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Welcome to our 5th Havana Glasgow Film Festival! Twinned in 2002, our two vibrant cities share a richness of culture and identity that we invite you to celebrate with film, … Continue reading HGFF 2019 programme of events

24  October, Thursday 18:00 -20:00 Kinning Park Complex In partnership with Küche and Glasgow based Cuban cook Dani Acosta, join us for a community meal, sharing Cuban food, its flavours, … Continue reading A Cuban Food Revolution

02 November, Saturday Exhibition Opening: Como Veo Cuba/ As I See Cuba  13:00 – 15:00 Trongate 103 Photography exhibition celebrating 500 years of Havana, from the personal perspectives of Roberto … Continue reading Exhibition Opening: Como Veo Cuba / As I See Cuba

Sunday 3 November 2019 18:30-23:30 Boteca Join HGFF 19 at this Special Salsa Party at the exotic Boteco do Brasil, to launch our 5th edition of Havana Glasgow Film Festival. … Continue reading HGFF Launch Party with Tumbao Salsa School

06 November, Wednesday Roberto Chile / 2011 / Documentary / N/C / 25mins 18:30-20:30 Unite Office Roberto Chile presents his documentary film on Alberto Korda, (1928-2001) a chronicler of the … Continue reading Sencillamente Korda / Simply Korda

08  November, Friday 18:00-21:00 Refuweegee Havana-born Alejandro Valera has directed music videos for some of Cuba’s top salsa bands and has just finished his first documentary film – De Vuelta … Continue reading Cuban Music Video Production – Behind the Scenes

09 November, Saturday 13:30-14:30 Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum Bring the family along and dance to energetic Cuban rhythms at our well-loved annual dance workshop for all ages. Drop in … Continue reading Children’s Salsa with Tumbao Salsa School

09 November, Saturday 16:00-18:00 Refuweegee A talk by Glaswegian music and film journalist Brian Beadie, followed by discussion. Brian will trace the history of radical film from the 20s until the … Continue reading Film Can Change the World

10 November, Sunday 13:30-15:30 Refuweegee A DOCMA is a 5-minute documentary film made by 5 filmmakers in 5 different documentary styles. The process is designed to get our creative juices … Continue reading Workshop: DOCMA Filmmaking Challenge

10  November, Sunday 16:00-18:00 Refuweegee A unique chance to learn about the filmmaking industry in Cuba, from the perspective of professional screenwriter Hugo Rivalta (also Co-Director of HGFF) Find out … Continue reading Talk/Workshop: Screenwriting – a Cuban perspective – Hugo Rivalta

12  November, Tuesday Jorge Perugorría / 2015 / Fiction / 18 / 90mins 18:15-20:15 GFT In collaboration with Africa in Motion Based on a story by Miguel Barnet, Fatima tells … Continue reading Fátima o El Parque de la Fraternidad / Fatima of Fraternity Park

13 November, Wednesday 10:10-12:00 CCA Cinema Ian Padron / 2011 / Fiction / N/C / 95mins School Screening, contact us for more info: info@hgfilmfest.com Tracing the lives of two Cuban … Continue reading Habanastation / Havana Station – School Screening

13 November, Wednesday 17.30-19:00 CCA Saramago Bar Join us before the evening screening to welcome our Cuban guests to Glasgow and hear an informal introductory talk by Julie Valdes from … Continue reading Meet our Cuban Guests

13  November, Wednesday 19:30-21:30 CCA Cinema Classic Short and Short films from world-renowned International Cuban Film School (EICTV) + Panel discussion on challenges for film / art students post-graduation. 17.30-19:00 … Continue reading Classic and new Cuban Shorts

13 November, Wednesday 13:00-14:30 CCA Cinema Screening and presentation of new short films by Glasgow schoolchildren Camera Chica is a community-based film education programme, developed in Cuba. After a visit … Continue reading Camera Chica Glasgow and Camera Chica Cuba – invite only

14 November, Thursday 10:10-12:00 CCA Cinema School Screening School Screening, contact us for more info: info@hgfilmfest.com Ian Padron / 2011 / Fiction / N/C / 95mins Tracing the lives of … Continue reading Habanastation / Havana Station – School Screening

14 November, Thursday 18:00-19:30 City Chambers Celebrating the twin cities of Havana and Glasgow

14 November, Thursday Tomás Gutiérrez Alea / 1994 / Fiction / 18 / 108mins 20:15-22:45 GFT This Oscar-nominated groundbreaking film tells the story of two men – one gay, the … Continue reading Fresa y Chocolate / Strawberry and Chocolate 25th Anniversary – Q&A Stars Mirtha Ibarra, Vladimir Cruz

15 November, Friday 11:00-13:00 Cineworld Lecture by Brian Beadie, hosted by GSA

15 November, Friday 17:00-18:00 CCA Saramago Bar Join us before the evening screening to welcome our Cuban guests to Glasgow and hear an informal introductory talk by Julie Valdes from … Continue reading Cuban Social

15 November, Friday Alejandro Valera Losa / 2019 / Documentary / 16+ / 80mins 18:15-19:55  CCA Cinema Acclaimed Cuban salsa band El Niño y La Verdad return to their roots … Continue reading De Vuelta Al Barrio / Back to the Neighbourhood – World Premiere

20.15 – 22:00 CCA Cinema Jorge Perugorría /2012 / Fiction / N/C 18+/ 95mins A dark comedy about contemporary Cuba, where people are forced to go to extreme measures to … Continue reading Se Vende / For Sale

16 November, Saturday 10:00-11:30 CCA Theatre Inspired by footage from the 1950s Cuban filmmaker Sara Gómez of people making and playing their own instruments from household objects and scrap materials, … Continue reading Workshop: Make and play your own Cuban instrument – for families

16 November, Saturday 11.30-12.30 CCA Cinema Lourdes Prieto / 2015 / Doc / 12 / 44mins Our special guest at HGFF19, Mirtha Ibarra is one of Cuba’s greatest and best-loved … Continue reading Mirtha

16 November, Saturday, 12:30-13:30 CCA Theatre Screening and feedback session of the short documentary films made as part of the DOCMA filmmaking challenge. Screening open to all.

16 November, Saturday 15:30-17:30 CCA Cinema Mirtha Ibarra / 2008 / Documentary / 15 / 90mins A documentary about revolutionary filmmaker Tomas Alea – known as Titón – written and … Continue reading Titón: De La Habana a Guantanamera

16 November, Saturday 18.30 -20.10pm CCA Cinema Tomás Gutiérrez Alea /1985 / Fiction / 68mins A clever, self-reflective satire about the battle of the sexes in contemporary Cuba. Oscar, an … Continue reading Hasta Cierto Punto / Up to a Certain Point

16 November, Saturday 20.30- 22.00 CCA Cinema Tomás Gutiérrez Alea / 1966 / Fiction / 85mins La Muerte de un Burócrata is a 1966 comedy film by Cuban director Tomás … Continue reading La Muerte de un Burócrata / Death of a Bureaucrat

It began in Africa…pretty much every musical genre we have, that is. We all know how all the great modern American – and therefore, by extension, Western – musical genres, … Continue reading That’s Our Jam – Afro Beats of Cuba

A rumpled man in a trenchcoat sits in a darkened room, lit only by flashing street lights through slatted blinds. We can hear the rain outside, then the sound of … Continue reading Dancing in the Dark

Friday, 17 May 2019, from 19:30-21:30 @ CCA Glasgow Tickets available on Usheru. BOOK NOW Director: Arturo Santana (2015) Running time 105 min. On December 31, 1958, a detective is … Continue reading Bailando con Margot / Dancing with Margot