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- Four vignettes about the lives of the Cuban people set during the pre-revolutionary era.
- A Cuban man cycles through his opinions and memories as the threat of foreign invasion intensifies and the rest of his family moves to Miami.
- "Not everything is what it seems". This is the motto of Fernando Pérez's Madrigal, an esoteric fable built, in the first part, around a handsome actor's love story with an overweight and homely girl (does he have eyes for her, or for her swanky apartment?) and, in the second part, recounting the story of a futuristic novel the actor is writing (which turns Havana into some dark orgyesque playground with a film noir tone).
- In an alternate reality, Fidel Castro turns to genetic engineering to create his elusive New Man and save his socialist utopia. Eventually the experiment fails because these highly intelligent beings are cruel and uncontrollable. Rejected by their own creators, they orchestrate a series of terrorists attacks throughout the island spreading fear and chaos in Cuba. When Elena, a group member, discovers a clue to her genetic identity, she embarks on a journey to find her own humanity.
- A young, attractive widow is protected from her vicious mother-in-law, by a male relative who practices Satanism, and lusts after the old woman's sexy adolescent granddaughter.
- A 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.
- It 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.
- Traces 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.
- A Russian Literature professor at the University of Havana is ordered to work as a translator for child victims of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster when they are sent to Cuba for medical treatment.
- Directed mainly for kids, the film speaks of a Havana that "reveals two distinct faces, from the everyday life of a couple of kids", according to the film's official synopsis.
- Nicholas Quevedo, a Cuban-American rumba singer moves from Havana to New York with nothing else but his love for rumba and his unbreakable dream to make it in the Big Apple, but his journey would be confronted by unimaginable challenges.
- Cecilia, a Cuban girl of mixed race in violent 19th-century Cuba, is raised by her mother and grandmother as a courtesan. Soon, pale-skinned Cecilia catches the eye of the estate owner's son, Leonardo. Cecilia bows to Leonardo's demands provided he agrees to shelter a wounded member of the resistance movement at his home. Leonardo's wealthy father, Cándido de Gamboa, arranges the engagement of his son to a white girl of their own class. Cecilia tries to stop the wedding with tragic results.
- Songwriter falls in love with a crippled man's wife.
- Yolanda, a young Cuban woman, turns from dancing like crazy at a house party to rushing against time to find her son and get out of the city when video of the meeting is circulated and seems to be incriminating.
- Revisit with the remaining original members of the Buena Vista Social Club and explore their contribution to the unknown history of Cuba.
- A young man attempts to fight the system in an entertaining account of bureaucracy amok and the tyranny of red tape.
- Aging 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.
- In Miraflores, Cuba, the growing romance between Mario, a factory worker, and Yolanda, a schoolteacher, throws into relief the differences in their perspectives and values in Revolutionary Cuba.
- Based 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.
- The architecture student Estela (Silvia Aguila) makes a suicide attempt after her plans for solving Havana's housing shortage are rejected. This brings her into contact with earthy, cynical hospital nurse Ernesto (Jorge Perugorria). Estela invites him home for dinner, and he succeeds in offending everyone present. Unable to find a quiet spot to be alone, they finally find a squatters' tenement, where their sexual frenzy causes a ceiling to collapse. They next try vertical love in a stalled elevator, trapping people in the modern building minus stairs. Fleeing responsibilities, they stage a romantic rendezvous alongside a country river, but once again they are interrupted as Cuban commissars arrive with papers and forms because the couple constructs a hut beneath a bridge. Amid the misadventures, lust turns to love
- A pious plantation owner attempts to teach Christianity to 12 of his slaves by inviting them to participate in a reenactment of the Last Supper.
- Three young Cubans crowded into a decaying neighborhood of Havana, imagine prosperous futures for themselves, as they struggle to meet the demands of everyday life.
- The internet in Cuba is very slow. Movies, television, and information are exchanged through a black market system of media distribution via external hard drives known as "el paquete semanal."
- Brother and sister Carlos and Gaby live live with their dysfunctional family where appearances are the most important thing. When Gaby leave for college overseas, Carlos' world falls apart.
- In a boarding school, Raidel is witness to the abuse suffered by his schoolmate Randy.
- On november 27th, 1871 one of the most atrocious events happened in the Cuban territory, the regiment of voluntarys of the spanish army along with the Spaniard corrupt government that ruled the island, conspired to destroy the lives of 8 students of medicine. The resolution of the young students in maintaining their dignity over the injustice in which they were involved; the reaction of few fair spanish men to the inexplicable situation in which the events was developed and the never told roll of Fermín Valdés in the discovery of the truth will change the insight of this story. Based on true events, this film was a debt to the cuban history that was settled.
- She is a young beautiful girl who lives life to the full. He is a man in his forties. They feel an unhealthy attraction for each other.
- In a town plagued by the murders of the "Killer of the Seven Leathers", a prostitute helps a religious young man when he's attacked by hoodlums. He takes her to his ragged shack filled with Catholic objects, where she tries to seduce him.
- The story of an improbable friendship between a revolutionary country girl and a noncompliant gay writer she has to watch over for three consecutive days.
- A shy country boy gets caught between the peer pressure of his buddies and his love for an overweight, strong willed but likable girl.
- A TUBA TO CUBA follows New Orleans' famed Preservation Hall Jazz Band as they retrace their musical roots from the storied city of jazz to the shores of Cuba and in turn discover a connection that runs much deeper than could have been imagined.
- The US tried to occupy Nicaragua in 1927. General Cesar Augusto Sandino and his guerrillas begin armed resistance.
- A Russian cosmonaut is stranded on The Mir Space Station during the collapse of the Soviet Union.
- An intellectual leaves the Cuban revolution and 'underdevelopment' behind only to find himself at odds with the ambiguities of his new life in the 'developed' world. A portrait of alienation, of an outsider with no clear-cut politics or ideology. A stranger in a strange land struggling with old age, sexual desire and ultimately the impossibility for the individual to belong in any society. The film's narrative is a collage of flashbacks, daydreams, and hallucinations comprising live-action, animation, and newsreel footage assembled to suggest the way personal memory works, subjectively and emotionally.
- Three characters in present-day Havana must choose between clinging to their self-restricting beliefs, or getting rid of them to live more freely. Ballerina Mariana has promised God celibacy if she gets the role of "Giselle"; Social-worker Julia always faints after hearing a certain word; and pot-smoking percussionist Elpidio was abandoned by his mother, coincidentally named Cuba, some time ago and has not yet gotten over the loss.
- In a magical world, small but brave Tom Little embarks on the adventure of a lifetime to release the kingdom from a spell and win the hand of a beautiful princess. But who is his true love: the king's daughter or the courageous thief?
- "The CIA's War Against Cuba" - a briefing of the past ten years of CIA activities in Cuba, and the agents and other staff involved by the Dirección General de Inteligencia (DGI).
- Vuelos Prohíbidos cuenta la historia de amor de Mario y Monique, quienes se conocen cuando una inesperada tormenta provoca la cancelación de sus vuelos desde París hacia Cuba, hecho que los llevó a convertirse en amantes en un hotel contiguo al aeropuerto. Allí, entre confesiones y sentimientos, intentarán compartir sus visiones de Cuba, viajando entre tormentas de verdades, frustraciones, dudas y esperanzas. La historia, que comenzará a escribirse en el año 2007, se empeña en mostrar los contrastes de un país, desde la modernidad del Vedado y Miramar, hasta la otra Habana, de acuerdo al director de la cinta. A pesar de que toda la trama transcurre en París, pueden verse imágenes de la isla caribeña, que en la actualidad se encuentra en la mira internacional de cara a su apertura comercial. El cantante cubano Paulo Fernández Gallo realiza el papel protagónico, lo que supone un rol de doble partida al ser Vuelos Prohíbidos su debut cinematográfico. La actriz francesa de origen marroquí Sanâa Alaoui, encarna a Monique que intenta viajar a la Habana para conocer a un padre cubano que nunca ha visto. Daysi Granados, Mario Balmaseda y Manuel Porto complementan el resto del elenco en este filme, cuyo propósito es brindar una historia que quiere ser honesta en su diálogo con nuestra realidad, en palabras del director cubano. La idea original del proyecto es de Wendy Guerra y Rigoberto López, mientras que el trabajo del guión estuvo a cargo del propio director con Julio Carranza. En la producción ejecutiva participó Danilo León Alonso y Omar de la Cruz; Miguel Núñez en la música y Ángel Alderete Gómez como Director de fotografía. Vuelos Prohíbidos es una producción del Instituto cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematográficos (ICAIC) con la colaboración del Ministerio de Cultura de Cuba y la Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo de la República Dominicana (Funglode).
- Story shows the genesis of the career and the rise of Esther the most beloved actress of most popular theater in Havana at the turn of the 19th century.
- Slice-of-life look at Roberto and Aurelia, Cuban exiles living in New York City with their 17-year-old daughter Aurelita. It's February, 1978; the winter is harsh, and for 10 years Roberto's been the super of an apartment building: firing up the boiler, repairing windows, moving bags of garbage. He's homesick for Cuba, stuck in repetitive conversations about the Bay of Pigs, Castro, and life back home. He's too depressed to make love to Aurelia, and when his daughter thinks she's pregnant and he receives sad news from Cuba, he makes up his mind to quit the city for Miami. The decision gives him new life, he remembers Aurelia's birthday, and they have a party to celebrate.
- La Descarga is an independent Cuban talk show sponsored since 2019 by a group of young friends. Rappers Lian Marrero and Nesty The Producer, and filmmaker CJ Martínez deals with entertainment, faith and arts. The second season, under the executive production of journalist Yoe Suárez, had a more political undertone.
- Detective Patricia goes back to her hometown to find the rapist behind a fifteen year old case.
- Before the military coup in Cuba, a group of people have a clandestine printing press, used to print subversive pamphlets against the government.
- Havana 2027: A 38-year-old man, after 10 years of sentence, leaves prison. Sad for the death of his girlfriend, he arrives in the city determined to end his life. A clown, Mofo, host of a TV show, makes him an offer to die in a great way.