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 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
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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
SCREEN CUBA, 15-28 March 2026, LONDON & BEYOND 