Cuba Movies

As a result of the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804), many French settlers travelled to Eastern Cuba with African enslaved people to escape the revolt....

Short film from the Universidad de las Artes de Cuba (ISA/Instituto Superior de Arte).

A translation/treason. A film that tries to grasp the breath of poet José Kozer and return him to nothingness.

Mambí Elpidio Valdés rescues his horse Palmiche captured by the Spaniards.

Captured entirely on phone footage, a group of Cuban artists risk everything to document their uprising against a government trying to silence them.

In an unassuming shop, a woman’s monotonous duties veil a narrative of concealed yearnings and silent verdicts.

Miguel and his family are preparing to emigrate from Cuba to Italy where his mother already lives. While they wait, they begin to take the first step...

The Spanish are waiting for a military train that will reinforce their positions. The Liberation Army will to free the town and Captain Valdés...

Animated short film.

“The strange joy of living”, as the Italian poet Sandro Penna wrote, or how to make love until the end of our days. A middle-aged Cuban...

A masterclass in mood, the film plunges us into the darkness of the blackouts that ripple across Cuba. In the murk of shadow, the flickering of fire...

A funny film about DOGS—an analysis of the wide range of treatments, feelings, reactions, opinions, etc., Cubans have towards "man's best...

A child discovers the importance of work, however simple it may be, by understanding the usefulness of the nuts his father makes.

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...

Documentary about Cuban medical volunteers in Pakistan following the devastating earthquake of 2005.

A solitary man lives a measured and almost ritualistic life on his quiet farm, until a young couple, stranded by a broken-down motorbike, knock at...

Desire peaks and thoughts race as a man watches as another man swims naked in a pool.

Violence disguises itself as love, and a romantic relationship becomes silent and systematic torture. A moving testimony in the voice of its victim.

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