Cuba Movies

Si me Comprendieras refers to the tradition of Bolero, as the original intention of the director was to make a musical film. This proved to be...

Two homelands have I, Cuba and the night.

In a faraway region, a family transforms everyday actions into rituals. Their circular existence is focused on the father, around whom the limbo of...

Daniela's voice must be fully rested before she's able to use it again. Given the adults' inability to handle the situation, her classmates see the...

A malignant force analyzes the people living in a house. They don't seem to notice their fate, except for and old man who is sure that finishing his...

A lagoon in Cuba suddenly dries up. All that remains of this lost landscape is an old painting with faded contours. This is the starting point for...

An experiment with celluloid images, based on discards from the short Blanca Putica. A Girl in Love (1973).

Legendary rumba musician Alberto Zayas serves as a guide for this vibrant journey through Cuban musical history and culture. The short features...

Columbus discovered America and also tobacco. The Indian was exterminated but tobacco persisted.

During a documentary residency in the Sierra Maestra, Cuba, a filmmaker befriends Sara, a seven-year-old girl who moves between San Pablo de Yao and...

The "edad de la peseta" or silly age is the term used in Cuba for the pre-adolescent period from the age of seven to the age of eleven. Set in 1958...

Life and lives in New York City, sights and sounds of its streets and its people, at the time of man's first landing on the Moon.

Guided by a book by Néstor Almendros that he acquired clandestinely in Havana in the 1980s, Ricardo Vega filmed in 8 mm and edited the images...

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...

An educational cartoon about what to do when mom is not at home and dad is in charge.

A short poetic evocation by Sara Gómez of Isla de Pinos, the island where Fidel Castro was imprisoned by Batista, where the revolution builds...

"...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...