Screen Cuba:
Films to change the world
UK FESTIVAL OF CUBAN CINEMA, MARCH 2027
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.
2026 PROGRAMME Tickets on sale
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Screen Cuba wraps up for 2026
After almost two months of screening another selection of incredible films the 2026 festival is over.We are delighted that we have had such positive feedback about the programme, and increased our audience by more than a third over last year in London alone. It once again confirms UK audiences want to see Cuban cinema which… Read more
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‘We are a very resilient people’: in the face of Trump’s threats, Cuban cinema comes out fighting
With the island back in Washington’s sights, the Screen Cuba festival is taking UK audiences beyond the blockade The Guardian reports on Screen Cuba 24 March Tania Delgado, director of Havana International Festival of New Latin American Cinema: “We have a very hard embargo – blockade – and it affects everything, cinema is not an… Read more
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Screen Cuba presents: THE TWELVE CHAIRS
12/04 MANCHESTER Home19/04 LEEDS HPPH Twelve Chairs / Las doce sillas | Tomás Gutiérrez Alea | 1962 | Cuba | 1h 37m | 18 | Black and white This first feature film by Alea is this cunning adaptation of a comic novel from the early years of the USSR by Ilf and Petrov. The madcap plot… Read more
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Screen Cuba presents: A Night with the Rolling Stones
29/03 NOTTINGHAM Broadway02/04 DERBY Quad02/04 PONTYPRIDD Yma Director Patricia Ramos sets this comedy drama, her second feature and also written by her, in 2016 Havana.It was a time when Cuba featured regularly in the international media with Obama’s visit, a Chanel fashion show and the historic Rolling Stones concert. This film is not about that… Read more
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Screen Cuba presents: The Last Supper
“A masterpiece from the first image to the last” LONDON – ICA – Tue 24 March LEEDS – Hyde Park PictureHouse – Sun 19 April The Last Supper / La última cena |Dir. Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Cuba, 1976 | 1hr 53 mins, colour, Spanish with English subtitles This powerful drama brings a pious sugar plantation… Read more
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Special guest from Cuba: Joel Angelino
Screen Cuba is honoured to welcome Cuban actor Joel Angelino, Joel Angelino is a theatre and cinema actor and a graduate of the Cuban National Theatre School. He has appeared in many Spanish films and has his own theatre company in the Canary Islands where he currently lives called ‘The Magic Window’. Internationally he is… Read more
SCREEN CUBA, March 2027, LONDON & BEYOND 