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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Film specialists invited from Cuba
Screen Cuba is delighted to announce the two Cuban film specialists from Havana invited to participate in the Festival. Both guests will be available for Q&A sessions and to meet audiences more informally in the cinema’s Garden Bar following screenings. Tania Delgado Fernández is the new Director of the prestigious International Festival of the New Read more
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Screen Cuba presents: Habana Selfies by Arturo Santana
This unmissable urban comedy with melancholic, romantic and absurd touches is told in six stories that form portraits of Havana. The thread is a car trip through night-time Havana interrupted. The music soundtrack reinforces the connections. The director Santana dedicated it to his city on its 500th birthday saying “I tried by every means, to be Read more
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Screen Cuba presents: De Cierta Manera/ One way or another by Sara Gomez
Sara Gomez, a genuinely original filmmaker and the first female director at the Cuban Cinema Institute (ICAIC), passionately explores everyday life with all its turmoil in the revolution’s early days. Female and black, Gomez was committed to the revolution and to changing society by creating a new cinematic language that addressed the contemporary themes of Read more
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Screen Cuba presents: La Muerte de un Burocrata / The Death of a Bureaucrat by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
This classic film satirises how red tape in the revolution affects the everyday lives of its people. As a badge of honour, a model worker is buried with his labour card in his pocket. But his widow needs it to claim the benefits she is entitled to. The film traces the family’s often hilarious Kafka-esque Read more
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Screen Cuba presents: Escena Eliminada / Blank by Daniel Santoyo
Young filmmaker Daniel Santoyo directs this innovative short about a new pandemic that is sweeping the world which causes some of the dead to return to life. As a journalist is filmed showing a new facility to house bodies in an attempt to contain the disease, the camera inadvertently reveals the awakening of a woman’s Read more
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Screen Cuba presents: …Y Tenemos Sabor / …And we’ve got flavour by Sara Gómez
Sara Gómez is a participant-observer in this rich documentary from 1967 about the origins of Afro Cuban music experienced through the instruments used. The film consists of short interviews, footage of impromptu street performances and some studio recordings. Gómez’s commitment to featuring multiple voices in the post-revolutionary society results in a fascinating history of how Read more
SCREEN CUBA, 15-28 March 2026, LONDON & BEYOND 