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...

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...

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...

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...

In a small Cuban town, a group of girls and boys plan to tell a story together. In this story, the children must awaken a man who’s dreaming...

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...

A documentary portrayal of life at Havana’s Central Park in the early 1960s. Occasional visitors, entertainers, passers-by, but most specially...

Explores the rich, but forgotten, history of the Chinese in Cuba through the stories of four elders: Pedro, Mauro, Caridad, and Georgina—and...

1:00, 2006, Cuba.

Landi spends long stretches alone in the inhospitable Cuban swamp to the west of Zapata. There, he stocks up on what nature has to offer and poaches...

Nara lives in isolation in an old house in the countryside, unable to go out during daylight. After her mother's mysterious death and her brother's...