Cuba Movies

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

Cuba is not a country for young gays. Teen rent boy Reinier falls in love with a mate in the slum soccer field in their neighbourhood in Havana. Although obsessed with moneymaking to hold up his baby, teen wife, and wife's grandma, gambler Reinier always fails...

A left-wing intellectual, faced with the imminence of his arrest during the coup d'état against President Joao Goulart, lives anguished moments of definition. To the collapse of his small universe is added a conjugal confrontation that unmasks him mercilessly.

Through dreams and reality, a Cuban woman learns of the ties her great-grandparents had with the Independents of Color, a political party formed in 1908.

Backstage musical: showbiz couple fusses and breaks up, then resolve their problems just before the end.

A gay photographer seeks to dispel in God, the doubts about his undocumented lover. His torment leads him to create a secret exhibition funded by his best friend, a prestigious doctor who struggles with a strong addition. Everything will take an unexpected tur...

Juan is dead. Surprisingly, he is given an opportunity: to relive a moment of his past life, but it will not be an ordinary moment.

Javier Argüelles, an opportunistic young man from Cuban middle class, survives all kind of political changes in Havana, from 1932 to 1959, while his brother Darío is persecuted and killed because of his leftist ideas.

Fascinated tourists stroll through the GDR museum as if it were an amusement park, indifferent to the painful stories that occurred under the communist regime. Their casual attraction to vintage, their comfortable forgetfulness and their need for utopia make t...

When backpacker millennials Benjamin, Judith and Katharina travel to Cuba to find Katharina’s missing brother Wanja, they become more and more entrapped within a maze of delusions, sincere feelings and sexual desires: It begins as an exciting adventure and tur...

Miguel, a young singer, loses his job when the quartet he was part of breaks up. He forms a new quartet with a fresh approach to Cuban music. They quickly rise to the top of the charts, but conflicts between the members lead to their early demise.

Frustrated with their lack of upward mobility, some young Italians move to Cuba to start a wi-fi café and attempt to build a new life.

At the urging of a socialist fellow Australian, filmmaker David Bradbury travels to Cuba and documents the current economic, social and cultural realities and disappointments of post-revolutionary Cuba.

Landi and Mercedes live in Cuba’s Zapata swamp, a biosphere reserve. To feed their sick child, Landi must secretly hunt crocodiles, leaving his wife and son behind for days on end.

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

On the banks of the Almendares River, the inhabitants of El Fanguito have carved out their marginal space in the heart of Havana. The transformations brought about by the Revolution have been reflected in the neighborhood, but always from its marginality. Test...

Co-director and protagonist Abraham Jiménez, one of the most important voices of Cuban independent journalism, is expecting a baby with his wife, producer/co-director Claudia Calviño. As they become more and more exhausted and depressed from the constant haras...

An exuberant dancer decides to change her lifestyle after meeting a millionaire.

A Russian Literature professor at the University of Havana is ordered to work as a translator for child victims of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster when they are sent to Cuba for medical treatment. Based on a true story.