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Screen Cuba presents: NOW! by Santiago Álvarez
NOW! is a hard-hitting documentary short about the civil rights movement in the US. It was made in 1965 by Santiago Alvarez, known as one of the most influential documentary filmmakers the revolution produced. He had spent part of the 50s living in the States. For 30 years he headed up the Cuban Film Institute’s now…
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Cuban designer Emii creates our Festival poster
Screen Cuba is delighted to announce that the accomplished Cuban graphic designer and illustrator Emilio Cruañas Pérez has created an amazing poster for the Film Festival. The poster is now on its way to the printers and we can’t wait to reveal it to you. It will be sold to raise funds for the digitisation…
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Thanks to Havana Glasgow Film Festival
The Havana Glasgow Film Festival has sent best wishes to the first edition of Screen Cuba and we return the greeting. We wish you success in your preparations for 2025! “The Havana Glasgow Film Festival would like to say good luck as we prepare for our 10th anniversary festival in 2025. We’re delighted to see…
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THE BROTHERS /Los Hermanos
Screen Cuba will show this brilliantly-crafted film that affirms the power of art, in this case music. Directed by Marcia Jarmel and Ken Schneider of Patchworks Films, a progressive production company in San Francisco, this documentary tracks the lives of two Cuban brothers, both virtuoso musicians. Illmar López-Gavilán leaves Cuba for further tuition, ending up…
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Sara Gómez: Cuba’s first female film director
Born in Guanabacoa, near Havana (November 8, 1942 – June 2, 1974) Sara Gomez died at just 32 years old, but her work endures. She trained as a musician and ethnographer, studying at the Havana Conservatory. She turned to journalism to express her political views and after the revolution went to ICAIC to work on…
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La Súper: the Cuban superheroine fighting violence against women
Cuba’s first superhero feature length animation premiered in December 2022 at Havana’s New Latin American Cinema festival. ‘La Super’ translated as ‘Supergal’ features a feminist superheroine based on a comic strip made by director Ernesto Piña with scriptwriter Hugo Rivalta more than a decade ago. “We have created an international story that can be understood…
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Cuban filmmaker Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
“For a long time, every time they asked me about my profession, I was ashamed to say that I was a film director, because they did not exist in our country. When I said it, many thought that I was directing or managing a cinema, and they asked me which one. Eventually, trying to avoid…
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Save the date!
Screen Cuba: Films to change the world 9-22 March 2024 the festival of Cuban Cinema is coming to London. Watch this space!
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Cuban newsreels – a memory of the world
On 6 June 1960 ICAIC released its first newsreel shown in cinemas around the country
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Cuban Cinema Posters: Documentary Heritage of the World
In May 2023 UNESCO recognised Cuban cinema posters as part of ‘World Memory’
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A Short History of Cuban Cinema
Highlighting some stand-out films in revolutionary Cuba’s cinematic history
SCREEN CUBA, 15-28 March 2026, LONDON & BEYOND 