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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…
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Message from our patron MICHAEL CHANAN for Screen Cuba 2025
“Cuban cinema was created by the Revolution. Looking back over the decades, one of the striking things about it is that the vitality and iconoclasm of its first brave years remain inspirational for subsequent generations, who bring their own concerns but do not repudiate its aesthetic heritage, which is on display in this festival. Here,…
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Holly Aylett, Screen Cuba patron, sends a message for 2025
“Screen Cuba has already proved its worth not only by already reviving audience interests in London and the UK in Cuba’s renowned film industry, but also in supporting the restoration of two shorts by Juan Padrón, one of Cuba’s astounding pioneer animators.“As someone who had the privilege to be amongst the first delegation of independent…
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Message of support from KEN LOACH for Screen Cuba 2025
“I am pleased to send a message of support to this festival to celebrate Cuban film. In these dark times we must recognise the importance of Cuban cinema. The USA has tried every method to destroy the independence of Cuba, and as their politics swing dangerously to the right, we need to show our support…
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Restoration of the first cartoons of Elpidio Valdés – the rebel icon
As a result of the impact of successive floods and a humid tropical climate, combined with the shortages of crucial materials and equipment due to the US blockade over decades, the film archive at ICAIC in Havana has really suffered and many old 35mm celluloid films are seriously damaged. From the proceeds of the Screen…
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Screen Cuba to return 16-29 March 2025 – save the date!
Plans are already underway for another unique and diverse celebration of Cuban cinema, for two weeks in March 2025. After the sell-out success of our 2024 festival, Screen Cuba is delighted to bring to London’s screens and beyond an exceptional line-up of films created by some of Cuba’s most revered directors, alongside newly emerging talent. Be prepared…
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ICAIC – Championing Cuban Cinema for 65 years
Gladys González Martin, Vice President of ICAIC, the Cuban Film Institute, talked to Trish Meehan for CubaSi magazine about the history and future of Cuba’s film industry How do you see the role of ICAIC right now as it arrives at its 65th anniversary? For the last 65 years, ICAIC’s fundamental role has been to…
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ICAIC Cuban film posters available
From the beginning of the Revolution a new genre of poster art was created, not just to offer soundbites or push passive consumption but out of necessity to communicate with the Cuban people (many of whom were illiterate). The Cuban film institute ICAIC, established in March 1959, had its own poster graphics department and produced…
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“The Festival isn’t just a four month process”: Tania Delgado on directing the 45th International Festival of New Latin American Cinema
Tania Delgado is the director of the renowned Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano (International Festival of New Latin American Cinema), one of the most prestigious film festivals in Latin America. Established in 1979 by Cuban filmmaker and intellectual Alfredo Guevara, the festival emerged in response to the growing recognition of the need to represent…
SCREEN CUBA, March 2027, LONDON & BEYOND 