Screen Cuba:
Films to change the world
UK FESTIVAL OF CUBAN CINEMA, MARCH 2024
Celebrating Cuban cinema
Screen Cuba celebrates Cuban cinema, looking at achievements and challenges of the Cuban people through the lenses of their filmmakers since the 1959 revolution, and presenting films rarely screened in the UK.
With a range of directors and diverse themes, we bring you inspiring shorts, ground-breaking features, documentaries, and discussions with Cuban film specialists.
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ICAIC – Championing Cuban Cinema for 65 years
Gladys González Martin, Vice President of ICAIC, the Cuban Film Institute, talked to Trish Meehan for CubaSi magazine about the history and future of Cuba’s film industry How do you see the role of ICAIC right now as it arrives at its 65th anniversary? For the last 65 years, ICAIC’s fundamental role has been to… Read more
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ICAIC Cuban film posters available
From the beginning of the Revolution a new genre of poster art was created, not just to offer soundbites or push passive consumption but out of necessity to communicate with the Cuban people (many of whom were illiterate). The Cuban film institute ICAIC, established in March 1959, had its own poster graphics department and produced… Read more
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“The Festival isn’t just a four month process”: Tania Delgado on directing the 45th International Festival of New Latin American Cinema
Tania Delgado is the director of the renowned Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano (International Festival of New Latin American Cinema), one of the most prestigious film festivals in Latin America. Established in 1979 by Cuban filmmaker and intellectual Alfredo Guevara, the festival emerged in response to the growing recognition of the need to represent… Read more
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Full houses at Screen Cuba!
It’s (almost) a wrap! After two weeks of screening an amazing selection of brilliant films the 2024 festival is almost over. [Also showing ‘Death of a Bureaucrat’ in Newport (17 April) and Norwich (23 April), and ‘Strawberry & Chocolate’ in Oxford (18 April).] We are delighted that film after film in London sold out as… Read more
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‘Death of a Bureaucrat’ in Newport – 17 April
Cymru Cuba and Screen Cuba present: Death of a Bureaucrat (1966, Tomas Gutierrez Alea, Cuba, 85m, B&W, Subtitles, PG) Wednesday, 17 April 2024, 6:30pm Venue: Barnabas Arts House, 4A New Ruperra St, Newport NP20 2BB This classic film satirises how red tape in the revolution affected the everyday lives of its people. As a badge… Read more
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‘Death of a Bureaucrat’ in Norwich – 23 April
CSC Norwich and Screen Cuba present: Death of a Bureaucrat (1966, Tomas Gutierrez Alea, Cuba, 85m, B&W, Subtitles, PG) Tuesday, 23 April 2024, 7:00pm The Elizabeth Fry Building, Room 1:01, University of East Anglia, Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7TJ This classic film satirises how red tape in the revolution affected the everyday lives of its… Read more
SCREEN CUBA, 9-22 March 2024, LONDON 