Cuba Movies

When you are married for 50 years you look back on life rather than look forward to it. However when this couple with an empty nest have a desire to...

Each year, nearly 450,000 Cubans leave their country. They cross the sea to escape a worn-out political regime, shortages, and hurricanes. In Havana,...

A short film about the director’s relationship with sewing, a craft he knew from a very young age thanks to his seamstress mother.

A life of political commitment led filmmaker Michèle Firk from the underground support network of the Algerian FLN to the guerrilla struggle...

A Sunday afternoon in the neighbourhood: apparently nothing happens. In this stillness, humorous observations unfold, in which the trivial becomes...

Documentary film on the end of the Vietnam War, the fall of Saigon and the departure of American troops, as well as a tracing of 4000 years of...

Rolando Díaz's comedic Melodrama follows Esperanza, a dying newscaster, desperate to have a child through whatever means necessary - even if...

An artful exploration of Havana’s bicycle culture as this transportation mode re-emerges as a critical resource for the future of the island.

A tribute to Santiago Álvarez, a great innovator in the language of Cuban newsreel images, presented by the ICAIC over the course of thirty...

Gabriel de la Concepcion Valdes (Plácido) is accused of leading a conspiracy against the Spanish colonial government. Preoccupied by the...

De Armas' last production, La frontera (1967), is a cartoon with an implausible plasticity recreated from geometric figures. This anime evokes the...

From a place far from home, Lara is driven by enigmatic dreams to fulfill a spiritual birth ritual that will take her and her dead aunt back to...

Life is Dance follows the stories of six main protagonists, across three generations. Ordinary Cubans with one thing in common, their passion for...

Linda and Antonio are seven years old and live in Havana. They are best friends. But their time together is limited, because Linda is leaving Cuba.

Lillah Halla asked five Cubans to dance in front of the camera to music that sums up their lives at that moment. The songs are inaudible to the...

A close-up examination of laborers creating Cuban cigars intercut with artistic advertising labels and postures for those cigars. Silent with musical...

A man is released from prison, and after 18 years, returns to his village. But in this village, time, in many ways, has stood still. The time served...

A bourgeois Cuban family of aristocratic origin locks itself into its mansion when the Cuban Revolution comes to power, waiting for the new regime to...