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. He gave a video interview to Cuban journalist Wendy Lazacano.https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zcNXjfmVVoI

Filmography

* La respuesta del pueblo (1976), short documentary *En el tiempo preciso (1977), short documentary *Festival Nacional de la Juventud y los Estudiantes (1977), short documentary * Momentos del Cardín (1977), short documentary * Medellín min78 (1978), short documentary * 45 días (1978), short documentary *1979: Encuentro en Cozumel, short documentary *1979: Redonda y viene en caja cuadrada, short documentary *1979: Panamá quererte, short documentary *1980: Quincho Barrilete, short documentary *1981: Controversia, short documentary *1981: No van lejos los de alante... si los de atrás corren bien, short documentary *1981: Tu gigantesco paso de millones, short docukentary *1982: Del uno al diez, short documentary *1982: Para gusto se han hecho los colores, documentary short *1984: Los pájaros tirándole a la escopeta *1985: En tres y dos *1987: Emilio Varela vs. Camelia la Texana, documentary *1989: La vida en rosa *1993: El largo viaje de Rústico, documentary *1995: Melodrama *''If You Only Understood'' (Si me comprendieras) (1998) *''Closeness'' (Cercanía) (2004) *2007: La vida según Ofelia with Saida Santana and

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*2007: Actrices, actores, exilio (documentary) *2010: Puzzle *2013: Los caminos de Aissa (docudrama) * ''Dossier of the Absences'' or ''The Lost Children'' "Dossier de ausencias” República Dominicana, docudrama (2021) *'Una elefanta sobre la tela de una araña'' (2022)

References

1947 births Living people Cuban film directors Cuban screenwriters Cuban male screenwriters Spanish film directors {{cuba-bio-stub