Cuba Movies

In September 1968, Fidel Castro comments on the suppression of the Prague Spring in surprisingly critical terms. He opens his thunderous speech with t...

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

A commentary on fossil fuels and climate change

Contemporary Cuban animation by Ivette Ávila.

A sunfish lives in a marine-space environment. A small and selfish being plans to capture him for his own benefit, which will bring devastating conseq...

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

De Armas' last production, La frontera (1967),is a cartoon with an implausible plasticity recreated from geometric figures. This anime evokes the geo...

A Cuban animation short from 1962

In the vast cosmos we are only insignificant particles. "Molecule" is a sensory journey, almost psychotropic of a universe full of anxiety. While eve...

Filmmaker Carolina Valencia documents her effort to become a witch doctor in the Santaria tradition as well as her struggles as a transgender person.

A unique perspective on the personal and artistic world of Manuel Mendive, prominent contemporary Cuban artist. A creator in various genres such as dr...

In a small Cuban town, a group of girls and boys plan to tell a story together. In this story, the children must awaken a man who’s dreaming that he b...

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...

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

1:00, 2006, Cuba.

Landi spends long stretches alone in the inhospitable Cuban swamp to the west of Zapata. There, he stocks up on what nature has to offer and poaches c...

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 su...

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