Cuba Movies

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...

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

A young circus worker falls in love with his colleague and attempts to get her attention and love.

1:35, 2011, Cuba.

Bandera by Mila Janis, 1:44, 2011, Cuba

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

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...

A Cuban animation from 1966

“Leonardo Padura, a miserable and moving story” is a biographical documentary about the Cuban writer and journalist Leonardo Padura...

Evening falls and the children play in a town that seems suspended between the ruins of the past and an uncertain future.

Lisaida is a young Caribbean woman trapped in her situation as a young mother while she and her partner are still growing up.

Leroy McLucas’ expressionistic documentary, Dulce Domingo Dulce, shot in Cuba, is an almost lyrical poem about the sugar-cane workers. (Jonas...

A documentary shot in vérité style chronicles the lives of four Cuban sex workers who set out to resolve their touching and at times...

Cuba's street numerology, gambling and symbols combine in an attempt to find meaning in everyday reality.

A group of sailors are carrying contraband. But inside the ship, a group is mutinying to take over the cargo.

Leoneidi is only 12 years old and already a mother. She spent pretty much her entire pregnancy in hospital, she says with a deadpan expression, with...

Ermitis Blanco is a prolific Cuban illustrator, cartoonist, and animator who has managed design concepts for many films and advertising from his...

A commentary on fossil fuels and climate change

Contemporary Cuban animation by Ivette Ávila.