Cuba Movies

For the centenary of Cuban patriot Jose Marti, the 1950s pre-Castro dictator Batista collected funds for an official film commemoration and hired reno...

Havana, spring 1971: The poet Heberto Padilla has just been set free and appears before the Cuban Writers' Union where he pronounces a statement of "h...

Prenatal care and the advice for pregnant woman to enable a safe and healthy birth.

This popular science film from the Popular Encyclopedia series consists of three stories: 1 – How a Newspaper Is Born (a popular account of the variou...

February, 1978. Roberto and Aurelia are Cuban exiles living in New York City with their 17-year-old daughter. For ten years Roberto's been the super o...

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

An elderly man with wings is blown off course during a tropical storm in this symbolic fantasy. The Old Man lands near a Caribbean island where a poor...

Against the fascinating backdrop of an ever marvellous Havana, Vittorio Arditi De Bellis, an aging Italian orchestra conductor once celebrated for spe...

In 1967, Cuban documentary filmmaker Octavio Cortazar followed a travelling projectionist troupe whose mission was to show moving pictures to rural co...

In Miraflores, Cuba, the growing romance between Mario, a factory worker, and Yolanda, a schoolteacher, throws into relief the differences in their pe...

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

Documentary that portrays the life of a coal-mining town south of Havana, around 1955, prior to the triumph of the revolution.

Cuban children have always built chivichanas for racing, using any wood to hand and ball bearings for wheels. During the hardship of the early 1990s,...

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

What entertains children and allows them to dream in a small Cuban town? A roller skating coach from San Pablo de Yao, a small town in the Sierra Mae...

A report on the visit to Cuba by Valentina Tereškova, the first woman to fly in space and the first Soviet cosmonaut. As the (unidentified) narrator p...

Animated short film from Elpidio Valdés' series. Coronel Elpidio Valdés teaches Eutelia and Corneta the meaning that machetes have in Cuba's fight aga...

On 15th April 1961 the anti-revolutionary forces bombed the airports of San Antonio de los Baños, Ciudad Libertad, and Santiago de Cuba in an attempt...

Two Cuban ex-combatants wander in their memories while the scenario of their lives transmutes between reality and the fictions that accompany them.