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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Screen Cuba Festival 2025 helps restore short films by Juan Padrón
Screen Cuban has done it again! The Festival has recently paid £6,700 to the Colombian Film Heritage Foundation as requested by the Cuban Film Institute (ICAIC), to support ICAIC’s project to restore many of its important classic films in its archive. Last year we donated £3000, enabling the restoration of two early cartoons about Elpidio… Read more
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Music Fund for Cuba donates supplies for Cuban film makers
Boxes of much needed materials for the Cuban Film Institute are on their way to Havana. They have been donated by one of Screen Cuba’s sponsors, The Music Fund for Cuba. The charity responded to an appeal by ICAIC’s restoration archive team for specific items which are impossible to source in Cuba thanks to the… Read more
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Film by Cuban children came to Britain
Several hundred children greeted the Cuban short Una Aventura de Elpido Valdés by Juan Padrón with plenty of laughs about its slapstick jokes and humorous escapades when it was screened at the Children’s International Film Festival @childrensfilmfestival in Kingston, UK in June. This 1974 animation about a popular anti-colonial hero, loved by Cuban children, was… Read more
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Cuban Film Institute recognises Screen Cuba
Screen Cuba has received a special award from the Cuban Film Institute (ICAIC) and we are delighted to receive it. In presenting the award to Screen Cuba coordinators Trish Meehan and Dodie Weppler in recognition of the Festival’s success in the past two years, Cuban Ambassador Ismara Vargas Walter explained how the Festival played a… Read more
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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
SCREEN CUBA, 15-28 March 2026, LONDON & BEYOND 