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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.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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Screen Cuba 2025 presents: The Isle of Pines Trilogy by Sara Gómez
Sara Gómez, the first female director at the Cuban film institute (ICAIC), passionately explores everyday life with all its turmoil in the revolution’s early days. She was committed to the revolution and to changing society by creating a new cinematic language that addressed the themes and intersections of race, class and gender. Screen Cuba 2025…
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It’s time to reveal our Screen Cuba 2025 Festival poster!
Our fantastic poster for this year’s festival is designed by another young and brilliant Cuban graphic designer. Roberto Pérez Curbelo (aka Potto) studied visual communication design at the Superior Institute of Design of the University of Havana (ISDi). He grew up in Cerro, Havana and loved Cuban cartoons. He now makes graphics for visual arts…
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Screen Cuba 2025 postcards have arrived!
The 2nd edition of Screen Cuba film festival is coming 16-29 March 2025 to London and beyond. If you can help distribute our postcards please get in touch! Screen Cuba celebrates Cuban cinema, looking at the achievements and challenges of the Cuban people through the lenses of their filmmakers since the 1959 Revolution, and presents…
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ScreenCuba25 presents: Tomás Gutiérrez Alea’s iconic film ‘Memories of Underdevelopment’
This March Screen Cuba film festival will present the iconic 1968 masterpiece of Cuban cinema ‘Memories of Underdevelopment’ (Memorias de subdesarrollo). Read more here about the director Tomás Gutiérrez Alea and the film. “For a long time, every time they asked me about my profession, I was ashamed to say that I was a film…
SCREEN CUBA, 15-28 March 2026, LONDON & BEYOND 