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
Read in English Por Roberto Zurbano Torres* Sara Gómez Yera (La Habana, 1943-1974) fue una cineasta excepcional en el contexto del nuevo cine cubano y latinoamericano que surge en medio … Continue reading Sara Gomez: Una artista negra entre el misterio y el silencio clasicos
Fri 2 Nov | Centre for Contemporary Arts 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm International school screening event – Glasgow/Valencia/Cuba HGFF teams up with Glasgow Valencia Erasmus Plus and British Council … Continue reading International school screening event: Glasgow / Valencia / Cuba
Sat 3 Nov | Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm Pre Havana Glasgow Film Festival event. Free, unticketed. Time to get your dancing shoes on because … Continue reading Free Children Salsa #PassportToCuba
Sun 4 Nov | Saint Luke’s & The Winged Ox 6:00 pm – 11:00 pm Rene Alvarez & his Cuban Combination Quartet Join HGFF 18 and Tumbao at this Special … Continue reading Fiesta: Festival Launch Party
Tue 6 Nov | Glasgow Film Theatre 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Sara Gomez (1943-1974) is an iconic figure within Cuban cinema, as both the country’s first female director and … Continue reading Sara Gómez Retrospective – In partnership with AiM.
Screening: ‘El Techo / The Roof’- Q&A with Director Patricia Ramos Web 7 Nov | Centre for Contemporary Arts 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Patricia Ramos / 2017 / Fiction … Continue reading Screening: ‘El Techo / The Roof’- Q&A with Director Patricia Ramos
Civic Reception By Invitation at Glasgow City Chambers. Wed 7 Nov | City Chambers 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Vestido de Novia ‘His Wedding Dress’ + Q&A Wed 7 Nov | Glasgow Film Theatre 8:15 pm – 10:30 pm Marilyn Solaya / 2014 / Fiction / N/C 18+ / … Continue reading Vestido de Novia ‘His Wedding Dress’ + Q&A
Thu 8 Nov | Centre for Contemporary Arts 9:55 am – 11:45 am 1.00 pm – 3.00 pm Fernando Perez / 1090 / Fiction / 12+ / 90mins. “Why did … Continue reading School Screening: Hello Hemingway
Women’s Forum: Women’s Voices in Culture and Politics in Cuba and Scotland Thu 8 Nov | Centre for Contemporary Arts 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm Women’s Forum: Women’s Voices in … Continue reading Women’s Forum: Women’s Voices in Culture
Hosted by Glasgow School of Art. Annual Cuba-related Lecture Fri 9 Nov | Glasgow Film Theatre 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Screening: ‘El Techo / The Roof’- Q&A with Director Patricia Ramos Web 9 Nov | Centre for Contemporary Arts 9:45 pm – 11:45 pm Patricia Ramos / 2017 / Fiction … Continue reading Screening: ‘El Techo / The Roof’- Q&A with Director Patricia Ramos
Fri 9 Nov | CCA Theater 5:30 pm – 6:45 pm Got a creative project missing a key collaborator? HGFF invite filmmakers, and other creatives, to network with a twist! … Continue reading Free Salsa Networking
Screening: Women in Film Fri 9 Nov | Centre for Contemporary Arts 7:15 pm – 9:45 pm Women In Film Selection of short films by Cuba’s top female directors, including; … Continue reading Screening: Women in Film
Sat 10 Nov | Trongate 103 – Centre for Arts 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Opening Reception: Sat 10th November 1-3pm. Free Entry. A series of 35 images chronicling the … Continue reading Exhibition: Cuba Photography ‘And that was the beginning of the end of that’
‘Laura de la Uz Double Bill: Screening: La Pared de las Palabras’ Sat 10 Nov | Centre for Contemporary Arts 3:00 pm – 4:40 pm Fernando Perez / Cuba / … Continue reading ‘Laura de la Uz Double Bill: Screening: La Pared de las Palabras’
School Screening: Hello Hemingway Sat 10 Nov | Centre for Contemporary Arts 4:50 pm – 6:50 pmm Fernando Perez / 1090 / Fiction / 12+ / 90mins. “Why did they … Continue reading School Screening: Hello Hemingway
‘Lucía’ (1968) – Q&A with Sergio Benvenuto Solas. Sat 10 Nov | Centre for Contemporary Arts 7:15 pm – 10:15 pm Humberto Solas / Fiction / Rating 18 / 164mins … Continue reading ‘Lucía’ (1968) – Q&A with Sergio Benvenuto Solas
‘Probably the History of an Angel: Fernando Birri’ Q&A with Director Domenico Lucchini. Sun 11 Nov | Centre for Contemporary Arts 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Domenico Lucchini & Paolo … Continue reading ‘Probably the History of an Angel: Fernando Birri’ Q&A with Director Domenico Lucchini
Focus on Margaret Tait & Fernando Birri | Double Bill: The Cuba Connections. Sun 11 Nov | Centre for Contemporary Arts 2:45 pm – 4:20 pm This event marks the … Continue reading Margaret Tait – on her Centenary
Screening: ‘El Techo / The Roof’- Q&A with Director Patricia Ramos Sun 11 Nov | Centre for Contemporary Arts 4:45 pm – 6:30 pm Patricia Ramos / 2017 / Fiction … Continue reading El Techo / The Roof
Fiesta: Festival Launch Party Sun 11 Nov | Mango Tropical Bar / Restaurant / Club 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm Facebook: HGFF 2018 Closing Party – Special Sunday Social SALSA … Continue reading Fiesta: Salsa Closing Party
As someone who attended one of our events at our most succesful Film Festival to date a few weeks ago, or someone who likes to know what we are up … Continue reading Thanks for your support!
This year’s edition of Havana Glasgow Film Festival took as its theme women in film, an apt subject given how womens’ roles in the film industry have dominated the last … Continue reading Havana Glasgow Film Festival 2018
Civic Reception at Glasgow City Chambers! – 7 November 2018 Thank you everyone for the support, it was a beautiful night. #civicreception #passporttocuba #HGFF18
This year Havana Glasgow Film Festival’s closing film is Patricia Ramos’ prize-winning El Techo (On the Roof), which has been acclaimed as one of the most interesting recent Cuban films. … Continue reading A Roof With a View
Fernando Birri was one one of the most important figures in Latin American cinema, an Argentinian filmmaker who left behind a legacy of trailblazing films, as well as inspiring generations … Continue reading A Very Old Man With Enormous Influence
Fernando Birri is one of the most important directors in Latin American cinema, but one of the least known in Europe and the US, because of the uncompromisingly radical nature … Continue reading Probably the History of an Angel
Cuba has a long, rich literary tradition, extending from Jose Marti through Alejo Carpentier, the founder of magic realism, to the ‘dirty realism’ of Pedro Juan Gutierrez. However, in … Continue reading Hello Hemingway
Sara Gomez – Image by Agnès Varda Women have had a long, complex and much-contested relationship with cinema, one that has exploded over the course of the last year with … Continue reading She's Gotta Have It – Pioneering Women Filmmakers
Sara Gómez is a crucial figure in the history of both Cuban cinema and women’s filmmaking, if one who has been marginalised, thanks mainly to her early asthma-related death at … Continue reading Sara Gomez: A black filmmaker able to achieve the mystery and silence of the true classics
This month marks the tenth anniversary of the death of one of the most important figures in Cuban cinema, Humberto Solas. Solas would extend the range of Cuban cinema at … Continue reading The Revolutionary Cinema of Humberto Solas
The Cuban revolution was one of the defining moments for early ’60s politics, one whose repercussions would echo throughout the decade. Fidel Castro’s example would be held up as an … Continue reading Memories of Underdevelopment
