Grupo de Cine Insurgente

A tribute to Santiago Álvarez, a great innovator in the language of Cuban newsreel images, presented by the ICAIC over the course of thirty years. This unique figure in Latin American cinema is reconstructed. Told as a game of Chinese boxes (documentaries within documentaries, authors within authors, images within images), Álvarez's obsession is revealed to be identical to that of his disciples: to confront the reality of Cuba with other realities, staging aesthetic operations that are nevertheless political operations, always in favor of the Revolution.

The petrochemical pole installed in Ingeniero White hand in hand with the discourse of "progress" promises that Bahía Blanca will become Argentine California. The reality is much harsher. But in this bleak panorama, the voices and bodies of the popular resistance emerge.

Through conversations with men and women practicing the Yoruba religion -better known as "Santeria" in Cuba-, the documentary narrates through a simple and direct record the phenomenon of faith and how it entered their lives.