(Courtesy of the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive) Conversation between Lázaro J. González and Nils Longueira Borrero, after the first selection of short films from "Cuban Cinema without Borders", in the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, on October 26, 2024. As González highlighted in the curatorial note, this first selection of Cuban contemporary short films offers a profound exploration of Cuba’s culture of resistance. Among the films screened that

Cuba is currently facing its worst economic crisis in modern history. Frequent and severe power outages, including a total blackout this week, along with shortages of food, water, and medicine, and increased political repression, have forced many Cubans to seek a future beyond national borders. These challenges, which intensified after the historic protests on July 11, 2021, have made life on the island increasingly untenable, leading to the largest exodus in its history. Sin