Cuba Movies

In Cuba, artists have to be recognized by one of the state-sponsored art institutions that ensure their work complies with the state’s vision...

The Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry produces this short film that tries to explain the causes of the coup, anchoring them in debt...

Through different experiences and memories from inhabitants of the Cuban city of Holguín, this is a documentary about how soccer works both as...

Within a single roll of film, images of the funeral held in Bejucal to honour combatants killed in the Angolan War intertwine with celebrations of...

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 rare close-up of the Abakuá —an Afro-Cuban religious brotherhood that has been hidden from outsiders until recently. A symbol of...

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

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

A documentary short film (as well as a social project) shot in Havana, which depicts today's Cuban skate scene through the eyes of a kid who feels...

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

Some twenty five years after The Buena Vista Social Club, traditional Cuban music lives on, but it's facing a threat from foreign styles and a...

Animated short film based on comic strips by Argentine graphic humorist Joaquín Lavado, better known as Quino.

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

The conflicts of female boxers in Cuba are addressed. The film tells the life stories of members of the women's boxing team, who has to face many...

The "most cultured country in the world", the result of the "universalization of education", seen as an anthropological horror story. One of the cult...