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Earlier this year, Cuba was in a state of national mourning for the death of its best-loved animated filmmaker, Juan Padrón. It is difficult to overestimate the importance of this … Continue reading Ian Padrón

Anyone familiar with Cuban music, knows the song Chan Chan. The Buena Vista Social Club classic has become representative for Cuba all over the world. Its evocative opening melody is … Continue reading Eliades Ochoa: Taking Cuban Music to the Global Stage

Félix Flores Varona is a writer and researcher on English and international literature, who currently lives in Scotland. At this year’s HGFF, he will be presenting an exploration of the links … Continue reading Cuban-Celtic Connections

The Cuban Wars of Independence were a long, protracted struggle with much blood shed. But one of the most appalling incidents occurred during the first, Ten Years War, in 1871, … Continue reading Innocence

Nobody represents leftist culture in music quite like poet-musician Silvio Rodríguez. Born in 1946 in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba, Rodríguez became one of the leading figures of the … Continue reading Silvio Rodríguez: The Life of a Cuban Legend

Day of the Flowers + Q&A  Wed 28 October 2020 7.30 – 9.45pm John Roberts / 2013 / UK / Comedy, Drama, Romance/ 15 / 1hr39mins Two Scottish sisters, one … Continue reading Day of the Flowers

Sat 7 November 2020 Time: 1– 1.45pm  (video from live dance class with Farah in Kelvingrove Musuem as part of HGFF 2019) Online Salsa dance class for children, led by … Continue reading Kid’s Salsa Latin Fun (Zoom class)

Sat 7 Nov 2020 Time: 4 – 5pm Open level Salsa ‘Suelta’ / Solo Dance workshop with Cuban professional Dancers OSCLE & LISI. Havana Glasgow Film Festival is very pleased … Continue reading Cuban Salsa Dance Workshop with Oscle and Lisi (via Zoom)

Monday 9 November Time: 6.30 – 8.30pm *Free, but registration required. Open to all.  A training session in partnership with Migrant Voice  The programme will include the following sessions: 1/ … Continue reading Migrant Voice Media Lab Training Scotland

Sat 7 November 2020 Time: 7pm – 9.15pm De Vuelta Al Barrio / Back to the Neighbourhood + Q&A Alejandro Valera Alejandro Valera Losa / 2019 / Documentary / 16+ … Continue reading De Vuelta Al Barrio / Back to the Neighbourhood

Tues 10 November 2020 Time: 6.45 – 7.20pm Join Eirene Houston in Glasgow and Hugo Rivalta in Havana as they introduce HGFF’s sixth Festival, discuss their personal highlights of the programme … Continue reading Welcome to HGFF20 with Co-Directors Eirene Houston and Hugo Rivalta

Tues 10 November 2020 Time: 7.30 – 9.15pm Cuba: Living Between Hurricanes + live Q+A with director Michael Chanan Michael Chanan / 2019 / Documentary / N/C / 1hr10mins A film … Continue reading Cuba: Living Between Hurricanes

Wed 11 November 2020 Time: 5.30 – 6:40pm Rogelio Paris / 2004 / Poland / Documentary /N/C / 1hr6min A rare panorama of Cuban music and dance from the 1960s. … Continue reading Nosotros La Música / We are the Music

Thu 12 November 2020 Time: 2.30 – 4.30pm Alejandro Gil / Cuba / 2018 / Fiction / 18 / 2hr1min Havana, November 1871. A class of first year medical students … Continue reading Inocencia / Innocence 

Wed 11 November 2020 Time: 8–9pm A fun and informative evening in the kitchen of Glaswegian chef Gary Maclean, cooking food inspired by his recent trip to Cuba. In December … Continue reading Cuban Food Night with Chef Gary Maclean

Thu 12 November 2020 Time: 5.00 –7.15pm Ghost Town to Havana, Introduced by Cinematographer Roberto Chile + Q&A Eugene Corr Eugene Corr, Roberto Chile / 2015 / Documentary / N/C … Continue reading Ghost Town to Havana

Thurs 12 November 2020 Time: 8 – 10pm El Viaje Extraordinario de Celeste Garcia / The Extraordinary Journey of Celeste Garcia + Q&A Guest actor María Isabel Díaz (TBC) Arturo … Continue reading El Viaje Extraordinario de Celeste Garcia / The Extraordinary Journey of Celeste Garcia

Friday 13 November 2020 Time: 12 – 1pm Jean Pelletier / 2015 / Canada / Doc / 55min Fidel Castro is one of the most famous and controversial figures of … Continue reading The Man Behind the Myth, Intimate Portrait of Fidel Castro

Friday 13 November 2020 Time: 2 – 3.40pm Daniel Diaz Torres / 2012 / Drama / 18 / 1hr40min Another chance to see this favourite from our very first festival … Continue reading La Pelicula de Ana / Ana’s Film

Friday 13 November 2020 Time: 4.30 – 7pm 4.30-5.55 films 6-7 discussion (available to watch internationally, via our Facebook page) Nicolás Guillén Landrián – Memory in Progress + Panel Discussion … Continue reading Nicolás Guillén Landrián – Memory in Progress

Friday 13 November 2020 Time: 7.30 – 9.45pm Click here to watch the film on Muvi 7.30 –7.35World Premiere of Luz Y Esperanza / Light and Hope – a special … Continue reading Cuba and COVID19: Public Health, Science and Solidarity

Saturday 14 November 2020 Time: 10.15am – 11.30am Elpidio Valdes Juan Padrón/ 1979 / Cuba / Animation / 1hr10min This film is captioned and is in Spanish with English subtitles … Continue reading Elpidio Valdes

Saturday 14 November 2020 Time: 3.40pm – 5pm Q&A 5-6pm Juan Padrón / Cuba / 1985 / Animation, Comedy, Horror / 1hr20min This film is captioned The second of two … Continue reading Vampiros en La Habana / Vampires in Havana

Saturday 14 November 2020 Time: 1.00– 3.30pm Fernando Perez / Cuba / 2014 / Fiction / 15 / 1hr37min Feature film in association with ICAIC This film is captioned Another … Continue reading La Pared de las palabras / The Wall of Words + discussion

Saturday 14 November 2020 Time: 6.15 – 6.45pm A chance to learn how to make a classic Cuban cocktail – a mojito. Have these ingredients at hand – ice, sugar, … Continue reading Cuban cocktail making demo and informal chat with the HGFF team plus new videos by Los Van Van

Saturday 14 November 2020 Time: 7.30 – 10.15pm Eliades Ochoa: From Cuba to the World 7.30 – 9.10pm Cynthia Biestek, Ruben Gomez / 2019 / UK / Documentary, Biography, Music … Continue reading Cuban Legends Double Bill – Eliades Ochoa and Silvio Rodríguez

Sunday 15 November 2020 Film 11.30am-1.40pmDiscussion 1.40-3pm Humberto Solás / 1982 / Spain / Drama / 2hr7min Cecilia, a Cuban girl of mixed race in violent 19th-century Cuba, is raised … Continue reading Cecilia + Connecting Cuban and Scottish literature – Felix Flores Varona

Sunday 15 November 2020 3-6.30pm PART ONE 3-4.45pm 3-3.45pm – Short films – Watch here Martica: a family doctor, En la sangre / In the blood, Trabajo de amor / … Continue reading Cuba from the Inside – Part One and Two – featuring shorts from Cuba Platform and Belly of the Beast

Sun 15 November 2020 Time: 6.40 – 7.25pm Roberto Chile / Cuba /2006 /Doc / 37min Documentary about Cuban medical volunteers in Pakistan following the devastating earthquake of 2005. Register … Continue reading En Las Laderas del Himalaya / On the Slopes of the Himalayas

Sun 15 November 2020 Time: 7.30 – 9.05pm ¡SALUD!  / Health! In association with Africa in Motion Connie Field / 2006 / Doc / 1hr33min  This film is captioned A … Continue reading ¡SALUD! / Health!