Screen Cuba tickets on sale now!
Campaign News | Tuesday, 25 February 2025
Tickets have just gone on sale for Screen Cuba: Films to Change the World 2025 which takes place at cinemas in London, Wales, Oxford and other cities next month.
This Festival of Cuban cinema will look at the achievements and challenges of Cuban people through the lenses of their filmmakers since the 1959 Revolution, and present films rarely screened in the UK. It includes a diverse selection of shorts, features, and documentaries with introductions and Q&A sessions featuring film specialists from Cuba.
Features include Tomás Alea’s iconic masterpiece Memories of Underdevelopment (1968), Fernando Pérez’s passionate portrayal of the 1950s underground struggle Clandestinos (1985), Pastor Vega’s groundbreaking Portrait of Teresa (1979) and Patricia Ramos’s A Night with the Rolling Stones (2023) exploring women’s lives, plus a focus on the “urgent cinema” of extraordinary documentary maker Santiago Álvarez.
LONDON
Screenings at the Garden Cinema
Clandestinos Sun 16 March, 2.30pm
Portrait of Teresa Wed 19 March, 6.30pm
World of Nelsito Fri 21 March, 6.30pm
The People of the Documentary Sun 23 March, 2.30pm
Behaviour Wed 26 March, 6.30pm
A Night with the Rolling Stones Sat 29 March, 8pm
Book for Garden Cinema screenings here
Screenings at ICA London
Guantanamera Tues 18 March, 6.30pm
Memories of Underdevelopment Tues 25 March, 6.30pm
Accelerated Development: A film in the idiom of Santiago Álvarez + shorts by Santiago Álvarez Sat 29 March, 2.30pm
Screening at Birkbeck University Cinema
Sara Gómez’ Isle of Pines Trilogy Mon 17 March, 6.30pm. Free entry.
Email cubafilmfest@gmail.com to reserve a place.
ABERYSTWYTH
Screenings at Aberystwyth Arts Centre as part of the Wales One World (WOW) Film Festival collaboration with Screen Cuba
Portrait of Teresa Sat 8 March, 7.30pm
Memories of Underdevelopment Wed 2 April, 2.30pm
A Night with the Rolling Stones Wed 2 April, 5.30pm
Book for Aberystwyth Arts Centre screenings here
Look out for details of screenings in Oxford and other cities coming soon at screencuba.uk
All screenings are expected to sell out quickly so don’t miss out!
Guantanamera
Festival Gala Reception, ICA, Tuesday 18 March, 6.30pm
Tickets are now available for the Festival Gala Reception which includes a welcome drink, the official Festival poster created by a young Cuban designer, greetings from Festival patrons as well as other special guests, live Cuban music plus screening of the film Guantanamera. The screening begins 6.30pm. Limited tickets for this special reception and screening, which will raise funds for the Festival and Cuban Film Institute, are available now priced £25.
Book your tickets for the gala reception here
The Festival celebrates Cuba’s remarkable home grown cinema industry, despite the US blockade which has impacted deeply, and also aims to raise funds for projects of the Cuban Film Institute (ICAIC), such as the restoration of classic films.
You can find out more about Screen Cuba at screencuba.uk
You can also donate to support the festival and ICAIC projects at screencuba.uk/support
Screen Cuba is the project of Music Fund for Cuba UK charity and Cuba Solidarity Campaign supported by the Cuban Embassy in the UK and in collaboration with the Cuban Film Institute, ICAIC. With thanks to the support of NEU and EQUITY and other donors.
