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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Launch of Screen Cuba festival video as first tickets go on sale
We totally love this video for Screen Cuba festival 2025 made by brilliant designer in Cuba, Roberto Perez Curbelo [ @potto on instagram], including the original music. He also made our festival poster. Read more
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Direct from Havana – two guests!
Screen Cuba is delighted to announce that we will welcome two guests from Cuba to our Film Festival. Gladys González Martínez and Silvia Padrón Durán will both introduce films, participate in Q&As, as well as more informal chat with audiences after the screenings. Gladys González Martínez is the Vice President of the Cuban film institute Read more
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SATURDAY 29 MARCH Screen Cuba presents: A Night with the Rolling Stones/Una Noche con los Rolling Stones + short: Blue Pandora/Pandora Azul
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 historical concert, rather that moment. Middle-aged Read more
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WEDNESDAY 26 MARCH Screen Cuba presents: Behaviour / Conducta + short: Elpidio Valdés
This celebrated film won multiple awards, having started out as a movie-workshop for a group of students in Havana. With echoes of Ken Loach’s Kes, 11-year-old Chala keeps pigeons and illegally trains fighting dogs in order to support himself and his alcoholic mother. Chala is understood by his teacher Carmela, but when a new less Read more
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SUNDAY 23 MARCH Screen Cuba presents: The People of the Documentary / La Gente del Documental
In 2018 an exciting historic artistic exchange took place hosted by the Kennedy Centre in Washington DC. For the first time, up to 400 Cuban artists (living on and outside the island) were set to perform together in a festival. Planning began when Obama was US president and talks were taking place between the US and Read more
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FRIDAY 21 MARCH Screen Cuba presents: The World of Nelsito /El Mundo de Nelsito
In his latest film Fernando Pérez, Cuba’s most important contemporary director, has created a dark comedy drama exploring perception and imagination through the eyes of a disabled autistic teenager with little means to communicate. When Nelsito is involved in an accident he observes life from his hospital bed, and imagines the dark, hidden and sometimes Read more
SCREEN CUBA, 15-28 March 2026, LONDON & BEYOND 