The Films of Santiago Alvarez, Ranked

“I began to study medicine, I studied for two years but I left it because my family couldn’t afford it. It was a big setback to me because I had high hopes to specialize in children’s illnesses. I left for the United States, like many did back then in order to look for new opportunities. My stay in the United States was an important lesson, an important experience in life on what the United States really meant to me, to the Cuban people, and to the American people. It was there that I witnessed the discrimination against blacks. I gathered a lot of stories to tell, which I later translated into what would one day become...