Cuba Movies

In 1923 the scientist Von Dracula invented Vampisol, a drink that allowed vampires to live in the sun. La Capa Nostra and the European Vampire Group confront each other in Havana to control the Vampisol, but Pepe, Von Dracula's nephew, sang the Vampisol formul...

Animated short film from Elpidio Valdés' series. Coronel Elpidio Valdés has to cross the Trocha de Júcaro a Morón, a really difficult militar action.

Terence Piard, its director, was 12 years old when he made this film. In 2004, he drowned on a beach in the Canary Islands as he was preparing to start his first feature film, Accidente. The sadness of his parents, the filmmaker Tomás Piard and Yolanda Samohan...

Overview of the various commemorative events marking the anniversary of July 26, featuring the visit to Cuba by Yuri Gagarin, the world's first cosmonaut.

A realistic portrayal of a August 1983 battle in the People’s Republic of Angola, when Cuban volunteer troops and their comrades-in-arms, the Armed Forces for the Liberation of Angola (FAPLA) were under a brutal attack by the UNITA forces, who were armed and o...

Animated short film from Elpidio Valdés' series. Coronel Elpidio Valdés trains his horse Palmiche. He becomes an outstanding war horse.

This film applies the six principles for composition delineated in ‘Opinions on Painting by the Monk of the Green Pumpkin’, written by the eighteenth-century Chinese painter Shih-T’ao as referenced in Raúl Ruíz’s essay For a Shamanic Cinema (for example, ‘draw...

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...

In downtown Havana, Tomás and Luis built a home in their own terms – Beatles' posters share their space with a pet chicken and a dog. Daily tasks generate a singular choreography between both men inside their own territories, introducing us the couple just day...

Jesús lives with his father on the shore of a large lake. José, his older brother, has returned home carrying with him a criminal past. This morning, Jesús accompanies him in search for a job that would help restore his reputation.

Shot in Cuba in 1961, this documentary follows a volunteer militia brigade organized in defense of the Cuban Revolution. Joris Ivens and his crew observe military training, daily life, and collective discipline among civilian volunteers. The film emphasizes po...

A report on the visit to Cuba by Valentina Tereškova, the first woman to fly in space and the first Soviet cosmonaut. As the (unidentified) narrator points out, she is a “textile worker, a communist, and a Soviet woman who, through her perseverance and the opp...

Fito Páez, soul of Argentine and Latin American rock, meets once again with Havana, city of the heart and many friends. In a confession of love, the artist reflects on a country, its history, its people, its musicians and its contradictions.

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...

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...

Loose collection of individual portraits of the inhabitants of the Isle of Pinos (now Isla de la Juventud),who tell their stories, share ideas and discuss topics such as racism and crime.

After losing his mother at 5 years old, and recently, his grandmother, 11 year old Pablo goes under the custody of his father Rogelio, who's nothing but an unscrupulous criminal.