Screen Cuba:
Films to change the world
UK FESTIVAL OF CUBAN CINEMA, 15-28 MARCH 2026
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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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
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Special guest from Cuba: Tania Delgado Fernandez
Screen Cuba is honoured to welcome Tania Delgado Fernandez from Cuba to participate in events at this year’s Screen Cuba film festival. Tania began her career in copyright law and went on to work in the film industry in production and international distribution at the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry, ICAIC, and also… Read more
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Special guest from Cuba: MIRTA IBARRA
Screen Cuba is honoured to welcome acclaimed Cuban actor Mirta Ibarra to participate in events at this year’s festival. Mirta is internationally known for her roles in popular movies ‘Strawberry and Chocolate’ and ‘Guantanamera’, and she stars in ‘Up to a Point/Hasta cierto punto’ which is being screened this March. She also appears in ‘House… Read more
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Screen Cuba presents: 20 YEARS – 19 March
20 Years (2009) by Bárbaro Joel Ortiz is a brilliant short animation with a well-known Cuban song ‘Veinte Años’ sung by Omara Portuondo (of Buena Vista Social Club fame) as its soundtrack, with Harold Lopez-Nussa on piano. It tells the story of a woman who lives in a hostile environment of humiliation by her husband… Read more
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Screen Cuba Reception including screening: Up to a Point – Wed 18 March
Tickets are still available for the Screen Cuba Gala Reception, with very special guests, and including screening of Up to a Point, plus free drink and festival poster, plus live Cuban music by the Latin Bridge. BOOK TICKETS 6.30pm, Wednesday 18 March 2026 at The Garden Cinema, Screen 2/3, including invite to Special Reception from… Read more
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Screen Cuba presents: Life is Dance – Fri 27 March
Son – the first truly home-grown Cuban music and dance style – and its variations have ruled the Cuban dance floor for the last hundred years. But a new dance has exploded onto the scene, capturing the imagination of the young, Reggaeton. Can Cuba hold on to the roots of its dance culture, or will… Read more
SCREEN CUBA, 15-28 March 2026, LONDON & BEYOND 