Havana Glasgow Film Festival Special online screenings in collaboration with Curate-It Screening Dates19 – 29 November 2026, from 6pm. Films in English and Gaelic, with subtitles as available. Synopsis Three … Continue reading Online Programme: Literacy, Language and Land
Monday 23 November 2026 18:00 – 19:50 I Glasgow Film Theatre (GFT)Irís de Oliveira & Catherine Murphy | Brazil / USA 2025 | Documentary1h 10m | Portuguese & English with … Continue reading Reading the World / Lendo o Mundo + Q&A
Two events. One great evening. EVENT 1 Cuban Culture, Creativity and Resilience 17:00–20:00 EVENT 2 Cuban Cinema, History and Latin American Sounds 20:00–22:45 Make a night of it! ♥ You … Continue reading A Night of Cuban Cinema & Culture
Thursday 19 November 2026 20:00 – 22:40 | Glasgow Film Theatre (GFT) Gordon Main | UK 2024 | Documentary Drama | 1h 50m English | N/C 15+ Winner of Best … Continue reading Comrade Tambo’s London Recruits
Thursday 19 November 2026 18:00 – 19:30 | Glasgow City ChambersA special Reception celebrating the enduring friendship between the twin cities of Glasgow and Havana.
Sunday 4 October 2026 18:00 – 19:20 | London Latino Film Festival | ICA London | Eirene Houston & Hugo Rivalta | Cuba 2025 | Documentary | 80 min | … Continue reading Life is Dance + Filmmaker Introduction
Monday 14 September 2026 17:45 – 20:30 I Advanced Research Centre (ARC)Three films from Cuba, Mexico and Scotland exploring the links between language, learning, cultural identity and place. From Cuba’s … Continue reading Literacy, Language and Land & Q+A
𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗲𝗿𝗲: 𝗙𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗹 𝗖𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗼: ¡𝗩𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗼𝘀! + 𝗤&𝗔
As Cuba grapples with economic hardship, blackouts, and the continuing impact of U.S. sanctions, a group of international solidarity activists travel to the island as part of the Convoy Nuestra … Continue reading Cuba: Solidarity vs. Sanctions
We’ve had an amazing week of events during the Havana Glasgow Film Festival, and we want to share some highlights with you. Here are a few moments captured by our … Continue reading 10 Years of Havana Glasgow Film Festival – Photo Highlights
Cuba has a history of international solidarity, including sending doctors around the globe and training doctors in its International School of Medicine. On Saturday 15 November, marking 50 years since … Continue reading Cuba and Vietnam: Standing Shoulder to Shoulder In Adversity
Tuesday 11 November 2025
18:15 – 18:30 I CCA Courtyard
A welcome to our 10th Festival by Eirene Houston and Hugo Rivalta.
Tuesday 11 November 2025
18:30 – 19:15 I CCA Gallery
Visual multimedia projection of footage from Dust and Metal by Esther Johnson – an archival cinematic journey of cycling in Vietnam.
Tues 11 November 2025
19:30 – 21:45 | CCA Glasgow
A programme of short documentaries – bicycle-powered – relating to bikes, exploring resilience, activism, ingenuity and the joy of two wheels, from Cuba to Germany to Scotland!
Wednesday 12 November 2025
18:00 – 19.30 | CCA
A clever, self-reflective satire about the battle of the sexes in contemporary Cuba.
Wednesday 12 November 2025
20:00 – 22:15 | CCA Glasgow
UK premiere of the restored version of this classic film which follows a bourgeois family living in the Cuban countryside who decide to seal their mansion off from the world and the rising 1959 revolution.
Thursday 13 November 2025
18:00 – 19:30 I City Chambers I Invite only
Celebrating 850 years of Glasgow, 23 years of Havana – Glasgow twinning and 10 years of Havana Glasgow Film Festival, with the Cuban Ambassador and Vietnamese Ambassador in attendance as guests of honour.
Thursday 13 November 2025
20:00 – 22:00 I Glasgow Film Theatre
UK Premiere of award-winning documentary by Festival Directors Eirene Houston and Hugo Rivalta
Friday 14 November 2025
17:00 – 18:15 I CCA
A chance to socialise and network with other filmmakers based in Glasgow, as well as HGFF Festival Directors and our special guest Cuban filmmakers.
Friday 14 November 2025
18:30 – 21:30 | CCA Glasgow
Double event presenting the The Last Supper, where a count’s misguided attempt to evangelize his slaves triggers a rebellion, followed by…
Friday 14 November 2025
22:00 – 00:00 I CCA
An eclectic, powerful quartet for the celebration of 850 years of Glasgow and 10 years of HGFF!
Saturday 15 November 2025
11:30-12:30 I CCA Glasgow
A whirlwind tour of Cuba bursting with color, rhythm, and fun, as the Gonzalez sisters uncover family roots and share the island’s energy, perfect for all ages.
Saturday 15 November 2025
2025 13:00–14:30 | CCA Glasgow
Tracing Argentinian doctor Alina Sánchez’s revolutionary journey from Patagonia, via Cuba, to Rojava, where she provided radical care with the Kurdish Women’s Liberation Movement.
Saturday 15 November 2025
14:45–16:15 | CCA Glasgow
A selection of archival newsreels on Cuba’s take on world events taking place in the 1960s and 1970s, restored by The Vietnamese Institute…
Saturday 15 November 2025
16:30–17:30 | CCA Cinema
A searing masterpiece of Vietnamese cinema that wields its gentle title as a weapon of social critique.
Saturday 15 November 2025
17:30–19:00 | CCA Glasgow
A celebration of Vietnamese culture, plus a live poetic response to archival Vietnamese posters.
Saturday 15 November 2025
2025 19:10 – 22:15 | CCA
Three films made by, or about, Cuban filmmaker Santiago Alvarez, followed by Q+A with his son Osian Alvarez, alongside Hugo Rivalta.
Saturday 15 November
22:00 – 12:00 | CCA Cinema
Join us in the Third Eye Bar with DJ A Cut Above, who will be playing a selection of Cuban, Latin and funky grooves.
Sunday 16 November 2025
15:00 – 16:30 I The Boardwalk
Celebrate 3 Years of Cuban-Scottish Feminist Filmmaking
Join us for a special screening marking three years of powerful…
Sunday 16 November 2025
17:00 – 19:00 | The Boardwalk
¡Quba! documents Cuba’s extraordinary journey toward LGBTQIA+ equality, culminating in one of the most unexpected civil rights victories of the 21st century…
When we launched Havana Glasgow Film Festival in 2015, we had no idea how big a journey lay ahead, until someone said ‘you’re brave!’. Yet thanks to our funders, our … Continue reading Welcome to our 10th Festival!
Competencia de Cortometrajes 2025, Festival de Cine Havana – Glasgow
Cuba Sostenible: Historias de Comunidades
Short Film Competition 2025, Havana – Glasgow Film Festival
Sustainable Cuba: Stories from Communities
By Brian Beadie “Creation must be subversive. We are acrobats in a grand circus, we only want to live on the tightrope, without a wire, and juggle our skins.” – … Continue reading Juliet of the Spirits
Glasgow City Council Civic Reception – 2024📸 All photos by Dougie Souness – http://www.nohalfmeasures.photography ©
“Why don’t we do a film and you direct it?” And I said, ‘’Why not?’’ I was having a midlife crisis, so
said “Let’s do it!” But I had no formation or grounds as a filmmaker, although I’d been on
lots of shoots, for example for Fernando Perez, as a witness, as a scriptwriter who happens
to be there.”
