Cuba Movies

Cuban peasants wield machetes in a violent uprising against Spanish authorities in the late 19th century.

Shot in Cuba in 1961, this documentary follows a volunteer militia brigade organized in defense of the Cuban Revolution. Joris Ivens and his crew...

The real and imaginary life of a woman. Everything happens within a single universe: her home.

A chronicle of Fidel Castro's two-month tour of ten East European and African nations in mid-1972.

The New Tango (El Nuevo Tango) was not shown in Argentina for a long time as it deals with the ascent of Argentinean president Hector Campora in May...

A young philology student interviews José Lezama Lima for his thesis. In his confrontation with the writer, he changes his point of view until...

People dance during a performance of the Orchestra "The Afrokán". The film was banned, at the beginning of the Cuban revolution, for depicting...

An intellectual leaves the Cuban revolution and 'underdevelopment' behind only to find himself at odds with the ambiguities of his new life in the...

Animated short film from Elpidio Valdés' series. Coronel Elpidio Valdés and a few oh his men try to escape from a spanish...

Loose collection of individual portraits of the inhabitants of the Isle of Pinos (now Isla de la Juventud), who tell their stories, share ideas and...

A girl longs to approach the light, but her mother, a dweller in the shadows, prevents her from doing so.

“I navigate the memory of Cuba. Without maps, without compass, with a camera.” With these words, Marcos Pimentel begins his film, a...

Life and lives in New York City, sights and sounds of its streets and its people, at the time of man's first landing on the Moon.

Animated short film from Elpidio Valdés' series. Coronel Elpidio Valdés trains his horse Palmiche. He becomes an outstanding war horse.

Olga and Enrique live alone in the house they have shared since their wedding, 60 years ago. Faced with the uncertainty of the present, his life has...

Havana is occupied by foreign forces and on the edge of civil war. Lazaro, a kid from the slums, walks us through his streets and reveals the chaos...

The misdeeds of a güije, a Cuban mythological character, and his subsequent relationship with the present.

An immigrant mother writes and narrates letters to the family she left behind.