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- DirectorJuan Carlos Cremata MalbertiIraida Malberti CabreraStarsMalú Tarrau BrocheJorge MiloLuisa María Jiménez RodríquezIn a tale akin to Romeo and Juliet, the friendship between two children is threatened by their parents' differences. Malu is from an upper-class family and her single mother does not want her to play with Jorgito, as she thinks his background coarse and commonplace. Jorgito's mother is a poor socialist that is proud of her family's social standing. She places similar restriction on her son. What neither woman recognizes is the immense strength of the bond between Malu and Jorgito. When the children learn that Malu's mother is planning to leave Cuba, they decide to travel to the other side of the island to find Malu's father and persuade him against signing the forms that would allow it.
- DirectorTomás Gutiérrez AleaStarsSalvador WoodSilvia PlanasManuel EstanilloA young man attempts to fight the system in an entertaining account of bureaucracy amok and the tyranny of red tape.
- DirectorFernando PérezStarsJorge MartínezGabriela RamosYailene SierraA Cuban man dying of AIDS in Havana.
- DirectorMikhail KalatozovStarsSergio CorrieriSalvador WoodJosé GallardoFour vignettes about the lives of the Cuban people set during the pre-revolutionary era.
- DirectorJonal CosculluelaStarsYuliet CruzReynaldo GuancheCorina MestreBeautiful story of a kid who dreams of learning piano. Coming from a poor family he finds a piano teacher with a secret. The story unfolds somewhere in Havana, Cuba.
- DirectorOrlando RojasStarsJorge Luis ÁlvarezMaría Isabel Díaz LagoFrancisco GattornoA shy country boy gets caught between the peer pressure of his buddies and his love for an overweight, strong willed but likable girl.
- DirectorLuis Felipe BernazaStarsReynaldo MiravallesAna ViñaNancy GonzálesPedro Quijano is a cattle tender who used to be the champion in milk production and lowest mortality of cattle in a site of Escambray mountains in Cuba. For this reason he was normally called Pedro Zero Percentage. Pedro had a family composed of two daughters, Carolina who used to work always with his father, and Purita quiet rebel lovesick in Lupesio, the son of Vicente, another cattle tender, but Pedro's enemy. Their rivalry consisted in their competition to be the most productive cow producer of the region. Vicente had once one of his cows dead and for this reason he was called Vicente Menos (Minus One). The other Vicente's daughter, Blanquita, was lovesick of the Pedro's god son, Trino. So with all this enmity, the couples were never allowed to meet. The end of the film showed a reconciliation of both families for the health of cattle production in that area. Reynaldo Miravalles and Orlando Casin acted very well and gave the necessary colour to this comedy.
- DirectorTomás Gutiérrez AleaStarsSergio CorrieriDaisy GranadosEslinda NúñezA Cuban man cycles through his opinions and memories as the threat of foreign invasion intensifies and the rest of his family moves to Miami.
- DirectorFernando PérezStarsDaniel RomeroDamián RodríguezBroselianda HernándezThe story of José Martí's (Cuba's National Hero) youth.
- DirectorErnesto DaranasStarsAlina RodríguezYuliet CruzArmando Miguel GómezAging teacher Carmela has a special heart for pupils from broken homes and is challenged by the headmaster to follow up 12 year old Chala which is infatuated in Yeni. They are both poor, and has severe home troubles.
- DirectorHumberto SolásStarsRaquel RevueltaEslinda NúñezAdela LegráTraces episodes in the lives of three Cuban women, each named Lucía, from three different historical periods: the Cuban war of independence (with Spain), the 1930s, and the 1960s.
- DirectorTomás Gutiérrez AleaStarsNelson VillagraSilvano ReyLuis Alberto GarcíaA pious plantation owner attempts to teach Christianity to 12 of his slaves by inviting them to participate in a reenactment of the Last Supper.
- DirectorRobert PietriStarsJames AlexandrouBlanca Rosa BlancoOsvaldo DoimeadiósA U.S. Marine investigates the life of his father, a Cuban sports star.
- DirectorJorge Luis SánchezStarsRakel AdrianaUlyk AnelloRenny ArozarenaBased on the life of Benny Moré, the film concentrates on a period in the early 1950s when Moré leaves the orchestra of Duany and starts his own 'Banda Gigante'. In flashback we learn of his success in Mexico. Moré is caught in the events connected to Batista's coup in Cuba. Also, he tours Venezuela, where he suffers the machinations of a vengeful businessman. After collapsing and being hospitalised, Moré swears off alcohol. Some years later, he encounters his old band-mate Monchy, fallen on hard times.
- DirectorRoschdy ZemStarsOmar SyJames ThierréeClotilde HesmeThe rise and fall of the famous clown Chocolat, the first black circus performer who revolutionised the stagnant circus acts and conquered Paris of the Belle Époque with his exuberance and originality.
- DirectorPeter De KockIn 1997 the body of Che Guevara was unearthed under a runway in Bolivia. With this discovery the last mystery of his life and death seemed to be resolved. Untill it became apparent that his hands were missing.
- DirectorPaddy BreathnachStarsHéctor MedinaJorge PerugorríaLuis Alberto GarcíaWhen his estranged father returns, a hairdresser is forced to quit performing at the local drag club.
- DirectorLucy MulloyStarsDariel ArrechagaAnailín de la Rúa de la TorreJavier Núñez FloriánIn Havana, Raul dreams of escaping to Miami. Accused of assault, he appeals to Elio to help him reach the forbidden world 90 miles across the ocean. One night, full of hope, they face the biggest challenge of their lives.
- DirectorTomás Gutiérrez AleaJuan Carlos TabíoStarsJorge PerugorríaVladimir CruzMirta IbarraStory of two men who are opposites: one gay, the other straight; one a fierce communist, the other a fierce individualist; one suspicious, the other accepting; and how they come to love each other.
- DirectorBob YariStarsGiovanni RibisiJoely RichardsonAdrian SparksIn 1959, a young journalist ventures to Havana, Cuba to meet his idol, the legendary Ernest Hemingway who helped him find his literary voice, while the Cuban Revolution comes to a boil around them.
- DirectorJuan PadrónStarsFrank GonzálezManuel MarínIrela BravoA vampire family from Cuba is preparing for a showdown between the USA vampires and the Eastern European vampires. But with the aid of a scientist, they need a type of vaccination where they can live in daylight.
- DirectorTomás Gutiérrez AleaJuan Carlos TabíoStarsCarlos CruzMirta IbarraJorge PerugorríaIt is a satire about life in Cuba. The members of a funeral procession and some truck drivers who need to take the same route begin to talk about God and the world and they end up discovering that life for both groups has many similarities and many differences, depending on the point of view.
- DirectorPavel GiroudStarsCamila ArtecheArmando Miguel GómezBroselianda HernándezA disgraced boxer gradually forms an unlikely friendship with an HIV positive patient he is tasked with monitoring at a military-run sanitarium in 1980s Cuba.
- DirectorHeidi HassanPatricia Pérez FernándezAn intimate and revealing autoethnographic documentary about uprootedness, motherhood, love of film, friendship and freedom.
- DirectorLaura CazadorFernando PérezStarsSylvie TestudBetiza Bismark CalderónAntonio Buíl1810. Enrique Faber, a Swiss surgeon, lands in Cuba in search for his son. After a few weeks of investigation, he is told that his son was burnt alive in the attack on a plantation led by a slave revolt. Enrique Faber does not believe this. He settles in Baracoa and carries on with his research. His success as a doctor and his marriage to Juana, a young strange and attractive pariah from the area soon create jealousies. Malicious rumours immediately spread about his high-pitched voice and his fragile appearance. One night, he comes across four men sent by a slave trader. They undress him and discover that Enrique is a woman... Enrique is thrown into jail. Soon begins the most scandalous trial of Cuban colonial history. Based on a true story
- DirectorFernando PérezStarsFrancisquito CardetFrancisco CardetNorma PérezDawn breaks in La Habana, and as the day advances we follow the simple lives of ten ordinary Cubans, with only sounds and images accompanied by music.
- DirectorJuan Caunedo DomínguezRaul Escobar DelgadoVladimir GarcíaStarsEnrique MolinaYordanka AriosaLuis Alberto GarcíaA portrait of Havana in the middle of the whirlwind of the post restoration of US-Cuba relations. An impasse of uncertainty and vertigo, a feeling of time standing still while future flies away.
- DirectorCarmelo RaneriStarsAmaury Mengana AbreuIhosvani HernándezJoel MartínezAlamar is a suburban "barrio" located to the east of Havana (CUBA); in the neighborhood some artists, tell the reality in which they live. A community context in which poems, graffiti and Hip-Hop music are mixed, through an expressive dialogue of peace and friendship, where the protagonists share their ideas and their dreams, with a sense of common belonging to their place of origin and at the same time as an individual experience. While in, the US President Obama, visits Cuba for the first time since the Cuban revolution, and the Roliing Stones, sing "Satisfaction" in a historic concert in Havana.
- DirectorFélix ViscarretStarsJorge PerugorríaJuana AcostaCarlos Enrique AlmiranteThe killing of a fiery young teacher sets Detective Mario Conde on the trail of a drug kingpin with ties to the high school he once attended.
- DirectorCarlos LechugaStarsLola AmoresEduardo MartinezCesar DomínguezThe story of an improbable friendship between a revolutionary country girl and a noncompliant gay writer she has to watch over for three consecutive days.
- DirectorAntonio HensStarsMilton GarcíaReinier DíazJenifer RodríguezTwo teenage men fall in love, surrounded by the poverty and the marginalization of their country, and are forced to change their lives and take big risks.
- DirectorIcíar BollaínStarsCarlos AcostaSantiago AlfonsoKeyvin MartínezThe director Icíar Bollaín presents the story of the Cuban dancer Carlos Acosta, a legend on the dance world and the first black dancer to perform some of the most famous ballet roles. A dancer who did not want to dance.
- DirectorBenito ZambranoStarsAlberto YoelRoberto San MartínYailene SierraTwo Cuban friends play in a blues band in La Habana. When a Spanish music producer offers them a contract to record an album and build a career in Europe, they must decide whether to stay in their birthplace with their loved ones or to grab the chance of leaving Cuba.
- DirectorNicolas MuñozOn 17 December thousands of Cubans go on a pilgrimage to St. Lazarus hermitage located near Havana. In 2014 this was also the day when diplomatic relations between Cuba and the US were re-established. The pilgrimage is shown from the perspective of priests, local residents trying to make a quick buck on the religious cult and, above all, the pilgrims themselves. Some of them mortify their bodies in a spectacular way.
- DirectorLaurent CantetStarsJorge PerugorríaIsabel SantosNéstor JiménezSun is setting on Havana. Five friends are gathered to celebrate the return of Amadeo after 16 years of exile in Madrid.
- DirectorNiccolò BrunaStarsEnit Abreu GomezLourdes Gonzales RosabalHavana, Cuba, 54th year of US embargo. After helping hundreds of Cubans to travel to the US, Lourdes has finally the chance of getting a visa to see her dying mother in Miami. She waited a lifetime for this moment.
- DirectorJorge DentiStarsCarlos 'Calica' FerrerAlberto GranadoJuan Martín GuevaraReview inspired in the trips throughout South America that future 'Che' Guevara made since 1952, his career as a physician, the correspondence with his family and his political awareness.
- DirectorJosé Sánchez-MontesStarsBola de NieveNisia AgueroSantiago AuserónDocumentary about Cuban pianist and singer Bola de Nieve, aka Ignácio Villa, black, homossexual, mystic, pro-revolution and, above all, musician, one of the latin-american myths of the 20th Century.
- DirectorLeonardo CorbucciStarsFidel CastroLeonardo CorbucciA man living in the USA is nauseated by the media power and Consumerism, decides to go to Cuba with the intention of meeting Fidel Castro. The man is looking for revolution and socialism for a better future for everybody... But he finds a different Cuba from what he thought. Nostalgic, sad, tired of a strong prohibitionist, and of a shortage of speaking and thinking freedom, for a difficult human situation (before a politic idea).
- DirectorCarles BoschJosep Maria DomènechStarsGuillermo ArmasMaria Celeste ArrarasRafael CanoThe story of Cuban refugees who risked their lives in homemade rafts to reach the United States, and what life is like for those who succeed.
- DirectorTristán BauerBiography built from unpublished military and family archive material, highlights the formation of Ernesto Guevara, his poetic view of reality, his thought at the service of action and his desire for the construction of a new world.
- DirectorJohn SturgesFred ZinnemannStarsSpencer TracyFelipe PazosHarry BellaverAn old Cuban fisherman's dry spell is broken when he hooks a gigantic fish that drags him out to sea.
- DirectorTommaso SantambrogioStarsAlexander DiegoEdith IbarraFrank Ernesto LamMilagros survives selling peanut cones on the street and spends her days listening to radio and reading old letters. Frank and Alain nine-year-old best friends go to school and dream of emigrating to the U.S. to become Baseball players.
- DirectorKaveh NabatianStarsYonah AcostaAki YaghoubiEvelyn Castroda O'FarrillAt the urging of his girlfriend, a frustrated Afro-Cuban ballet dancer seduces a lonely Iranian-Canadian divorcee to secure passage from Cuba to Canada, where he plans to reunite with his girlfriend.