About the Film
SOSCuba follows a generation of Cuban artists who were pushed from the margins of culture into the center of a national reckoning. What began as independent art, music, poetry, and performance became a movement against censorship, intimidation, imprisonment, and exile.
Through firsthand voices from the San Isidro Movement and the artists connected to Patria y Vida, the film traces how creative resistance helped awaken a country, expose the machinery of fear, and prove that art can become a force powerful enough to shake a regime.
Before they were called dissidents, they were artists. Writers, painters, rappers, poets, curators, and performers creating outside the official institutions of Cuban culture.
But in a country where independent expression is treated as a threat, art quickly became political. The film follows the rise of the San Isidro Movement, the fight against Decree 349, the hunger strikes, the arrests, the 27N protest, the explosion of Patria y Vida, and the July 11 demonstrations that changed Cuba forever.
At its heart, SOSCuba is a story about fear, memory, and freedom. It is about those who refused to be silenced, even when the cost was prison, exile, or erasure.
Directed by
Hugo Perez
Written by
Hugo Perez
Produced by
AJ Leon, Melissa Leon, Jessie White, Ramfis Myrthil
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