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.
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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
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WEDNESDAY 19 MARCH Screen Cuba presents: Portrait of Teresa / Retrato de Teresa
A crisis between husband and wife in a working class marriage is the focus for a dramatic examination of the changes generated by the Revolution as many more women entered the workforce. This film sparked a widespread debate throughout Cuban society. The Family Code (1975) had declared household chores and childcare should be shared equally.… Read more
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SUNDAY 16 MARCH Screen Cuba presents: Clandestinos
It’s Havana, a year before the 1959 revolution, and a group of young people are fighting against President Batista’s tyranny in a clandestine action cell. A dramatic story of love, solidarity, illusions and sacrifice based on real events. An incredible first film, with a tight script like a thriller, by the most important current Cuban… Read more
SCREEN CUBA, 15-28 March 2026, LONDON & BEYOND 