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Music Fund for Cuba donates supplies for Cuban film makers
Boxes of much needed materials for the Cuban Film Institute are on their way to Havana. They have been donated by one of Screen Cuba’s sponsors, The Music Fund for Cuba. The charity responded to an appeal by ICAIC’s restoration archive team for specific items which are impossible to source in Cuba thanks to the…
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Film by Cuban children came to Britain
Several hundred children greeted the Cuban short Una Aventura de Elpido Valdés by Juan Padrón with plenty of laughs about its slapstick jokes and humorous escapades when it was screened at the Children’s International Film Festival @childrensfilmfestival in Kingston, UK in June. This 1974 animation about a popular anti-colonial hero, loved by Cuban children, was…
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Cuban Film Institute recognises Screen Cuba
Screen Cuba has received a special award from the Cuban Film Institute (ICAIC) and we are delighted to receive it. In presenting the award to Screen Cuba coordinators Trish Meehan and Dodie Weppler in recognition of the Festival’s success in the past two years, Cuban Ambassador Ismara Vargas Walter explained how the Festival played a…
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Screen Cuba wraps up for 2025 – “together we can do amazing things”
After screening another selection of incredible films from Cuba in London and beyond, the 2025 festival is over! We are delighted that we have had such positive feedback about the programme, and increased our audience by more than a third over last year in London alone. It once again confirms our view that UK audiences…
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Padrón book captures “the identity of an entire people”
This year Screen Cuba will give a special place to the work of Cuban director Juan Padrón (1947-2020), the island’s revered godfather of animation. Not only are we screening two of his first animations, we are welcoming his daughter Silvia Padrón, who is working to preserve his legacy, and we are also making available for…
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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…
SCREEN CUBA, 15-28 March 2026, LONDON & BEYOND 