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.
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Screen Cuba presents: Los Hermanos / The Brothers
The Brothers is a brilliantly-crafted film that affirms the power of art, in this case music. This documentary tracks the lives of two Cuban brothers, both virtuoso musicians. Illmar López-Gavilán leaves Cuba for further tuition, ending up as a violinist in the US, while his younger brother Aldo wins recognition for his extraordinary talent as a… Read more
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Film specialists invited from Cuba
Screen Cuba is delighted to announce the two Cuban film specialists from Havana invited to participate in the Festival. Both guests will be available for Q&A sessions and to meet audiences more informally in the cinema’s Garden Bar following screenings. Tania Delgado Fernández is the new Director of the prestigious International Festival of the New… Read more
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Screen Cuba presents: Habana Selfies by Arturo Santana
This unmissable urban comedy with melancholic, romantic and absurd touches is told in six stories that form portraits of Havana. The thread is a car trip through night-time Havana interrupted. The music soundtrack reinforces the connections. The director Santana dedicated it to his city on its 500th birthday saying “I tried by every means, to be… Read more
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Screen Cuba presents: De Cierta Manera/ One way or another by Sara Gomez
Sara Gomez, a genuinely original filmmaker and the first female director at the Cuban Cinema Institute (ICAIC), passionately explores everyday life with all its turmoil in the revolution’s early days. Female and black, Gomez was committed to the revolution and to changing society by creating a new cinematic language that addressed the contemporary themes of… Read more
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Screen Cuba presents: La Muerte de un Burocrata / The Death of a Bureaucrat by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
This classic film satirises how red tape in the revolution affects the everyday lives of its people. As a badge of honour, a model worker is buried with his labour card in his pocket. But his widow needs it to claim the benefits she is entitled to. The film traces the family’s often hilarious Kafka-esque… Read more
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Screen Cuba presents: Escena Eliminada / Blank by Daniel Santoyo
Young filmmaker Daniel Santoyo directs this innovative short about a new pandemic that is sweeping the world which causes some of the dead to return to life. As a journalist is filmed showing a new facility to house bodies in an attempt to contain the disease, the camera inadvertently reveals the awakening of a woman’s… Read more
SCREEN CUBA, March 2027, LONDON & BEYOND 