By Pedro Manuel González Reinoso/Cubanet SANTA CLARA.— Lázaro Jesús González (b. 1990) has been living in Miami for two years. He graduated with a degree in Journalism from the University of Havana’s School of Communication in 2014, and subsequently attended several creative workshops at the International Film and Television School in San Antonio de los Baños. For his undergraduate thesis, he proposed Máscaras (Masks), a two-person documentary exploring the art of drag in Cub

The history of queer identity is, by nature, an exercise in navigating silence. It is a narrative frequently fragmented by systemic censorship, social stigma, and marginalization. On a personal level, it is often tucked away in the privacy of hidden affections, fractured family ties, and the heavy burden of unshared experiences. But what happens when filmmakers decide to look directly into that silence and reclaim the past? That was the core question behind the event, "Archiv

(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