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‘We are a very resilient people’: in the face of Trump’s threats, Cuban cinema comes out fighting
With the island back in Washington’s sights, the Screen Cuba festival is taking UK audiences beyond the blockade The Guardian reports on Screen Cuba 24 March Tania Delgado, director of Havana International Festival of New Latin American Cinema: “We have a very hard embargo – blockade – and it affects everything, cinema is not an…
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Screen Cuba presents: THE TWELVE CHAIRS
12/04 MANCHESTER Home19/04 LEEDS HPPH Twelve Chairs / Las doce sillas | Tomás Gutiérrez Alea | 1962 | Cuba | 1h 37m | 18 | Black and white This first feature film by Alea is this cunning adaptation of a comic novel from the early years of the USSR by Ilf and Petrov. The madcap plot…
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Screen Cuba presents: A Night with the Rolling Stones
29/03 NOTTINGHAM Broadway02/04 DERBY Quad02/04 PONTYPRIDD Yma 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…
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Screen Cuba presents: The Last Supper
“A masterpiece from the first image to the last” LONDON – ICA – Tue 24 March LEEDS – Hyde Park PictureHouse – Sun 19 April The Last Supper / La última cena |Dir. Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Cuba, 1976 | 1hr 53 mins, colour, Spanish with English subtitles This powerful drama brings a pious sugar plantation…
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Special guest from Cuba: Joel Angelino
Screen Cuba is honoured to welcome Cuban actor Joel Angelino, Joel Angelino is a theatre and cinema actor and a graduate of the Cuban National Theatre School. He has appeared in many Spanish films and has his own theatre company in the Canary Islands where he currently lives called ‘The Magic Window’. Internationally he is…
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Special guest from Cuba: Tania Delgado Fernandez
Screen Cuba is honoured to welcome Tania Delgado Fernandez from Cuba to participate in events at this year’s Screen Cuba film festival. Tania began her career in copyright law and went on to work in the film industry in production and international distribution at the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry, ICAIC, and also…
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Special guest from Cuba: MIRTA IBARRA
Screen Cuba is honoured to welcome acclaimed Cuban actor Mirta Ibarra to participate in events at this year’s festival. Mirta is internationally known for her roles in popular movies ‘Strawberry and Chocolate’ and ‘Guantanamera’, and she stars in ‘Up to a Point/Hasta cierto punto’ which is being screened this March. She also appears in ‘House…
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Screen Cuba presents: 20 YEARS – 19 March
20 Years (2009) by Bárbaro Joel Ortiz is a brilliant short animation with a well-known Cuban song ‘Veinte Años’ sung by Omara Portuondo (of Buena Vista Social Club fame) as its soundtrack, with Harold Lopez-Nussa on piano. It tells the story of a woman who lives in a hostile environment of humiliation by her husband…
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Screen Cuba Reception including screening: Up to a Point – Wed 18 March
Tickets are still available for the Screen Cuba Gala Reception, with very special guests, and including screening of Up to a Point, plus free drink and festival poster, plus live Cuban music by the Latin Bridge. BOOK TICKETS 6.30pm, Wednesday 18 March 2026 at The Garden Cinema, Screen 2/3, including invite to Special Reception from…
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Screen Cuba presents: Life is Dance – Fri 27 March
Son – the first truly home-grown Cuban music and dance style – and its variations have ruled the Cuban dance floor for the last hundred years. But a new dance has exploded onto the scene, capturing the imagination of the young, Reggaeton. Can Cuba hold on to the roots of its dance culture, or will…
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Screen Cuba presents: CAPABLANCA (1987) – Sat 21 March
The brilliant chess player José Raúl Capablanca (1888-1942), is an icon to many Cubans: inspiring generations to learn the game, while Fidel Castro himself promoted it as a tool in educational development. Capablanca was world chess champion 1921-1927 and his style is described as intuitive, simple and beautiful. In Manuel Herrera’s film, “the chess machine”…
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Filmmakers from around the world express their solidarity with Cuba
For 46 years, thousands of film lovers and filmmakers have gathered in December to celebrate New Cinema at the Havana Film Festival. Thousands of filmmakers have passed through the classrooms of the International Film and Television School (EICTV) since its founding in 1986, developing critical and emancipatory perspectives and voices. A vast network of creators,…
SCREEN CUBA, 15-28 March 2026, LONDON & BEYOND 