Programme 2024
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Screen Cuba presents: Strawberry and Chocolate (1993) by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea & Juan Carlos Tabio
The late Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, often cited as Cuba’s greatest director, worked alongside Juan Carlos Tabío to create this Oscar-nominated modern classic. The film charts the relationship of David, a young Communist student, with a flamboyant gay Catholic writer, Diego. A Communist Party stalwart entices David to spy on Diego, to entrap him. Instead, David becomes…
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Screen Cuba presents: José Martí, The Eye of the Canary by Fernando Pérez
An excellent example of an historical drama, a genre in which Cuban filmmakers excel. The Eye of the Canary is inspired by the little-known early years of José Martí, the great 19th century Cuban poet and activist, father of Cuban independence and national hero. The film tracks the boy’s growing political awareness, alternating between a grim realism…
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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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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…
SCREEN CUBA, 15-28 March 2026, LONDON & BEYOND 