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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…
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Screen Cuba presents: Life is Dance – Fri 27 March
Son – the first truly home-grown Cuban music and dance style – and its variations have ruled the Cuban dance floor for the last hundred years. But a new dance has exploded onto the scene, capturing the imagination of the young, Reggaeton. Can Cuba hold on to the roots of its dance culture, or will…
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Filmmakers from around the world express their solidarity with Cuba
For 46 years, thousands of film lovers and filmmakers have gathered in December to celebrate New Cinema at the Havana Film Festival. Thousands of filmmakers have passed through the classrooms of the International Film and Television School (EICTV) since its founding in 1986, developing critical and emancipatory perspectives and voices. A vast network of creators,…
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Jorge Luis Sánchez – a non-conformist director
Jorge Luis Sánchez, director and screenwriter, director of ‘El Benny’, was founder of the National Federation of Film Clubs of Cuba, artistic deputy director of the Latin American ICAIC News and promoted new and young voices and defended Cuba’s cultural diversity. Director Jorge Luis Sanchez who sadly died in January 2025, studied teaching and started…
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Screen Cuba presents: EL BENNY – Wed 25 March -London
El Benny offers a warts-and-all but compassionate portrayal of the life of legendary singer and bandleader Benny Moré (1919–1963) – by Cuban director Jorge Luis Sanchez, that not only celebrates his extraordinary musical talent but also illuminates the broader social context of music-making by Black musicians in pre-revolutionary years. It doesn’t hide from the man’s…
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Thanks to our commercial sponsors
With Screen Cuba ready for another successful season this March, we are reflecting on how the continued support of our partners each year enables us to build on our past achievements. On this occasion, we would like to give a special shout-out to the companies sponsoring the Festival. All of them have strong connections with…
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Thank you to our trade union sponsors
We would like to take this time to extend our sincere thanks to two special Festival sponsors— the National Education Union and Equity.Since the festival’s launch in 2024, members of these two unions have been an integral part of our audiences, and their support has been central to the mission of Screen Cuba. We are…
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Titón and the art of political cinema
MICHAEL CHANAN previews three films of Tomás Alea to be shown in Screen Cuba 2026 Looking back at the films of Tomás (Titón) Gutiérrez Alea almost thirty years after his death, the claim can be made that he occupies a unique position for a deeply political filmmaker in a country of political filmmakers, in the…
SCREEN CUBA, 15-28 March 2026, LONDON & BEYOND 