Cuba Movies

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

Carlos lives isolated deep in the mountains of the Sierra Maestra in Cuba, after an entire life of working in the high seas. His day to day life...

In Granizo, a small town in central Cuba, Dianelis' days are prolonged by long waits. She lives between her loneliness and preparations for visits to...

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

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

Mercedes is a private music teacher who dreams of the return of her husband Ramiro, who has not stopped writing and sending her a check every month....

Record of the pilgrimage to the sanctuary of San Lázaro on December 17, 1994, during one of the deepest moments of economic and social crisis...

1:00, 2006, Cuba.

Captured entirely on phone footage, a group of Cuban artists risk everything to document their uprising against a government trying to silence them.

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...

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

Through acknowledging that hair and beauty standards are affected by old traditions of racism and oppression, young girls and boys of color are...

Vida-Arte by Ángel Luis Bárzaga Rosales, 7:08, 2009, Cuba. Silent.

The dismantling of a sugar mill in the voices and faces of its workers and the inhabitants of the surrounding village

A Cuban animation short from 1962

1:26, 2014, Cuba.

This triptych film installation dives into the world of Santeria, or Regla de Osha, an Afro Cuban religion forcibly brought from West Africa through...

2:04, 2007, Cuba.

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