worker, and Yolanda, a schoolteacher, throws into relief the differences in their...

Struggling with the breakdown of a relationship, Leo moves back to a dilapidated 'city of tomorrow' to live with his belligerent grandfather and his...

Cheo visits his friend, Manolo, who he hasn't seen for many years. They drink to celebrate their reunion and fondly recall the times they spent...

Based on a real event, the action takes place in Havana in 1931, during the dictatorship of Gerardo Machado. Rachel, a young French showgirl, is...

Gloria, Yolanda's mother, exchanges their old house in Guanabacoa for a modern apartment in Vedado to keep Yolanda away from her boyfriend, but her...

A documentary about a class struggle in the Escambray mountain range in Cuba.

1964, in the Escambray mountains: the area is infested with counter- revolutionary bands which are trying to spread terror among the population and...

The film is based on the historical event known as the Protest of Baraguá.

Born in 1943, Sara Gómez studied literature, piano, and Afro-Cuban ethnography before becoming the first female Cuban filmmaker. A woman of...

Luis, a sterility physician, is in love with a young colleague and faces the dilemma of breaking his marriage or accepting the tranquility and...

This Cuban feature examines the circumstances arising out of a woman's claim to have seen the Virgin Mary and to have been healed by waters from a...

By director Manuel Octavio Gómez

Rebuild, in the same place of events, a trial held in 1969 to four men, accused of sabotage for having caused the fire of a forest plan that caused...

In the Cuba of these times, where everyone sells something, the young Nácar wants to sell her only property, the family vault.