Cuba Movies

An experimental trip in Cuba, crafted from the filmmaker's personal photos,videos and archives.

In a small Caribbean community, a woman gives birth to her second child and dies in childbirth. In their grief, the community draws strength from...

To understand the history of Cuban rum is to understand the history of Cuba itself. From belief systems to music to revolution, rum has been there,...

Filmmaker Carolina Valencia documents her effort to become a witch doctor in the Santaria tradition as well as her struggles as a transgender person.

Based on a postcard from 1982 in which Cuban parents are explained how to put a gas mask on their children in the event of biological warfare against...

Leoneidi is only 12 years old and already a mother. She spent pretty much her entire pregnancy in hospital, she says with a deadpan expression, with...

Ritual dances, incantations and fetishes in an associative sequence of mystical scenes reveal the roots of the Afro-Cuban minority in Bauta, Cuba,...

The dark forest is the record of a long journey that connects two funerary rituals in Cuba: the state burial to say goodbye to the fallen in the...

Wilmar disappeared eleven years ago. Now his twin brother has to give certainty of his death to Maúca.

Depicts a female form crafted from mud, whose centre (her womb) erupts into smoke which eventually leaves behind a scarred mark in the earth body.

The origin of the chair. Its different styles and uses throughout the centuries, culminating in the most important chair in the world: the school...

Animated short film, with animation and story by Quino.

Violence disguises itself as love, and a romantic relationship becomes silent and systematic torture. A moving testimony in the voice of its victim.

Some twenty five years after The Buena Vista Social Club, traditional Cuban music lives on, but it's facing a threat from foreign styles and a...

Lisaida is a young Caribbean woman trapped in her situation as a young mother while she and her partner are still growing up.

“The strange joy of living”, as the Italian poet Sandro Penna wrote, or how to make love until the end of our days. A middle-aged Cuban...