Dublin Cuban Film Festival

Dublin Cuban Film Festival Three days of Caribbean cinema in the heart of Dublin. Irish premieres, rarely screened archive films, and stories from Cuba and beyond.

All proceeds to mediCuba-Europe. (Formerly Progressive Film Club)

This year we were honoured to have a series of guest speakers who brought their unique analysis, important historical co...
27/07/2026

This year we were honoured to have a series of guest speakers who brought their unique analysis, important historical context and Irish-Cuban insights from across a spectrum of civil society, community and nonprofit organisations.

Many thanks to CATU Ireland , Praxis the Artists' Union of Ireland , Anne Devlin Community Centre , LASC Ireland , Communist Party of Ireland Dublin Branch and the Cuban Embassy in Ireland who sent some of their best and brightest to contribute to the festival this year.

24/07/2026

When the Venezuelan people ousted their IMF-backed neoliberal government, they faced a new US blockade and pressure on neighbouring nations to isolate them - however Cuba always supported their right to sovereignty and independence.

Hugo Chávez began a long term project with Cuba to bring healthcare to millions of people, tackle high illiteracy rates and build cultural connections between the two embargoed Latin American nations. Even today, Cuban doctors and rescue workers were the first to support Venezuela after their devastating earthquakes - while the US and EU refused to release their reserves in international banks.

Tonight we'll see footage from their rebellion against US influence through the political awakening of the Venezuelan people, and their future president, in Nicolas: From Yare to Miraflores.

🎥 7pm Friday 24th, The New Theatre, Temple Bar
🎟️ Tickets in bio

Delighted to be joined by outgoing Praxis the Artists' Union of Ireland secretary Clíodhna, and Gorge from LASC Ireland,...
24/07/2026

Delighted to be joined by outgoing Praxis the Artists' Union of Ireland secretary Clíodhna, and Gorge from LASC Ireland, this Saturday to introduce our 2nd programme of short films from ICAIC's archives at 4pm.

This collection starts with two shorts on music, culture and the reclaiming of space in Santiago by Afro-Cubans liberated by the removal of the US-backed Batista dictatorship. We then explore the punishment inflicted by the US as a result, the blockade begins, acts of terrorism begin in Cuba and we finish with the obituary documentary, made 48hrs afrer Che Guevara was murdered in Bolivia.

Proceeds of the festival go to mediCuba-Europe, and their campaign to buy solar powered tuc-tucs for the Latin American School of Medicine in Havana.

Tickets in bio 🇨🇺

23/07/2026

Using real revolutionary fighters, ICAIC's short films from the 1960s are like few others. Raw and unrefined.

Our Saturday screenings will be showing some of the best from the Cuban archives.

Tickets in bio.

Joining us Saturday to talk about housing and land struggles here at home, and to introduce our first programme of Cuban...
22/07/2026

Joining us Saturday to talk about housing and land struggles here at home, and to introduce our first programme of Cuban short films, include D3 committee member Matt from Community Action Tenant Union (CATU), followed by a speaker from the Revolutionary Housing League / Anne Devlin Community Centre.

This collection of short films from the 1960s show how, and why, Cuban tenants, peasants and workers united against landlordism and inequality throughout the 50s, eventually ousting the US-backed dictatorship in 59 and implementing a wide range of land reforms, rent reductions and the de-commodification of housing.

🎟️ Tickets in bio.
🇨🇺 Funds raised go to mediCuba-Europe for their campaign to buy solar powered tuc-tucs for the Latin American School of Medicine in Havana.

Today our Temple Bar neighbours Project Arts Centre just opened an exhibition that might interest you! The new 19min loo...
22/07/2026

Today our Temple Bar neighbours Project Arts Centre just opened an exhibition that might interest you! 

The new 19min looped video installation, Mirror States, explores the intertwined revolutionary history of Ireland and Cuba. 

Opening times:

22nd July 2pm-6pm
23rd July 11am-6pm
With a Q&A with artist Caroline Mac Cathmhaoil and curator Beulah Ezeugo 23rd 6pm (booking required through Project's website) 

More about installation:

Mirror States reflects on the intertwined revolutionary histories of Cuba and Ireland. Both islands share a strange United States Military Base in the west – Shannon Airport and Guantanamo Bay. In the 1890’s Cuba was described in irish revolutionary circles as ‘The Ireland of the West’. Ireland later gave Cuba the charismatic Irish revolutionary Che Guevara Lynch; while in return Cuba gave Ireland the more conservative and dour figure of Eamon De Valera whose family came from outside Havana. 

Cuba largely fulfilled the socialist dream of its uprising. While filming Mirror States in Cuba it felt like the revolution was still happening. Large plazas celebrated their heroes. The images of the revolution were everywhere. Dublin in contrast never developed a similar visual language of commemoration of its revolutionary triumph. The heroes of our rising are hidden in small statues down exhaust-fumed back streets – hardly noticed, their dreams seem forgotten. 

Filmed between Cuba and Ireland 2022-2025, Mirror States weaves together original footage, found material and online archives to explore how both islands now commemorate or obscure their political pasts and potential futures. Through mirrored images Mirror States asks what might be rediscovered when the histories of Cuba and Ireland (sometimes parallel and sometimes divergent) are brought into dialogue once more. 

The first night of this year's festival has sold out!A few tickets remaining for Friday & Saturday - don't miss out!All ...
22/07/2026

The first night of this year's festival has sold out!

A few tickets remaining for Friday & Saturday - don't miss out!

All proceeds go to mediCuba-Europe, and their campaign to buy solar powered tuc-tucs for the Latin American School of Medicine in Havana.

Link in bio 🇮🇪🤝🇨🇺

21/07/2026

Does this Housing Crisis sound familiar?

La Vivienda (1959) documents a city divided - overcrowded tenements, families without basic needs hidden from tourists while others hide behind wealth.

This short, along with others about Cuba's housing and land reforms, is screening this Saturday 25th 1pm in Temple Bar. Tickets in bio or on TheNewTheatre.com 🎟️

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