Cuba Movies

Filmmaker Carolina Valencia documents her effort to become a witch doctor in the Santaria tradition as well as her struggles as a transgender person.

1:15, 2016, Cuba.

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....

Mexican feature film

"...it had no plot. The film was more a study of people's behavior, shot in 16mm with a hand-held camera, which was hidden most of the time. In its...

In 1967, Cuban documentary filmmaker Octavio Cortazar followed a travelling projectionist troupe whose mission was to show moving pictures to rural...

A young woman is robbed in the poor neighborhoods of Havana where she lives. Although she knows who the thief is, she remains silent.

In September 1968, Fidel Castro comments on the suppression of the Prague Spring in surprisingly critical terms. He opens his thunderous speech with...

Nadir, a man mired in depression and anxiety, finds a dangerous temptation in an old razor. In the midst of this emotional crisis, a childhood memory...

Full-length documentary about the life, passion and example of Pablo de la Torriente Brau, built from testimonial elements and reconstructions of...

“The strange joy of living”, as the Italian poet Sandro Penna wrote, or how to make love until the end of our days. A middle-aged Cuban...

A commentary on fossil fuels and climate change

Aniversario by Ernesto Domecq Menéndez, 2:57, 2014, Cuba.

Sayu, in her adolescence, struggles between divergent realities to shape her identity. On the one hand she is a Cuban who skates and loves to sing,...

Every night before sleep, Matías (4) and Salvador (2) wait impatiently the call of their distant grandfather that narrates fabulous deeds of...