Cuba Movies

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...

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...

Paloma, a young Cuban, seeks to be able to do what she loves the most: to sing with her hip-hop group. The evening ends at the Malecón, like...

Neri, a female researcher, works to find ways to improve the soil during a crisis that plagues papaya crops, which in turn affects the land. Using...

Analysis of the educational revolution in Cuba.

A translation/treason. A film that tries to grasp the breath of poet José Kozer and return him to nothingness.

Enrique Favez was a surgeon in Cuba from 1819 to 1823. He was the husband of Juana Favez. He was also a woman.

A documentary about the CDRs in Cuba

Documentary about Cuban medical volunteers in Pakistan following the devastating earthquake of 2005.

One of the first documentaries of its kind, Not Because Fidel Castro Says So is a candid look at the situation for Cuban LGBTQ people. It examines...

Documentary on Cuban music, rumba, regla de ocha and Abakuá.

A commemoration of the 6th anniversary of the beginning of the Cuban revolution. 500,000 campesinos invited to celebrate the occasion pour into...