Cuba Movies

Idania and Luis receive the news that their son has murdered another boy while on guard duty in the unit where he is doing his military service. The parents’ relationship will be in crisis, based on each one’s vision of their child.

Starting in La Higuera in 1967, where Ernesto Che Guevara's body is secretly buried, *Say Good Morning to Dad* revisits this place every ten years, focusing on the impact of the event on three generations of women.

A documentary portrayal of life at Havana’s Central Park in the early 1960s. Occasional visitors, entertainers, passers-by, but most specially the elders who spend here a great part of their day, watching, remembering, musing...

Short documentary recounting the history of the Santiago de Cuba carnival.

Maria-Esther is a Black Cuban woman and a Santería practitioner on the verge of emigrating to Brazil due to the economic crisis gripping her country. In the final days before her departure—uncertain about her future and facing her sister's religious intoleranc...

Pandora, a 40-year-old transgender woman living in a residential neighbourhood in Havana, rejects Roy, the teenager who tries to win her over. While caring for a neighbour’s child, she gets an unpleasant surprise that makes her consider whether or not to give...

Under the shadow of a regime frozen in time, two young Cubans find refuge in a lair of iron and gears. There, a strange rivalry emerges against an invisible presence that, in its silence, marks every aspect of their existence.

Animated short film from Elpidio Valdés' series. General Resoplez is leading a convoy, Coronel Elpidio Valdés decide to strike back. His plan doesn't work as expected, though.

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

In this film, Sara Gómez documents the everyday life of the Isla de Pinos, the discussions about the problems of construction, the school and the leisure activities of the youth in 1968 and contextualizes these images with Frantz Fanon's thoughts about the con...

Animated short film from Elpidio Valdés' series. Coronel Elpidio Valdés and a few oh his men try to escape from a spanish cañonera, leaded by Don Cetáceo.

Compilation of 18 animated short films made by Spanish-speaking artists from around the world for the Filmoteca Maldita Short Film Festival. This collection contains very diverse works, both in technical and thematic aspects, although they all share a genuine...

In Santiago de Cuba, rival conga bands scour the sparse marketplace for materials to create show-stopping numbers for the annual Carnival competition. O’Reilly’s film follows young, innovative Lázaro, who is determined to beat “the Shark,” his older and more e...

Recreate a passage from José Martí's life during the visit to New York of the Spanish dancer known as La Bella Otero, who inspired his poem "La bailarina española" (The Spanish Dancer).

Fedele and Vittorio are two brothers who married the daughters of a rich entrepreneur, Siniscalco. But while Fedele is an irreproachable husband, Vittorio cheats on his wife and accumulates gambling debts, until one day his car is found at the bottom of a lake...

Renata is a young peasant girl from Brazil at the end of the 19th century. She lives with Salomon, the evangelical pastor of the village, and two pregnant women. Salomon performs an exorcism in which he ends up killing a Guaraní man who supposedly invaded his...

Yolanda, a Cuban woman, goes from dancing her heart out at a house party to running against the clock to find her son and skip town once a video circulates from that gathering that seems to incriminate her.

Activities of the transit authority and plan for reeducation of those punished for traffic offenses.