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SUNDAY 16 MARCH Screen Cuba presents: Clandestinos
It’s Havana, a year before the 1959 revolution, and a group of young people are fighting against President Batista’s tyranny in a clandestine action cell. A dramatic story of love, solidarity, illusions and sacrifice based on real events. An incredible first film, with a tight script like a thriller, by the most important current Cuban Read more
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Screen Cuba 2025 presents: The Isle of Pines Trilogy by Sara Gómez
Sara Gómez, the first female director at the Cuban film institute (ICAIC), passionately explores everyday life with all its turmoil in the revolution’s early days. She was committed to the revolution and to changing society by creating a new cinematic language that addressed the themes and intersections of race, class and gender. Screen Cuba 2025 Read more
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It’s time to reveal our Screen Cuba 2025 Festival poster!
Our fantastic poster for this year’s festival is designed by another young and brilliant Cuban graphic designer. Roberto Pérez Curbelo (aka Potto) studied visual communication design at the Superior Institute of Design of the University of Havana (ISDi). He grew up in Cerro, Havana and loved Cuban cartoons. He now makes graphics for visual arts Read more
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Screen Cuba 2025 postcards have arrived!
The 2nd edition of Screen Cuba film festival is coming 16-29 March 2025 to London and beyond. If you can help distribute our postcards please get in touch! Screen Cuba celebrates Cuban cinema, looking at the achievements and challenges of the Cuban people through the lenses of their filmmakers since the 1959 Revolution, and presents Read more
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ScreenCuba25 presents: Tomás Gutiérrez Alea’s iconic film ‘Memories of Underdevelopment’
This March Screen Cuba film festival will present the iconic 1968 masterpiece of Cuban cinema ‘Memories of Underdevelopment’ (Memorias de subdesarrollo). Read more here about the director Tomás Gutiérrez Alea and the film. “For a long time, every time they asked me about my profession, I was ashamed to say that I was a film Read more
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Message from our patron MICHAEL CHANAN for Screen Cuba 2025
“Cuban cinema was created by the Revolution. Looking back over the decades, one of the striking things about it is that the vitality and iconoclasm of its first brave years remain inspirational for subsequent generations, who bring their own concerns but do not repudiate its aesthetic heritage, which is on display in this festival. Here, Read more
SCREEN CUBA, 15-28 March 2026, LONDON & BEYOND 