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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… Read more
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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… Read more
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Presenting our videospot for Screen Cuba 2026
SCREEN CUBA 2026 is celebrating Resistance and Love in its programme of Cuban cinema 15-28 March in London and beyond – due to be published soon. Today we present our 2026 videospot made by our very good friends in Havana, Roberto Perez Curbelo @_potto_ and Dayron Giro @d.giro.design With the theme of the typical Havana… Read more
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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… Read more
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The Last Supper: “A masterpiece from the first image to the last”
Screen Cuba is set to bring Tomás Gutiérrez Alea’s awardwinning film The Last Supper / La última cena from 1976, to the 2026 festival this March. This powerful yet painterly drama brings a pious sugar plantation owner in 1790s Cuba to share his table at Easter with 12 enslaved men. A radical parable showing slavery… Read more
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Introducing…’Up to a Point’ by Tomás Alea
Up to a Point (Hasta Cierto Punto) was made in 1983 by one of the founders of Cuban revolutionary cinema, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea It is a clever drama about fighting machismo in all areas of Cuban society. The female lead is a dockworker, played by one of Cuba’s distinguished actors, Mirta Ibarra. It is a… Read more
SCREEN CUBA, March 2027, LONDON & BEYOND 