Rubén Blades Movies

Robert Mugge's 1986 film provides a full-blooded portrait of the Latino singer, actor, bandleader, and composer. Blades' Panama homeland, his Harvard...

A documentary on the war between the Guatemalan military and the Mayan population, with first hand accounts by Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta...

The illusion and joy of Christmas arrives from the four cardinal points of Latin America. The film recreates a typical Christmas party with Puerto...

Short film directed by Marina Levikova and Yuri Neyman.

The music of the Puerto Rican composer Pedro Flores which was televised on Dec. 8, 1996.

Salsa singer screws over everybody on his way to the top; when his latest record flops, his career starts doing downhill.

A rural Argentine music teacher and his students fight harmful agrochemical spraying by writing protest songs and staging a large...

Filmed just months after the 1989 U.S. invasion of Panama, the film offers a critical perspective on the events and documents the subsequent actions...

A San Francisco spoken word artist returns to New Mexico to be with his dying father, only to find he loses his "voice" as he is sucked back in to...

Celebrated actor, political activist, songwriter, and multiple Grammy Award winning performer Rubén Blades returned to the stage with the live...

Documents the life and musical production of Puerto Rican music composer, Tite Curet Alonso. Includes Tite Curet's last interview before his death.

More than a genre, salsa was a cultural movement that arose in a time of need for strengthening the Latino culture and spread across the world with...

Homage to Puerto Rican composer Catalino Curet Alonso, or as his friends and fans call him, "Tite", representing how widely influential the composer...

An unhappily married cleaning woman in the slums of Rio entices all the money and gifts she can out of an elderly widower.

A testimony about Afro-Cuban popular music from its origins to the present day.

INVASION is a documentary about the collective memory of a country. The invasion of Panama by the U.S in 1989 serves as an excuse to explore how a...

12-year-old Dante Delgado and his fictional soccer team take an adventurous roller coaster ride to the World Cup of Youth Soccer in Rio de Janeiro.

La Salsa Vive is a vibrant cinematic exploration of Afro-Cuban music's history, tracing its roots from New York's lively streets to Cali, Colombia,...

In the city of gold as they call it, Palenque, Jean, Rose and Machete find themselves immersed in a marginal world trying to survive with the...

Celebrated actor, political activist, songwriter, and multiple Grammy Award winning performer Rubén Blades returned to the stage with the live...