Cuba
It’s a Swedish documentary about the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base by Erik Gandini and Tarik Saleh. Features interviews with Janis Karpinski, Mehdi Ghezali and Geoffrey Miller (MG), among others. Gitmo premiered at IDFA in 2005, and reached mainstream theaters in Sweden on February 10, 2006. In 2003, a year after Swedish citizen Mehdi Ghezali was detained at
Wim Wenders’ documentary Buena Vista Social Club is about the adventures of Ry Cooder in Cuba. Cooder, best remembered by film fans for the wailing slide guitar theme of Wenders’ Paris, Texas, went to Cuba in 1996 to meet with some legendary ’soneros’ musicians of the ’30s, ’40s and ’50s. The result was the album Buena Vista Social Club, recorded with such colorful
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