Suite Tortilla #59: The Celluloid Women

An American lesbian in Cuba explores gender through dance and film, blending personal experiences and cultural symbols with music and Revolutionary cinema and questions how lesbians fit into Cuban cinema.

Cast

Eliseo Altunaga

as Self (Voice)

Fidel Castro

as Self (Voice)

Sergio Corrieri

as Self (Voice)

Adriana Fernández Castellanos

as Self (Voice)

Amiel Williams

as Narrator / Self (Voice)

Claudia Terry

as Self (Voice)

Eslinda Núñez

as Self

Adela Legrá

as Self

Daisy Granados

as Self

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