Cuba Movies

The forest is not merely a setting: it is a mirror of the soul. In this short film, the pursuit has no clear destination—it becomes a visual metaphor...

Cuban animation by Hugo Alea, based on the song by Teresita Fernandez

‘According to the World Water Forum, between 80,000 and 100,000 people die every year in Latin America as a result of contaminated consumption of this...

"Esculturas Rupestres" (Rupestrian Sculptures) was made in Jaruco Park outside of Havana. The low relief sculptures that resembled petroglyphs, were i...

A commentary on fossil fuels and climate change

This triptych film installation dives into the world of Santeria, or Regla de Osha, an Afro Cuban religion forcibly brought from West Africa through t...

The film is narratively constructed in three acts vertebrate by the memories of a club of jazz that will be demolished shortly. The first story (Alto...

4:23, 2010, Cuba.

A Cuban animation from 1966

An inspector who investigates industrial accidents writes poems, using a method he has invented himself. His creative work separates his world from th...

Kafe Negro tells the story of migrations around a small grain that became the second most important raw material on the global market. This film tells...

In 1951, German Puig founded with a group of young people the Cinemateca de Cuba with the support of the Cinémathèque française and outside the offici...

In a peaceful garden, in the middle of the night and surrounded by the hustle and bustle of the city, a woman experiences something strange.

Julito slips away every afternoon in San Tranquilino, Cuba. The hours pass slowly until it's time to return home. On an island that seems frozen in ti...

"The Sierra can only be appreciated as a whole". Thus begins Heráclito criollo, a reflection on the ways of inhabiting what man understands as "the na...

short film about Lucía, a Cuban woman who had to emigrate

In a dystopian context, a woman relives a painful event, trying to resolve it.

A Cuban animation short from 1962

Maria Gattorno, the director of the Cuban rock agency and legend amongst Havana’s rock scene, goes in depth about the importance of spaces for rock ba...

In a famous Havana cigar factory, Gricel, the reader, makes her way to her rostrum and microphone, from where she regales the workers with a specially...