An incomplete list of films produced in Cuba

Cuba

The Republic of Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city...

in year order. For an A-Z list of films currently on Wikipedia see :Category:Cuban films

1920s

• El Veneno de un Beso (1929).

Director: Ramón Peón.

Cast: Miguel Santos.

1930s

• La Virgen de la Caridad (1930).

Director: Ramón Peón.

Cast: Miguel Santos, Gonzalo E. Piqui, M. del Valle y Olimpia Fernández.

• El Romance del Palmar (1938).

Director: Ramón Peón.

Cast: Carlos Badías, Lolita Berrio, Julito Díaz y Miguel Santos.

1940s

• La caperucita roja/El faquir (1947) - Short films.

Director: Tomás Gutiérrez Alea

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea was a Cuban filmmaker. He wrote and directed more than 20 features, documentaries, and short films, which are known for his sharp insight into post-Revolutionary Cuba, and possess a delicate balance between dedication to the revolution and criticism of the social, economic,...

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1950s

• Con el deseo en los dedos (1958).

Director: Mario Barral.

Cast: Minín Bujones, Jorge Felix and Enrique Santiesteban.

1960s

• El Bautizo (The Christening) (1961).

Director: Roberto Fandiño.

Cast: Julito Martinez, Eloisa Alvarez Guedes, Enrique Almirante, Dulce Velazco, Idalberto Delgado, Manela Bustamente, Tete Blanco, Alden Knight, Salvador Wood and Agustin Campos.

• Las doce sillas (Twelve Chairs) (1962).

Director: Tomás Gutiérrez Alea

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea was a Cuban filmmaker. He wrote and directed more than 20 features, documentaries, and short films, which are known for his sharp insight into post-Revolutionary Cuba, and possess a delicate balance between dedication to the revolution and criticism of the social, economic,...

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Cast: Enrique Santiesteban and Reynaldo Miravalles.

• El Otro Cristóbal
  El Otro Cristóbal
  El Otro Cristóbal is a 1963 Cuban film directed by Armand Gatti. It was entered into the 1963 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Bertina Acevedo* Jean Bouise* Pierre Chaussat* Marc Dudicourt* Alden Knight* Eslinda Núñez* Carlos Ruiz de la Tejera...
  
   (1963)

Director: Armand Gatti

Armand Gatti

Armand Gatti is a French playwright, poet, journalist, screenwriter, film-maker and former WW II resistance fighter. His 1963 film, El Otro Cristóbal was entered into the 1963 Cannes Film Festival....

• Melodrama
  Melodrama
  The term melodrama refers to a dramatic work that exaggerates plot and characters in order to appeal to the emotions. It may also refer to the genre which includes such works, or to language, behavior, or events which resemble them...
  
   (1963)

Director: Rolando Diaz.

Cast: Javier Avila, Carlos Cruz, Veronica Lopez.

• Los Tarantos
  Los Tarantos
  Los Tarantos is a 1963 Spanish musical drama film directed by Francisco Rovira Beleta. It was nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Foreign Film category....
  
   (1963)

Director: Vicente Escriva

Vicente Escrivá

Vicente Escrivá was a Spanish film director, producer and screenwriter. He worked on over 50 films between 1948 and 1999.-Selected filmography:* Reckless * Dulcinea -External links:...

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Cast: Esperanza Campuzano, Sancho Gracia

Sancho Gracia

Sancho Gracia is a Spanish motion picture and television actor.He made his acting debut in France in the 1963 film L'Autre femme opposite Annie Girardot. Since then he has appeared in more than eighty motion pictures including several Hollywood productions during the 1970s and in 1999's Outlaw...

, Cristina Hoyos

Cristina Hoyos

Cristina Hoyos Panadero is a Spanish flamenco dancer, choreographer and actress, born in Seville. After several successes throughout the world with several companies and movies, she created her own dancing company and premiered with it in Rex Theatre of Paris in 1988...

, Juan Antonio Jimenez, Juan Paredes

Juan Paredes

Juan Paredes Miranda is a retired boxer from Mexico, who won the bronze medal in the men's featherweight division at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada...

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• Muerte de un burócrata
  Muerte de un burócrata
  La muerte de un burócrata is a 1966 comedy film by Cuban director Tomás Gutiérrez Alea in which he pokes fun at the communist bureaucracy and red tape and how it affects the lives of the common people who have to waste time and overcome hurdles just to get on with their ordinary lives.The story...
  
   (Death of a Bureaucrat) (1966).

Director: Tomás Gutiérrez Alea

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea was a Cuban filmmaker. He wrote and directed more than 20 features, documentaries, and short films, which are known for his sharp insight into post-Revolutionary Cuba, and possess a delicate balance between dedication to the revolution and criticism of the social, economic,...

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Cast: Salvador Wood.

• I am Cuba
  I Am Cuba
  I am Cuba is a 1964 Soviet-Cuban film directed by Mikhail Kalatozov at Mosfilm. The film was not received well by either the Russian or Cuban public and was almost completely forgotten until it was re-discovered by filmmakers in the United States thirty years later...
  
   (Soy Cuba) (1966).

Director: Mikhail Kalatozov

Mikhail Kalatozov

Mikhail Kalatozov born Mikheil Kalatozishvili was a Georgian/Russian film director. Born in Tiflis , he studied economics before starting his film career as an actor and later cinematographer....

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Cast: Sergio Corrieri and Salvador Wood.

• Aventuras de Juan Quinquin (The adventures of Juan Quinquin) (1967).

Director: Julio García Espinosa.

Cast: Julio Martínez, Edwin Fernández, Adelaida Raymat, Enrique Santiesteban, Agustín Campos, Manuel Pereiro, Anneris Clech and Mayda Limonta.

• Memorias del subdesarrollo
  Memorias del Subdesarrollo
  Memories of Underdevelopment is a seminal 1968 Latin American film from Cuba. Directed by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, the story is based on a novel by Edmundo Desnoes. It was Alea's fifth film, and probably his most famous worldwide...
  
   (Memories of Underdevelopment) (1968).

Director: Tomás Gutiérrez Alea

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea was a Cuban filmmaker. He wrote and directed more than 20 features, documentaries, and short films, which are known for his sharp insight into post-Revolutionary Cuba, and possess a delicate balance between dedication to the revolution and criticism of the social, economic,...

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Cast: Sergio Corrieri, Daysi Granados, Eslinda Núñez and Omar Valdés.

• Lucía
  Lucía
  Lucía is a 1968 Cuban black-and-white film directed by Humberto Solás, and written by Julio García Espinosa and Nelson Rodríguez. It was the winner of the Golden Prize at the 1969 Moscow International Film Festival....
  
   (1968).

Director: Humberto Solás

Humberto Solás

Humberto Solás was a Cuban film director, credited with directing the classic film Lucía , which explored the lives of Cuban women during different periods in Cuban history....

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Cast: Raquel Revuelta, Eslinda Núñez and Adela Legrá.

1970s

• El hombre de Maisinicú (1973).

Director: Manuel Pérez Paredes.

Cast: Sergio Corrieri, Reynaldo Miravalles and Adolfo Llauradó.

• De cierta Manera (1974).

Director: Sara Gómez

Sara Gómez

-Filmography:*Plaza Vieja; El solar; Historia de la piratería; Solar habanero *Iré a Santiago *Excursión a Vueltabajo *Guanabacoa: Crónica de mi familia *.....

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• The Other Francisco (1974).

Director: Sergio Giral

Sergio Giral

Sergio Giral Sergio Giral is a renowned Black Cuban-American film writer and director, born in Havana, Cuba from an American mother and a Cuban father. He was raised in New York City, as an aspiring young painter in the days of the Beatnick generation...

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• La última cena
  La última cena
  La Última Cena is a 1976 Cuban historical film directed by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea. The film tells the story of a pious plantation owner during Cuba's Spanish colonial period. The plantation owner decides to recreate the Biblical Last Supper using twelve of the slaves working in his sugarcane fields,...
  
   (Last Supper) (1976).

Director: Tomás Gutiérrez Alea

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea was a Cuban filmmaker. He wrote and directed more than 20 features, documentaries, and short films, which are known for his sharp insight into post-Revolutionary Cuba, and possess a delicate balance between dedication to the revolution and criticism of the social, economic,...

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• Rancheador (1977)

Director: Sergio Giral

Sergio Giral

Sergio Giral Sergio Giral is a renowned Black Cuban-American film writer and director, born in Havana, Cuba from an American mother and a Cuban father. He was raised in New York City, as an aspiring young painter in the days of the Beatnick generation...

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• El brigadista (1977).

Director: Octavio Cortázar

Octavio Cortázar

Octavio Cortázar was a Cuban film director and screenwriter. He directed twelve films between 1961 and 2005...

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Cast: Patricio Wood and Salvador Wood.

• Rio Negro (1977).

Director: Manuel Pérez Paredes.

Cast: Sergio Corrieri, Nelson Villagra

Nelson Villagra

Nelson Villagra is a Chilean actor, author and director. He is considered to be the most masterful actors in Chilean cinema. He is widely known for his exceptional portrayal of the assassin in El Chacal de Nahueltoro by the director Miguel Littin...

, Alejandro Lugo and Mario Balmaseda.

• Los sobrevivientes
  The Survivors (1979 film)
  The Survivors is a 1979 Cuban drama film directed by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea. It was entered into the 1979 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Enrique Santiesteban - Sebastián Orozco* Juanita Caldevilla - Doña Lola* Germán Pinelli - Pascual Orozco...
  
   (1978).

Director: Tomás Gutiérrez Alea

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea was a Cuban filmmaker. He wrote and directed more than 20 features, documentaries, and short films, which are known for his sharp insight into post-Revolutionary Cuba, and possess a delicate balance between dedication to the revolution and criticism of the social, economic,...

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Cast: Enrique Santiesteban, Reynaldo Miravalles and German Pinelli

German Pinelli

German Pinelli was a Cuban journalist and actor....

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• Retrato de Teresa (1979).

Director: Pastor Vega.

Cast: Daysi Granados and Adolfo Llauradó.

1980s

• Maluala (1980)

Director: Sergio Giral

Sergio Giral

Sergio Giral Sergio Giral is a renowned Black Cuban-American film writer and director, born in Havana, Cuba from an American mother and a Cuban father. He was raised in New York City, as an aspiring young painter in the days of the Beatnick generation...

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• Guardafronteras (1980).

Director: Octavio Cortázar

Octavio Cortázar

Octavio Cortázar was a Cuban film director and screenwriter. He directed twelve films between 1961 and 2005...

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Cast: Tito Junco, Patricio Wood, Javier González

Javier Gonzalez

Javier Gonzalez is a professional racecar driver. He is best-known internationally for his part-season drive in the Barber Dodge Pro Series season of 2002. He also enjoys sponsoring Mexican children.-External Links:*...

, Salvador Blanco, Maribel Rodríguez, Alberto Pujol, Idalia Anreus and Alejandro Lugo.

• Techo de Vidrio (1981)

Director: Sergio Giral

Sergio Giral

Sergio Giral Sergio Giral is a renowned Black Cuban-American film writer and director, born in Havana, Cuba from an American mother and a Cuban father. He was raised in New York City, as an aspiring young painter in the days of the Beatnick generation...

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• Cecilia
  Cecilia (1982 film)
  Cecilia is a 1982 Cuban drama film directed by Humberto Solás. The film is based on the novel Cecilia Valdés by Cirilo Villaverde. It was entered into the 1982 Cannes Film Festival.-Plot:The film takes place in 19th-century Cuba...
  
   (1982).

Director: Humberto Solas

Humberto Solás

Humberto Solás was a Cuban film director, credited with directing the classic film Lucía , which explored the lives of Cuban women during different periods in Cuban history....

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Cast: Daisy Granados, Imanol Arias

Imanol Arias

Imanol Arias born Manuel María Arias Domínguez , is a Spanish actor and one off film director.Imanol Arias began his career with a travelling theatre group in Spain performing in the Basque Country of northern Spain. He debuted on TV in 1976 and his first film was in "Cecilia " of 'Humberto Solas'...

, Raquel Revuelta, Miguel Benavides, Eslinda Núñez, Nelson Villagra

Nelson Villagra

Nelson Villagra is a Chilean actor, author and director. He is considered to be the most masterful actors in Chilean cinema. He is widely known for his exceptional portrayal of the assassin in El Chacal de Nahueltoro by the director Miguel Littin...

, Gerardo Riverón, Alejandro Lugo, Alfredo Mayo

Alfredo Mayo

Alfredo Mayo was a Spanish actor.- Biography :After leaving his studies of medicine in 1929, Mayo debuts at theatre with the company of Ernesto Vilches...

, Enrique Almirante, Mayda Limonta, Angel Toraño, Hilda Oates.

• Amada
  Amada
  The Temple of Amada, the oldest Egyptian temple in Nubia, was first constructed by pharaoh Thutmose III of the 18th dynasty and dedicated to Amun and Re-Horakhty. His son and successor, Amenhotep II continued the decoration program for this structure. Amenhotep II's successor, Thutmose IV decided...
  
   (1982).

Director: Humberto Solás

Humberto Solás

Humberto Solás was a Cuban film director, credited with directing the classic film Lucía , which explored the lives of Cuban women during different periods in Cuban history....

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Cast: Eslinda Nuñez, César Évora

César Évora

César Évora is a Cuban actor.- Biography :Évora started out his career in his native Cuba appearing in more than ten movies before moving to Mexico in the early 1990s. He became known for playing minor roles in the seminal Corazón salvaje and the long-running Agujetas de color de rosa in 1993 and...

, Silvia Planas, Andrés Hernández, Oncida Hernández, Gerardo Riveron.

• Los pájaros tirándole a la escopeta (1982).

Director: Rolando Díaz.

Cast: Alberto Pujols.

• Hasta cierto punto (1983).

Directors: Tomás Gutiérrez Alea

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea was a Cuban filmmaker. He wrote and directed more than 20 features, documentaries, and short films, which are known for his sharp insight into post-Revolutionary Cuba, and possess a delicate balance between dedication to the revolution and criticism of the social, economic,...

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Cast: Óscar Álvarez, Mirta Ibarra and Omar Valdés.

• Se permuta (1984).

Directors: Juan Carlos Tabío

Juan Carlos Tabío

Juan Carlos Tabío is a Cuban film director and screenwriter. His film Strawberry and Chocolate , which he co-directed with Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, won a Silver Bear - Special Jury Prize at the 44th Berlin International Film Festival, and was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign...

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Cast: Consuelo Vidal, Isabel Santos and Mario Balmaseda.

• Lejania (1985).

Director: Jesús Díaz

Jesús Díaz

Jesús Díaz Palacio is a retired Colombian football referee. He is known for having refereed two matches in the 1986 FIFA World Cup in Mexico. He made several controversial calls against Mexico at the 1986 FIFA World Cup held in Mexico....

Cast: Verónica Lynn, Jorge Trinchet, Isabel Santos, Beatriz Valdés

Beatriz Valdés

Beatriz Valdés Fidalgo is a Cuban-Venezuelan actress.She was born in Cuba, where she studied drama and worked as an actress before she arrived to Venezuela as a guest at the Cinema Interamerican Forum in 1989...

, Mónica Guffanti, Mauricio Rentería.

• De tal Pedro tal astilla (1985).

Director: Luis Felipe Bernaza.

Cast: Reynaldo Miravalles, Ana Viña and Nancy Gonzáles.

• Vampiros en La Habana (1985).

Director: Juan Padrón

Juan Padrón

Juan Padrón is a Cuban animation director.Since 1963 he has published sketches and cartoons for Cuban magazines and newspapers. He was the creator, in 1970, of Elpidio Valdés, a cartoon character with more than sixty shorts and two feature length movies...

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• El bohío (1985).

Director: Mario Rivas.

• Un hombre de exito (A man of success) (1986).

Director: Humberto Solas

Humberto Solás

Humberto Solás was a Cuban film director, credited with directing the classic film Lucía , which explored the lives of Cuban women during different periods in Cuban history....

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Cast: Daisy Granados, Cesar Evora

César Évora

César Évora is a Cuban actor.- Biography :Évora started out his career in his native Cuba appearing in more than ten movies before moving to Mexico in the early 1990s. He became known for playing minor roles in the seminal Corazón salvaje and the long-running Agujetas de color de rosa in 1993 and...

, Beatriz Valdes

Beatriz Valdés

Beatriz Valdés Fidalgo is a Cuban-Venezuelan actress.She was born in Cuba, where she studied drama and worked as an actress before she arrived to Venezuela as a guest at the Cinema Interamerican Forum in 1989...

, Raquel Revuelta, Jorge Trinchet, Carlos Cruz, Jorge Ali.

• Placido (1986)

Director: Sergio Giral

Sergio Giral

Sergio Giral Sergio Giral is a renowned Black Cuban-American film writer and director, born in Havana, Cuba from an American mother and a Cuban father. He was raised in New York City, as an aspiring young painter in the days of the Beatnick generation...

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• Baragua (1986).

Director: José Massip.

Cast: Mario Balmaseda, José Antonio Rodríguez, Nelson Villagra

Nelson Villagra

Nelson Villagra is a Chilean actor, author and director. He is considered to be the most masterful actors in Chilean cinema. He is widely known for his exceptional portrayal of the assassin in El Chacal de Nahueltoro by the director Miguel Littin...

, Sergio Corrieri, Rogelio Meneses, René de la Cruz.

• Vals en la Habana Vieja (1986).

Director: Luis Felipe Bernaza
Cast: Reynaldo Miravalles, Orlando Casín, Ana Viña, Tahimí Alvariño, Jorge Luis García

Jorge Luis Garcia

Jorge Luis Garcia was a Democratic politician. He served as Arizona State Senator for District 27 beginning in 2003, where he held the title of Assistant Minority Leader. Previously he was a member of the Arizona House of Representatives from 1993 through 1996...

, Mauricio Márquez, Corina Mestre, Leonor Zamora.

• Clandestinos (1987).

Director: Fernando Pérez

Fernando Pérez

Fernando Pérez Valdés is a prominent Cuban film director.Pérez graduated from the University of Havana with a degree in Language and Spanish Literature, and began working in the Cuban film industry in 1971 as an assistant director, before directing his first documentary in 1975.His feature debut...

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Cast: Luis Alberto García, Isabel Santos and Amado del Pino.

• Plaff (1988).

Directors: Juan Carlos Tabío

Juan Carlos Tabío

Juan Carlos Tabío is a Cuban film director and screenwriter. His film Strawberry and Chocolate , which he co-directed with Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, won a Silver Bear - Special Jury Prize at the 44th Berlin International Film Festival, and was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign...

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Cast: Daisy Granados, Thais Valdés and Raúl Pomares.

• La bella del Alhambra (1989).

Director: Enrique Pineda Barnet.

Cast: Beatriz Valdéz, Omar Valdéz and Verónica Lynn.

• Maria Antonia (1989)

Director: Sergio Giral

Sergio Giral

Sergio Giral Sergio Giral is a renowned Black Cuban-American film writer and director, born in Havana, Cuba from an American mother and a Cuban father. He was raised in New York City, as an aspiring young painter in the days of the Beatnick generation...

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1990s

• Oscuros Rinocerontes Enjaulados
  Oscuros Rinocerontes Enjaulados
  Oscuros Rinocerontes Enjaulados is a 1990 short Cuban film.-Description:Using a broad range of experimental techniques this film takes on some of the giants of absurdist and surreal filmmaking...
  
   (1990).

Director: Juan Carlos Cremata.

• 8-A (Ochoa) (1992).

Director: Orlando Jiménez-Leal.

• Fresa y Chocolate (Strawberry and Chocolate) (1993).

Directors: Tomás Gutiérrez Alea

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea was a Cuban filmmaker. He wrote and directed more than 20 features, documentaries, and short films, which are known for his sharp insight into post-Revolutionary Cuba, and possess a delicate balance between dedication to the revolution and criticism of the social, economic,...

 and Juan Carlos Tabío

Juan Carlos Tabío

Juan Carlos Tabío is a Cuban film director and screenwriter. His film Strawberry and Chocolate , which he co-directed with Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, won a Silver Bear - Special Jury Prize at the 44th Berlin International Film Festival, and was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign...

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Cast: Jorge Perugorría

Jorge Perugorría

Jorge Perugorria was born on August 13, 1965 in Wajay, Havana. He is known as one of the most famous Cuban actors since his part as Diego in Strawberry and Chocolate Jorge Perugorria (aka Pichi) was born on August 13, 1965 in Wajay, Havana. He is known as one of the most famous Cuban actors since...

, Vladimir Cruz

Vladimir Cruz

Vladimir Cruz is a Cuban actor who has appeared in a number of feature films, television series, theatre works and shorts. He has also directed films and theatre works....

 and Mirta Ibarra.

• El Elefante y la Bicicleta (The Elephant and the Bicycle) (1994).

Director: Juan Carlos Tabío

Juan Carlos Tabío

Juan Carlos Tabío is a Cuban film director and screenwriter. His film Strawberry and Chocolate , which he co-directed with Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, won a Silver Bear - Special Jury Prize at the 44th Berlin International Film Festival, and was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign...

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Cast: Luis Alberto García, Lillian Vega, Raúl Pomaresand, Martha Farré, Daisy Granados, Adolfo Llauradó, Patricio Wood, Osvaldo Doimeadiós, Paula Alí and Gladys Zurbano.

• Madagascar
  Madagascar (1994 film)
  Madagascar is a Cuban film that marked Fernando Pérez's change of direction into a more lyrical approach to filmmaking, somehow stripped from the realistic documentary feel of his early work...
  
   (1994).

Director: Fernando Pérez

Fernando Pérez

Fernando Pérez Valdés is a prominent Cuban film director.Pérez graduated from the University of Havana with a degree in Language and Spanish Literature, and began working in the Cuban film industry in 1971 as an assistant director, before directing his first documentary in 1975.His feature debut...

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• Guantanemera
  Guantanamera (film)
  Guantanamera is a 1995 comedy film from Cuba, directed by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea and Juan Carlos Tabío, featuring an ensemble cast. Screenplay by Eliseo Alberto and others.-Synopsis:...
  
   (1995).

Directors: Tomás Gutiérrez Alea

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea was a Cuban filmmaker. He wrote and directed more than 20 features, documentaries, and short films, which are known for his sharp insight into post-Revolutionary Cuba, and possess a delicate balance between dedication to the revolution and criticism of the social, economic,...

 and Juan Carlos Tabío

Juan Carlos Tabío

Juan Carlos Tabío is a Cuban film director and screenwriter. His film Strawberry and Chocolate , which he co-directed with Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, won a Silver Bear - Special Jury Prize at the 44th Berlin International Film Festival, and was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign...

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Cast: Mirta Ibarra.

• Bitter Sugar (1996).

Director: Leon Ichaso

Leon Ichaso

-Early life and education:Leon Ichaso was born in Havana August 3, 1948, into a family of well-known writers, journalists and artists. His father, Justo Rodríguez Santos, was one of Cuba's most respected poets and a pioneer in broadcast TV and radio -and his mother Antonia Ichaso had a radio...

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• Who the Hell is Juliette?
  Who the Hell is Juliette?
  Who the Hell is Juliette? is a Mexican 1997 documentary film directed by Carlos Marcovich and written by Marcovich and Carlos Cuarón. The film is about Yuliet Ortega, a teen prostitute who lives in Havana, Cuba and Fabiola Quiroz, a Mexican model...
  
   (1997).

Director: Carlos Marcovich.

• La Vida es Silbar
  La Vida es Silbar
  Life Is to Whistle is an award winning, 1998 Cuban film directed by Fernando Pérez- Plot synopsis :The film tells the stories of three end-of-the millennium Cubans, whose lives intersect on the Day of Santa Barbara...
  
   (1998).

Director: Fernando Pérez

Fernando Pérez

Fernando Pérez Valdés is a prominent Cuban film director.Pérez graduated from the University of Havana with a degree in Language and Spanish Literature, and began working in the Cuban film industry in 1971 as an assistant director, before directing his first documentary in 1975.His feature debut...

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Cast: Luis Alberto García, Coralia Veloz, Rolando Brito and Isabel Santos.

• Los Zapaticos me Aprietan
  Los Zapaticos me Aprietan
  Los Zapaticos me Aprietan is an award winning Cuban short film that uses documentary footage of people's shoes to convey a political message. The film was directed by Humberto Padrón-Awards:*Mention for Sound Design, Festival CinePlaza, 1999...
  
   (1999) - Short film.

Director: Humberto Padrón

Humberto Padrón

Humberto Padrón is a Cuban film director.Padrón graduated from ISA in Havana. He has since directed several awards winning documentary shorts including "Y Todavia el Sueño" and "Los Zapaticos me Aprietan"...

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2000s

• Lista de Espera (Waiting List) (2000).

Director: Juan Carlos Tabío

Juan Carlos Tabío

Juan Carlos Tabío is a Cuban film director and screenwriter. His film Strawberry and Chocolate , which he co-directed with Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, won a Silver Bear - Special Jury Prize at the 44th Berlin International Film Festival, and was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign...

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Cast: Vladimir Cruz

Vladimir Cruz

Vladimir Cruz is a Cuban actor who has appeared in a number of feature films, television series, theatre works and shorts. He has also directed films and theatre works....

, Tahimí Alvariño and Jorge Perugorría

Jorge Perugorría

Jorge Perugorria was born on August 13, 1965 in Wajay, Havana. He is known as one of the most famous Cuban actors since his part as Diego in Strawberry and Chocolate Jorge Perugorria (aka Pichi) was born on August 13, 1965 in Wajay, Havana. He is known as one of the most famous Cuban actors since...

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• Todo por ella (2002) - Short film.

Director: Pavel Giroud

Pavel Giroud

Pavel Giroud is a film director. He studied design and graduated from the Instituto Superior de Diseño ten years ago.He first worked as a designer, but for a very short period of time...

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• Suite Habana
  Suite Habana
  Suite Habana is a 2003 Cuban documentary directed by Fernando Pérez.The documentary was filmed with fictional cinema techniques depicting a day in a life of thirteen real people, from a ten-year-old child with Down Syndrome to a 79-year-old lady who sells peanuts in the street.The film has no...
  
   (2003).

Director: Fernando Pérez

Fernando Pérez

Fernando Pérez Valdés is a prominent Cuban film director.Pérez graduated from the University of Havana with a degree in Language and Spanish Literature, and began working in the Cuban film industry in 1971 as an assistant director, before directing his first documentary in 1975.His feature debut...

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• Red Cockroaches
  Red Cockroaches
  Red Cockroaches is a Cuban film released in 2003. This feature film was the debut production of Miguel Coyula and was the result of a two-year effort on a tiny budget of $2,000. Shot entirely using a portable digital camcorder and edited on a home computer, Red Cockroaches is an example of DIY...
  
   (Cucarachas Rojas) (2003).

Director: Miguel Coyula

Miguel Coyula

Miguel Coyula Aquino is a Cuban filmmaker. At age 17, he made his first short with a VHS camcorder, which led to his admittance to the International Film School of San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba...

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Cast: Adam Plotch, Talia Rubel

Talia Rubel

Talia Rubel is a film and theater actress. She graduated from the Mason Gross School of the Arts with a BFA in acting. Since that time, she has performed in a number of Off-Broadway plays, including 68 and Stalking Perfection, and produced and starred in the play I Found Her Tied to My Bed...

 and Jeff Pucillo.

• La casa por la ventana (2003).

Director: Pavel Giroud

Pavel Giroud

Pavel Giroud is a film director. He studied design and graduated from the Instituto Superior de Diseño ten years ago.He first worked as a designer, but for a very short period of time...

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• Silk Screen (2004) - Short film.

Director: Pavel Giroud

Pavel Giroud

Pavel Giroud is a film director. He studied design and graduated from the Instituto Superior de Diseño ten years ago.He first worked as a designer, but for a very short period of time...

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• Tres veces dos (3x2) (2004).

Director: Pavel Giroud

Pavel Giroud

Pavel Giroud is a film director. He studied design and graduated from the Instituto Superior de Diseño ten years ago.He first worked as a designer, but for a very short period of time...

, Léster Hamlet and Estéban Insausti.

• Viva Cuba
  Viva Cuba
  Viva Cuba is a 2005 Cuban film, directed by Juan Carlos Cremata and Iraida Malberti Cabrera, and written by Cremata and Manolito Rodriguez...
  
   (2005).

Director: Juan Carlos Cremata.

Cast: Luisa Maria Jiménez and Alberto Pujols.

• Habana Blues
  Habana Blues
  Havana Blues is a 2005 Spanish and Cuban film by Benito Zambrano, which tells the story of two young musicians in Cuba. The film revolves around their music and contains criticism of problems in Cuba such as poverty and electricity outages...
  
   (2005).

Director: Benito Zambrano

Benito Zambrano

Benito Zambrano , is an awarded Spanish screenwriter and film director. His film Habana Blues was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival...

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Cast: Alberto Yoel, Roberto Sanmartín and Yailene Sierra.

• Frank Emilio, Amor y Piano (2005) - Short film.

Director: Pavel Giroud

Pavel Giroud

Pavel Giroud is a film director. He studied design and graduated from the Instituto Superior de Diseño ten years ago.He first worked as a designer, but for a very short period of time...

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• Esther Borja: Rapsodia de Cuba (2005) - Documentary film
  Documentary film
  Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
  
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Director: Pavel Giroud

Pavel Giroud

Pavel Giroud is a film director. He studied design and graduated from the Instituto Superior de Diseño ten years ago.He first worked as a designer, but for a very short period of time...

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• El Benny
  El Benny
  El Benny is a Cuban film released in 2006, directed and co-written by Jorge Luis Sánchez, his first feature length film. It is a fictional story based on the life of the famous Cuban musician Benny Moré...
  
   (2006).

Director: Jorge Luis Sánchez

Jorge Luis Sánchez

Jorge Luis Sánchez is a Cuban film director. He was a founder of the Federación Nacional de Cine Clubes de Cuba - the Nacional Federation of Cine Clubs of Cuba....

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Cast: Renny Arozarena

Renny Arozarena

Renny Arozarena is a Cuban actor, born in Havana in 1971.He started acting as a child, making his professional debut on the stage in leading roles in Andoba, Santa Camila de la Habana Vieja, Romeo et Juliette, Othello, among others. He is now director of a theatre group...

 and Enrique Molina.

• La Edad de la peseta (The silly age) (2006).

Director: Pavel Giroud

Pavel Giroud

Pavel Giroud is a film director. He studied design and graduated from the Instituto Superior de Diseño ten years ago.He first worked as a designer, but for a very short period of time...

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• Car Havana (2006)- Documentary film
  Documentary film
  Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
  
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Director: Pavel Giroud

Pavel Giroud

Pavel Giroud is a film director. He studied design and graduated from the Instituto Superior de Diseño ten years ago.He first worked as a designer, but for a very short period of time...

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• Manteca, Mondongo y Bacalao con pan (Una mirada al Jazz Cubano) (2007) - Documentary film
  Documentary film
  Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
  
  .

Director: Pavel Giroud

Pavel Giroud

Pavel Giroud is a film director. He studied design and graduated from the Instituto Superior de Diseño ten years ago.He first worked as a designer, but for a very short period of time...

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• Kangamba (2008).

Director: Rogelio París.

Cast: Rafael Lahera and Armando Tomey.

• Personal Belongings (2008).

Director: Alejandro Brugués.

Cast: Caleb Casas and Rubén Breña.

• Los dioses rotos (2008).

Director: Ernesto Daranas.

Cast: Carlos Ever Fonseca, Silvia Águila and Isabel Santos.

• Omerta
  Omertà
  Omertà is a popular attitude and code of honour and a common definition is the "code of silence". It is common in areas of southern Italy, such as Sicily, Apulia, Calabria, and Campania, where criminal organizations defined as Mafia such as the Cosa Nostra, 'Ndrangheta, Sacra Corona Unita, and...
  
   (2008).

Director: Pavel Giroud

Pavel Giroud

Pavel Giroud is a film director. He studied design and graduated from the Instituto Superior de Diseño ten years ago.He first worked as a designer, but for a very short period of time...

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Cast: Manuel Porto.

• El Cuerno de la Abundancia (2008).

Director: Juan Carlos Tabío

Juan Carlos Tabío

Juan Carlos Tabío is a Cuban film director and screenwriter. His film Strawberry and Chocolate , which he co-directed with Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, won a Silver Bear - Special Jury Prize at the 44th Berlin International Film Festival, and was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign...

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Cast: Jorge Perugorría

Jorge Perugorría

Jorge Perugorria was born on August 13, 1965 in Wajay, Havana. He is known as one of the most famous Cuban actors since his part as Diego in Strawberry and Chocolate Jorge Perugorria (aka Pichi) was born on August 13, 1965 in Wajay, Havana. He is known as one of the most famous Cuban actors since...

, Vladimir Cruz

Vladimir Cruz

Vladimir Cruz is a Cuban actor who has appeared in a number of feature films, television series, theatre works and shorts. He has also directed films and theatre works....

 and Mirta Ibarra.

External links

• Cuban film at the Internet Movie Database
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