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Havana. Cuba. The most bizarre and unexpected building in the city. A fourteen-storey tower that stands on the seafront boulevard, like a white monolith planted in the heart of the old colonial district. Strange tales are told about it. Gloomy gossip. Inside, the sounds of Cuban life echo in the stairwell. The old cleaning lady is talking to herself again. Pipes are leaking. The phone line is dead. As Cuba is bracing for a radical change, 51 MalecĂłn comes as a snapshot of a society somehow stuck in time. Waiting for something to happen. Waiting.
An introduction to the world of French composer Maurice Ravel through The String Quartet in F major, performed by the Canadian ensemble Quatuor Arthur Leblanc. The four movements of the quartet are presented on screen by dance segments recreating key elements of the composer's life interspersed with documentary vignettes.
The slopes overlooking the tiny Peruvian village of Rapayan are dotted with the remarkably well-preserved ruins of an indigenous settlement that predates the Inca conquest. It is a virtual city, complete with homes, a castle, a fortress, mausoleums, murals, subterranean galleries and mummified remains of its ancient inhabitants. As an archeological discovery, it is larger, richer and older than the celebrated Macchu Pichu.
