Cuba Movies

Controversial cinéma vérité analysis of Havana’s lumpenproletariat in waterfront bars and cafés shortly after the...

The bittersweet poignancy of a fleeting present moment fading into memory, and the intent to capture it all. Ethereal and ephemeral, my eternal space.

Various family members attend a wake in a crumbling national funeral home to grieve the loss of their eldest patriarch, a patriot and proponent for...

A documentary portrayal of life at Havana’s Central Park in the early 1960s. Occasional visitors, entertainers, passers-by, but most specially...

On a Caribbean island, half a century ago, a revolution created a new frontier beyond which, little by little, the outside world became vaporous,...

A unique perspective on the personal and artistic world of Manuel Mendive, prominent contemporary Cuban artist. A creator in various genres such as...

A Cuban dance short, choreographed by Eduardo Rivero.

Volcán captures a raised mound of earth set against a grassy riverbank. A white silhouette in the shape of a female body lies atop of the...

Ana wants to go hunting but her older sister and her grandfather do not allow her. Ana is haunted by her nightmares but what is more troubling are...

In a small Cuban fishing village, Joel, the oldest brother in a traditional family, is heartbroken when his fiancée marries someone her family...

Documentary film on the end of the Vietnam War, the fall of Saigon and the departure of American troops, as well as a tracing of 4000 years of...

A short 1962 black & white gem by Cuban director Humberto Solás, with Hector Veita, about creating the Escuelas Nacionales de Arte (National...

A beautifully constructed love letter transforming a 1993 interview conducted by the Cuban filmmaker with her grandmother, into a celebration of not...

Full of Caribbean music and from which a torrid romance is born.

A rare independent film from Cuba, this charming and tender portrait of female friendship follows three hair-salon employees as they hit the town...

From the side of the heart, is a documentary that tries to discover the reasons, motivations and individual situations that led numerous people to...

The film follows a young man's jealousy over his girlfriend attending a backyard party in Havana, where musical acts and dances are performed. This...

A documentary made by Cuban journalists about the Portuguese revolution in 1974 that overthrew the dictatorship of Salazar

Afibola and Olorum live in a house in downtown Havana. She is an afrofeminist poet, activist and queer, he is her eight-year-old son. Afibola sees...