Cuban Film Festival

About the film Cuban filmmaker Enrique “Kiki” Álvarez’s newest feature paints a slow-burning love story set in the years immediately following the Cuban Revolution in January of 1959. The Black Box is a secret diary written by Elsa and read by her granddaughter several decades later, a film about a young woman who finds and […]

About the film This film revolves around a young man of humble origins who has an unnamed disability. He lives with his mother, a divorced artist whose paintings aren’t selling. The youth’s strange affliction is never spoken of, but he always appears lying down and never speaks. At one moment, he sees that the door […]

About the film This film is a thrilling true story of an elite group of Cuban spies sent undercover to the US in the 1990s. From their recruitment, training and eventual capture on US soil; this film peers into a secret world of false identities, love affairs and betrayal. Using never seen before footage from […]

About the film This is an Irish movie set in Havana, where it was filmed with a keen eye to that city’s dinginess in tropical light. Its hero, Jesus (Héctor Medina), is a gay hairdresser who dreams of becoming a drag entertainer at the nightclub where he coifs the noisy, squabbling divas. Jesus, whose mother is […]

About the film This documentary covers the origins of the Oblate Sisters of Providence and it is dedicated to the work of the Oblates in Cuba. Viewers can have information about the events that were triggered by the Haitian Revolution at the end of the 18th century: A large wave of French emigrants, mulattoes, free […]

About the film This is a Spanish and Cuban film by director Benito Zambrano which tells the story of two young musicians in Cuba. The two musicians, Ruy and Tito, whose music is a mix of traditional Cuban music and more modern music such as rap, get a chance at an international breakthrough through a […]