About the film
Beautiful Me(s): Finding Our Revolutionary Selves in Black Cuba is a short documentary that depicts a predominantly African American group of Yale University students who are passionately concerned about racial inequality. The students, whose sense of being marginalized within the university led to their intrigue with the revolutionary culture of Cuba and its antagonistic relationship with the United States, decide to take an extraordinary "field trip" to Havana and Santiago in May 2002. They embarked on the trip as a way to study an alternative society that accepts and embraces its African roots.
These students come to experience the distinct culture of Cuba that is driven by its sense of community and hope.
From the film's Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA 4.0).