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.
2025 PROGRAMME
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Screen Cuba wraps up for 2025 – “together we can do amazing things”
After screening another selection of incredible films from Cuba in London and beyond, the 2025 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 our view that UK audiences Read more
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Padrón book captures “the identity of an entire people”
This year Screen Cuba will give a special place to the work of Cuban director Juan Padrón (1947-2020), the island’s revered godfather of animation. Not only are we screening two of his first animations, we are welcoming his daughter Silvia Padrón, who is working to preserve his legacy, and we are also making available for Read more
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Screen Cuba 2025 festival trailer launched
Screen Cuba: Films to Change the World 16-29 March 2025 Festival of Cuban Cinema – London and beyond – trailer copyright Screen Cuba. Thanks to Roberto Perez Curbelo in Havana for original animation and Danko Rosete and Raulo Napoles for original music, to MatiStudio.co for footage editing. Read more
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TUESDAY 18 MARCH Screen Cuba presents: Guantanamera + Elpidio Valdés
A satire on life in Cuba during the ‘Special Period’ of the early 1990s, as well as an absurd comedy road trip from one end of the island to the other by the master of Cuban cinema. Tuesday 18 March, 6.30pm Screen 1 at the ICA London BOOK TICKETS NOW Guantanamera | Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Juan Carlos Tabío | Read more
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SATURDAY 29 MARCH Screen Cuba presents: Accelerated Under-development: A Film in the Idiom of Santiago Álvarez + Hurricane + Cerro Pelado + Funeral of Benny Moré
A tribute to the revolutionary Cuban filmmaker Santiago Álvarez and his “urgent cinema” approach he developed, making hundreds of innovative newsreels and documentaries raising public consciousness from the early 1960s. Followed by three important early shorts by Alvarez. Introduced by Michael Chanan, filmmaker and writer, author of ‘Cuban Cinema’ (2003) and special guest from Cuba, Read more
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TUESDAY 25 MARCH Screen Cuba presents: Memories of Underdevelopment + For the First Time
This film by Alea, possibly Cuba’s greatest director, is the most internationally renowned work in the history of Cuban cinema. It explores the ambivalent thoughts of an anti-hero, privileged would-be writer Sergio as he faces a new uncertain life after his wife and family flee to the US between the Bay of Pigs invasion and Read more
SCREEN CUBA, 15-28 March 2026, LONDON & BEYOND 