Cuba Movies

The Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry produces this short film that tries to explain the causes of the coup, anchoring them in debt...

A documentary portrayal of life at Havana’s Central Park in the early 1960s. Occasional visitors, entertainers, passers-by, but most specially...

Explores the rich, but forgotten, history of the Chinese in Cuba through the stories of four elders: Pedro, Mauro, Caridad, and Georgina—and...

1:00, 2006, Cuba.

Landi and Mercedes live in Cuba’s Zapata swamp, a biosphere reserve. To feed their sick child, Landi must secretly hunt crocodiles, leaving his...

A rare close-up of the Abakuá —an Afro-Cuban religious brotherhood that has been hidden from outsiders until recently. A symbol of...

Nara lives in isolation in an old house in the countryside, unable to go out during daylight. After her mother's mysterious death and her brother's...

The former prison for adolescents is converted into a "rehabilitation center" by the nascent Revolution.

Paloma, a young Cuban, seeks to be able to do what she loves the most: to sing with her hip-hop group. The evening ends at the Malecón, like...

Neri, a female researcher, works to find ways to improve the soil during a crisis that plagues papaya crops, which in turn affects the land. Using...

Analysis of the educational revolution in Cuba.

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

A left-wing intellectual, faced with the imminence of his arrest during the coup d'état against President Joao Goulart, lives anguished...