Cuba Movies

A Sunday afternoon in the neighbourhood: apparently nothing happens. In this stillness, humorous observations unfold, in which the trivial becomes...

Ritual dances, incantations and fetishes in an associative sequence of mystical scenes reveal the roots of the Afro-Cuban minority in Bauta, Cuba,...

To understand the history of Cuban rum is to understand the history of Cuba itself. From belief systems to music to revolution, rum has been there,...

Animated short film, with animation and story by Quino.

In a carpentry workshop, Lorenzo restores the corpse of an old wooden chair. On the other side of the city, the silence of the cemetery is...

The 50-minute "Madagascar" has the resonance and eloquence of the best poetry, as it deftly turns an adolescent's search for identity into a metaphor...

In downtown Havana, Tomás and Luis built a home in their own terms – Beatles' posters share their space with a pet chicken and a dog....

The dark forest is the record of a long journey that connects two funerary rituals in Cuba: the state burial to say goodbye to the fallen in the...

Tony is fascinated by Neisy during the Rolling Stones concert in Havana. As he follows her around, he decides to make a secret documentary about her...

A film about contemporary Cuban youth through the music and dance of Reggaeton. Despite being the most popular music in the island, it's barely heard...

A children’s short directed by one of the most well-known figures in Cuban animation.

"Esculturas Rupestres" (Rupestrian Sculptures) was made in Jaruco Park outside of Havana. The low relief sculptures that resembled petroglyphs, were...

Guided by a book by Néstor Almendros that he acquired clandestinely in Havana in the 1980s, Ricardo Vega filmed in 8 mm and edited the images...

A child discovers the importance of work, however simple it may be, by understanding the usefulness of the nuts his father makes.

Cuban filmmaker Enrique "Kiki" Álvarez's newest feature paints a slow-burning love story set in the years immediately following the Cuban...

The filmmaker visits her dying father, a Cuban exile in Texas, for the last time. When she leaves, nothing remains: neither the father nor the...

Analysis of the Republic, from the end of the War of Independence to the beginning of the insurrection against the dictatorship of General Fulgencio...

The Spanish are waiting for a military train that will reinforce their positions. The Liberation Army will to free the town and Captain Valdés...