Category: Programme 2021

Running for the Revolution is the story of Cuba’s greatest Olympic track and field athlete Alberto Juantorena. His gold medal success at the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games catapulted him onto the world stage…

Fidel Up Close delves into the lesser known facets of Fidel Castro’s personal and intimate life from the perspective of those closest to him, including his children, close family members, delegates and employees. The documentary spans Fidel’s…

Based on the life of Benny Moré, El Benny spans More’s career from the mid 1940’s, until his untimely death in the early 1960’s at the age of 44. The film concentrates on a period in the early 1950s when Moré leaves Mexico and starts his own ‘Banda Gigante’ back in Cuba..

Olexandr Savchenko, “Sacha,” was one year old when the explosion of the nuclear power plant Vladimir Ilich Lenin in Chernobyl occurred on April 26, 1986. He lived in Chernigov, a village in the Ukrainian countryside near the area of the accident…

Hailed as the last soldiers of the Cold War, The Cuban Five were an elite group of undercover agents who operated out of Florida in the 1990s. Abandoning unsuspecting families to ‘defect’ to America, they assumed new identities, led double lives and sacrificed everything to defend Castro’s Cuba…

A film about the elements – hurricanes and rain, the sea and the earth. About Caibarién, a fishing port on the north coast of Cuba devastated by Hurricane Irma on 9th September 2017…

Fishermen from the ‘fifth list’ are the economic backbone and largest labor force of all fishing communities in Cuba. Fishing is their sustenance, culture and life. At the same time, they acknowledge that the future of fisheries depends on the balance between their economic needs…

irst in a series about small business owners who are implementing environmentally and socially sustainable practices. The film focuses on Nayvis Díaz Labaut, an engineer who set up Vélo Cuba – a bike repair shop to promote cycling in Havana…

In 2017, the Cuban government approved the State Plan to confront climate change, known as ‘Tarea Vida’ (Life Task). As a small Caribbean island, Cuba is disproportionately affected by climate change through extreme weather events, heat waves, drought, torrential rain…

Architecture student Estela (Silvia Aguila) makes a suicide attempt after her plans for solving Havana’s housing shortage are rejected. This brings her into contact with earthy, cynical hospital nurse Ernesto (Jorge Perugorria). Estela invites him home for dinner…

inspired by the surrealist artist Andres Breton. They travel to urban and rural places, observing local customs and rituals, partaking in local cuisines and interacting with entrepreneurs…

Cuban Music Video Music Video maker based in Glasgow Alejandro Valera Losa and Cuban filmmaker Arturo Sotto based in Havana will screen and discuss their latest Los Van Van video clip and talk about…

It is the summer of 1994 in Cuba, and tensions are high amidst the migratory crisis with the USA. In the village of Siboney, a young woman, Sugar, is convicted of murder …

Three independent stories linked to a writer’s room with imaginative crisis where people go to tell their stories, hoping someday to find fame as a character in a novel…

Music, history and emotion fuel this award-winning tribute to Los Zafiros – the Beatles of 1960s Cuba. To those whose lives they briefly touched, Los Zafiros are legends. A musical phenomenon molded by their time and place, The Sapphires caused a sensation in Havana and beyond throughout the 1960s…

Three young friends with their own ambitions meet up each day to talk about their lives. Bored and looking for a better future, they decide to set up their own business with what few resources they have. The pursuit of their dream doesn’t come without a cost but this ultimately leads them to a new maturity…

Since 1985, El Mejunje has offered refuge for people marginalized under Castro and a stage for their drag shows, punk rock and spoken word performances. From the beginning, El Mejunje’s performers risked persecution and violence from both the Cuban state and society at large…