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Screen Cuba 2025 festival trailer launched
Screen Cuba: Films to Change the World 16-29 March 2025 Festival of Cuban Cinema – London and beyond – trailer copyright Screen Cuba. Thanks to Roberto Perez Curbelo in Havana for original animation and Danko Rosete and Raulo Napoles for original music, to MatiStudio.co for footage editing.
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TUESDAY 18 MARCH Screen Cuba presents: Guantanamera + Elpidio Valdés
A satire on life in Cuba during the ‘Special Period’ of the early 1990s, as well as an absurd comedy road trip from one end of the island to the other by the master of Cuban cinema. Tuesday 18 March, 6.30pm Screen 1 at the ICA London BOOK TICKETS NOW Guantanamera | Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Juan Carlos Tabío |…
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SATURDAY 29 MARCH Screen Cuba presents: Accelerated Under-development: A Film in the Idiom of Santiago Álvarez + Hurricane + Cerro Pelado + Funeral of Benny Moré
A tribute to the revolutionary Cuban filmmaker Santiago Álvarez and his “urgent cinema” approach he developed, making hundreds of innovative newsreels and documentaries raising public consciousness from the early 1960s. Followed by three important early shorts by Alvarez. Introduced by Michael Chanan, filmmaker and writer, author of ‘Cuban Cinema’ (2003) and special guest from Cuba,…
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TUESDAY 25 MARCH Screen Cuba presents: Memories of Underdevelopment + For the First Time
This film by Alea, possibly Cuba’s greatest director, is the most internationally renowned work in the history of Cuban cinema. It explores the ambivalent thoughts of an anti-hero, privileged would-be writer Sergio as he faces a new uncertain life after his wife and family flee to the US between the Bay of Pigs invasion and…
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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…
SCREEN CUBA, 15-28 March 2026, LONDON & BEYOND 