ICAIC Popular Movie

In this fascinating Oscar-nominated documentary, American guitarist Ry Cooder brings together a group of legendary Cuban folk musicians (some in...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Compay Segundo

Four vignettes on the lives of the Cuban people in the pre-revolutionary era. In Havana, Maria is ashamed when a man she loves discovers how she...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sergio Corrieri

While Havana is full of zombies hungry for human flesh, official media reported that the disturbances are caused by dissidents paid by the United...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Alexis Díaz de Villegas

Simón transports illegal immigrants to New York, leaving them to their fate. When he is discovered by the coastguard, a young sailor, named...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jorge Perugorría

Set in 1979, following a young Communist man's relationship with a gay Catholic writer, exploring tolerance, inclusion, homophobia and challenging...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jorge Perugorría

In the aftermath of the Bay of Pigs incident, Sergio chooses to stay behind in Cuba while his wife and family escape to neighboring Miami. Alone in a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sergio Corrieri

Meet Chala, an eleven year-old boy with a hard life and strong respect for Carmela, his sixth grade teacher. The pair develops a solid bond, but...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Armando Valdés Freyre

Yuli is the nickname given to Carlos Acosta by his father, Pedro, who considers him the son of Ogun, an African god and a fighter. As a child Yuli...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Santiago Alfonso

In 1991, the USSR is falling apart and Cuba enters its hardest economic crisis. Sergio, a professor of Marxism who can't provide for his family, and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tomás Cao

A bourgeois Cuban family of aristocratic origin locks itself into its mansion when the Cuban Revolution comes to power, waiting for the new regime to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Enrique Santisteban

Faced with the emptiness and lack of rational explanation for many of the problems of the contemporary world, it sometimes seems that the only...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Vladimir Cruz

An unclaimed fortune, grown for centuries in a British bank account, becomes a potential windfall for Bernadito Castiñeiras and the residents...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jorge Perugorría

Narrative of a period of life (1926 - 1934) of the Nicaraguan revolutionary leader Sandino, who was known as "The general of free men."

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kris Kristofferson

A young man attempts to fight the system in an entertaining account of bureaucracy amok and the tyranny of red tape. Restored by the Academy Film...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Salvador Wood

This black-and-white film is a loving portrait of Santiago de Cuba and its people. It provides a view of Cuba as a picturesque country, the product...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Victoria Nápoles

In his award-winning film Lucía, Humberto Solás interpreted the theme of Cuba’s hundred years' struggle in an entirely novel way...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raquel Revuelta

Guzmán’s final installment shifts from covering the actions of Allende’s opponents to those who battled to revive & promote their...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Abilio Fernández

In Miraflores, Cuba, the growing romance between Mario, a factory worker, and Yolanda, a schoolteacher, throws into relief the differences in their...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Mario Balmaseda

Genre: Comedy

Cast: José Ramón Soroiz

Gorka has long postponed again and again the answer to the pressing questions that his son Aitor asks about his past. Gorka, a member of ETA...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Asier Hormaza