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  • 2007
  • Not Rated
  • Sony BMG Feature Films
  • 1 h 22 m
  • 2007
  • Not Rated
  • Sony BMG Feature Films
  • 1 h 22 m

Summary East of Havana is an unflinching close-up on the lives and friendship of three young rappers compelled to address their generation's future from the confines of a Cuban ghetto. Soandry, Magyori, and Mikki possess theundeniable talent and charisma of pop icons; but within Cuba's fearless and rebellious undergound movement, they are also t...

Directed By: Emilia Menocal, Jauretsi Saizarbitoria

Written By: Emilia Menocal, Jauretsi Saizarbitoria

  • 2007
  • Not Rated
  • Sony BMG Feature Films
  • 1 h 22 m
  • 2007
  • Not Rated
  • Sony BMG Feature Films
  • 1 h 22 m

East of Havana

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Summary East of Havana is an unflinching close-up on the lives and friendship of three young rappers compelled to address their generation's future from the confines of a Cuban ghetto. Soandry, Magyori, and Mikki possess theundeniable talent and charisma of pop icons; but within Cuba's fearless and rebellious undergound movement, they are also t...

Directed By: Emilia Menocal, Jauretsi Saizarbitoria

Written By: Emilia Menocal, Jauretsi Saizarbitoria

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Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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The rap music we hear, which is produced outside Cuba's state-run music industry, is politically audacious and charged with personal expression and uplift. The film was produced by Charlize Theron's socially conscious company, Denver and Delilah films.
By Peter Rainer FULL REVIEW
75
The film, made by two Cuban-American exiles (and produced by their friend, Charlize Theron), makes an ironic point about Cuba: This is a land where the grandparents are revolutionaries (or at least say they are) but the kids are yearning for capitalist globalization.
By Kyle Smith FULL REVIEW
70
East of Havana is a rare glimpse of everyday life in Cuba, where big questions and obstacles confront the rappers at seemingly every turn. Some of their lyrical criticism of the government is downright brave. The artists don't live in utter squalor, but are certainly impoverished by American standards.
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70
So much of American pop thrives on a bratty facsimile of courage that when you see the real deal, it's a revelation. East of Havana is the real deal.
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A vital look at Cuba's tenaciously grassroots hip-hop scene.
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East of Havana picks at these politico-philosophical threads rather than pulling them, and the sense of a larger movement is fleeting. There's a beat, but we never quite see who's dancing to it.
By Scott Brown FULL REVIEW
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The temptations of allowing a promotional video to seep inside a genuine non-fiction study nearly overtake East of Havana and its look at a bubbling hip-hop culture in Cuba.
By Robert Koehler FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Denver and Delilah Productions
Release Date Feb 2, 2007
Duration 1 h 22 m
Rating Not Rated
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Awards

Los Angeles Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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