Cuba Movies

Analysis of events in Congo from independence to the death of Patrice Lumumba.

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

Faría is an audacious prostitute whose life is in danger if she does not pay off a debt in less than 24 hours. Avelino is a fervent and honest...

2:13, 2013, Cuba.

Through acknowledging that hair and beauty standards are affected by old traditions of racism and oppression, young girls and boys of color are...

Created within forty-eight hours of Che Guevara’s death, Hasta la Victoria Siempre is a Cuban documentary tribute that combines archival...

It has been four years since Raulito had to go into exile in Miami. He lives abroad and the family decides to send him a video letter for his...

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

In 1987, a film school was founded next to a working-class town in western Cuba. For over three decades, hundreds of film students documented the...

The will and determination of Cuban women in the defense of the Revolution. Their confrontation with physical, psychological and social tensions...

A nocturnal portrait of Havana and its inhabitants through the songs they listen to and sing.

Several pregnant women needing particular attention live in the Cuban Maternal Waiting Home 'La Casona' ('The Big House'). Yudi, a 15-years old girl...

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...

In a faraway region, a family transforms everyday actions into rituals. Their circular existence is focused on the father, around whom the limbo of...

The author establishes a communication with his cancer-sick mother through text messages. During his stay in the island the author works on an...

After becoming wealthy in Cuba, a man decides to bring from Spain the daughter he abandoned twenty years prior. However he didn't expect the upheaval...

Papi La Amígdola, a famous reggaeton performer, wakes up in the middle of the night. Apparently, someone is trying to rob his house. Papi...