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Screen Cuba helps restore first animation feature in Cuban cinema history
The Cuban film institute ICAIC has announced they will be using the £11,000 funds raised by Screen Cuba 2026 for the digitization and restoration of the first animated full length feature film in Cuban cinema and four more shorts by Cuba’s father of animation Juan Padrón. Elpidio Valdés (1979, 70m) directed by Juan Padrón and…
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Material aid in use by the film archive team in Havana
In May 2026 Screen Cuba was able to see the material aid in use that we had sent to the ICAIC film archive in Havana last year, in collaboration with Music Fund for Cuba charity and Cuba Solidarity Campaign. This aid consisted of £2000-worth of protective gloves (900 pairs) and other protective clothing (such as…
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Screen Cuba wraps up for 2026
After almost two months of screening another selection of incredible films the 2026 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 UK audiences want to see Cuban cinema which…
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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…
SCREEN CUBA, March 2027, LONDON & BEYOND 