Cuba Movies

A commentary on fossil fuels and climate change

Contemporary Cuban animation by Ivette Ávila.

A sunfish lives in a marine-space environment. A small and selfish being plans to capture him for his own benefit, which will bring devastating conseq...

A young circus worker falls in love with his colleague and attempts to get her attention and love.

De Armas' last production, La frontera (1967),is a cartoon with an implausible plasticity recreated from geometric figures. This anime evokes the geo...

A Cuban animation short from 1962

In the vast cosmos we are only insignificant particles. "Molecule" is a sensory journey, almost psychotropic of a universe full of anxiety. While eve...

¡Yankis, Go Home!

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 D...

Filmmaker Carolina Valencia documents her effort to become a witch doctor in the Santaria tradition as well as her struggles as a transgender person.

A unique perspective on the personal and artistic world of Manuel Mendive, prominent contemporary Cuban artist. A creator in various genres such as dr...

A short film about the director’s relationship with sewing, a craft he knew from a very young age thanks to his seamstress mother.

From a place far from home, Lara is driven by enigmatic dreams to fulfill a spiritual birth ritual that will take her and her dead aunt back to Africa...

Alex and Edith, a young couple in their 30s, live their relationship made up of small gestures and everyday life among the ruins of Cuban buildings. M...

The Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry produces this short film that tries to explain the causes of the coup, anchoring them in debt...