Rubén Blades Movies

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...

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.

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

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...

'Salsa' captures a unique moment in time for this most exuberant and socially dynamic music.

The stories of a Panamanian officer who feels betrayed by his superiors, of a young man from the neighborhood trying to prevent his friends from...

Short film directed by Marina Levikova and Yuri Neyman.

Tanit, Valeria and Shaila are three women from very different parts of the world who face the same problem: climate change. They will lose everything...

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,...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

Emotionally battered by the paternal relationship with her husband, Eva is a young immigrant photographer, a misfit who strives to find the perfect...