Cuba Movies

The memory of a friend who is no longer around torments Boloy’s thoughts. The key player on the Cuban volleyball team, Boloy tries to return to morning training despite the pain of the loss – because he knows that his life must go on.

Mexican feature film

Full-length documentary about the life, passion and example of Pablo de la Torriente Brau, built from testimonial elements and reconstructions of fiction, and trying to incorporate all facets of his life: combative and innovative athlete and journalist, studen...

Various family members attend a wake in a crumbling national funeral home to grieve the loss of their eldest patriarch, a patriot and proponent for the Cuban communist revolution until his death.

After two years in jail, El Isleño returns to the island of La Fe, ruled by the dictator Francisco Gavilán. He arrives with a cinematograph and exhibits "Robin Hood" to the people. The next day the bridge that communicates La Fe to the mainland has been destro...

After years of not seeing each other, Irene meets her ex at a restaurant and he tries an unexpected rapprochement.

In a small Cuban fishing village, Joel, the oldest brother in a traditional family, is heartbroken when his fiancée marries someone her family prefers. He moves to Havana, hoping to find a new life. Gorgeously photogenic, Havana and the Cuban countryside are e...

A young sociologist returns to Nuevitas, his hometown, to investigate the transformations taking place there, brought about by the advance of the revolutionary process. Disagreeing with the way his predecessor worked, he tries to change it and discovers the co...

Santiago de Cuba, January 19th, 1819. Coming from Lausanne, Enrique Faber, a Swiss doctor and surgeon, arrives on the island, a Spanish province, hoping to find his son, who has been kidnapped…

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

A love letter that unites Brazil and Cuba. In the film Travessias, the director goes on a long journey seeking to understand the feelings and transformations of a person who is close to her. On this path of doubts and concerns, she meets Justin, a trans man wh...

An intellectual leaves the Cuban revolution and 'underdevelopment' behind only to find himself at odds with the ambiguities of his new life in the 'developed' world. A portrait of alienation, of an outsider with no clear-cut politics or ideology. A stranger in...

A short film about Cuban women, post-revolution.

A man seeks help to solve a problem with his car and begins to delve into a dark and mysterious neighborhood where the places and characters seem to come from another time.

Nicolás Guillén Landrián was one of the most avant-garde Cuban filmmakers of the 1960s and 1970s. However, his work was not properly appreciated and he was relegated to ostracism. In 2022, some of his documentaries began to be restored. While documenting this...

Documentary that reflects the development of tobacco production in Pinar del Río.

Focuses on the history of foreign intervention in Laos, first by France and then by the United States. It shows how the liberation forces of Laos, under continuous U.S. bombing, were able to run an entire society in hidden caves and tunnels. Through the leader...

The Oscar-winning filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman have become treasured musicologists, first with their loving biography LINDA RONSTADT: THE SOUND OF MY VOICE (2019) and then with TAYLOR MAC’S 24-DECADE HISTORY OF POPULAR MUSIC (2022). Now, they tu...