Cuba Movies

To understand the history of Cuban rum is to understand the history of Cuba itself. From belief systems to music to revolution, rum has been there,...

A short 1962 black & white gem by Cuban director Humberto Solás, with Hector Veita, about creating the Escuelas Nacionales de Arte (National...

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...

Through acknowledging that hair and beauty standards are affected by old traditions of racism and oppression, young girls and boys of color are...

A documentary short film (as well as a social project) shot in Havana, which depicts today's Cuban skate scene through the eyes of a kid who feels...

Through different experiences and memories from inhabitants of the Cuban city of Holguín, this is a documentary about how soccer works both as...

The fifties in Cuba, at the time of the "dias felices", the happy days, the American mobsters were the kings of the country, Hemingway lived there,...

A children’s short directed by one of the most well-known figures in Cuban animation.

A meditative observation of the poetry present in the world of Pedrito, an elderly man of the mountains and relic of a time that no longer exists,...

The short film El primer delegado (The First Delegate), made by a group of ICAIC directors, recounts the moments in which José Martí...

In Cuba the flight of fireflies in the night is said to be like a meeting of miniature specters, weakened fires, or wandering souls. Isabel invokes...

An intimate and revealing autoethnographic documentary about uprootedness, motherhood, love of film, friendship and freedom. Two filmmakers who have...

The optimism and pride of work taken by a group of sun-drenched guajiros harvesting corn with their bare hands, is belied by the songs they sing...

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

An illustration of the difficulties women encounter when they seek to achieve economic integration and equality with men in a country at the height...

A radio plant transmits that Havana and nearby towns have fallen. Hundreds of young people dance in a bunker and a man whispers verses from the Bible...

"...it had no plot. The film was more a study of people's behavior, shot in 16mm with a hand-held camera, which was hidden most of the time. In its...