The Last Supper (La última cena), dir. Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Cuba, 1976, Spanish with English subtitles, 113 min.
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This powerful drama brings a pious sugar plantation owner, in 1790s Cuba, attempting to head off an uprising, to share his table at Easter with 12 enslaved men. A radical and often surreal parable showing slavery as an economic system and championing Black resistance. “A masterpiece from the first image to the last”.
The film was inspired by a real story. The impressive dinner sequence is the structural core of the film: almost an hour, which feels experimental and chaotic. “Let me see if I understand, when overseer beats me, I should be happy?” says one man at the table to the plantation owner. It is an extraordinary meditation on speech and power, slavery and freedom, submission and rebellion, ideology and oppression, ritual and ethics. 2026 marks its 50th anniversary.
The screening will be introduced by a Cuban film specialist.
The film was inspired by a real story. The impressive dinner sequence is the structural core of the film: almost an hour, which feels experimental and chaotic. “Let me see if I understand, when overseer beats me, I should be happy?” says one man at the table to the plantation owner. It is an extraordinary meditation on speech and power, slavery and freedom, submission and rebellion, ideology and oppression, ritual and ethics. 2026 marks its 50th anniversary.
The screening will be introduced by a Cuban film specialist.
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06:30 pm
Tue, 24 Mar 2026
Cinema 1
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