De Bateyes

Sometimes the (only possible?) revolution cinema can make is just giving voice to the working people who build entire societies and countries with their bare hands so they can have their say about exploration, sorrow and unjust hard labor. And Gómez truly manages to create an unique panel of what was like being a worker in Cuba decades before the 60s. It's also remarkable how she finds time to convey ancestrality and its poetry through oral stories -- like the griot section, who genuinely deserved his own short film.