Cuba Movies

In the vast cosmos we are only insignificant particles. "Molecule" is a sensory journey, almost psychotropic of a universe full of anxiety. While everything outside looks beautiful, there are demons that haunt you inside.

Through different experiences and memories from inhabitants of the Cuban city of Holguín, this is a documentary about how soccer works both as a means to enjoy the body and for the building of social bonds.

2:21, 2012, Cuba.

The will and determination of Cuban women in the defense of the Revolution. Their confrontation with physical, psychological and social tensions during a military training of the MTT.

The wacky mechanical adventures of one Professor Bluff.

A documentary shot in vérité style chronicles the lives of four Cuban sex workers who set out to resolve their touching and at times humorous, predicaments in Havana's gay underground. The film provides an unflinching, first-ever look at a growing community of...

Carlos, a daytime bike taxi driver in San Antonio de los Baños, immerses himself in his true passion at night: cinema. Under the pseudonym "Charlies David," he writes scripts and poems in his humble home, away from the world's gaze.

As a massive hurricane bears down on Cuba, as society collapses around them, a cowboy and his mare mourn the loss of her stillborn foal. While the herd scatters into the wild brush and the sky darkens with fury, they hold on to a fragile rhythm of care and rou...

The dark forest is the record of a long journey that connects two funerary rituals in Cuba: the state burial to say goodbye to the fallen in the Angolan war and a spiritist rite to welcome the spirits of the past that return to the world of the living. These e...

Leoneidi is only 12 years old and already a mother. She spent pretty much her entire pregnancy in hospital, she says with a deadpan expression, with no support from her parents. Now she lives with the father of the child, who constantly gives her orders about...

Wilmar disappeared eleven years ago. Now his twin brother has to give certainty of his death to Maúca.

Ermitis Blanco is a prolific Cuban illustrator, cartoonist, and animator who has managed design concepts for many films and advertising from his Cuban house production Ñooo. Ermitis began his career as a magazine illustrator, then studied in the Animation Stud...

The film prendas — ngangas — enquisos — machines addresses the question of how we can reconnect the more-than-human with the historical, specifically the post colonial space, without deepening violations already inflicted on both humans and nonhumans?

Cuban animation by Hugo Alea, based on the song by Teresita Fernandez

1:44, 2021, Cuba.

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 time, he’s the only one who holds on.

Evening falls and the children play in a town that seems suspended between the ruins of the past and an uncertain future.