By Brian Beadie “Creation must be subversive. We are acrobats in a grand circus, we only want to live on the tightrope, without a wire, and juggle our skins.” – … Continue reading Juliet of the Spirits The post Juliet of the Spirits appeared first on Havana Glasgow Film Festival ..read more

In a unique partnership with Visit Small Isles Films, Screen Argyll, Screen Scotland and local partners, we are visiting the small isles of Rum, Canna, Eigg and Muck this summer!  … Continue reading Cuba is coming to the Small Isles! The post Cuba is coming to the Small Isles! appeared first on Havana Glasgow Film Festival ..read more

NOW! 20 July at CCA Glasgow 17:00 – 18:30 Conversation between special guests Cuban filmmaker Eduardo del Llano – Página Oficial and David Archibald from The Tenementals CCA Courtyard – … Continue reading Cuba Now! Special Summer Event The post Cuba Now! Special Summer Event appeared first on Havana Glasgow Film Festival ..read more

Glasgow City Council Civic Reception – 2024? All photos by Dougie Souness – www.nohalfmeasures.photography © The post Glasgow City Council Civic Reception – 2024 appeared first on Havana Glasgow Film Festival ..read more

By Brian Beadie Satire has long been one of the most fertile and productive of literary genres, from Aristophanes in ancient Greece, flourishing under Rome (a very fitting subject) where it became recognised as a distinct form. It would become resurgent during the Renaissance, from France with Rabelais (whose very name would become an adjective for one strain of the beast) to Scotland, where David Lindsay’s “Ane Satyre of the Three Estaits” would become the first major Scottish theatrical work. Going through a Golden Age in the eighteenth century with the likes of Voltaire and Swift, it cont ..read more

Gore Vidal once defined the history of humanity as a history of movement, of migration. While this can have many positive effects, the obverse is that the history of humanity can also be read as a history of violence, caused by the displacement of humans, and squabbles over resources.   The most obvious example of this is the history of colonialism, a history that has recently been interrogated and found wanting, and the Caribbean is a perfect site for investigation. The British spearheaded the process of colonisation with Saint Kitts in 1623 and Barbados in 1627, soon to be followed by t ..read more

Havana Glasgow Film Festival are very pleased to present a programme of new feminist short films made as part of an initiative spearheaded by David Archibald from the University of Glasgow and Núria Araüna Baró of Universitat Rovira in Virgil, Catalunya, who are working with the festival and feminist activists and organisations to use AV technology to amplify women’s voices from Low and Middle Income Countries. The aims of the project are to encourage transnational experience sharing between the Global South and the Global North, and build networks of support and solidarity that are simultaneo ..read more

As the cost of living crisis has deepened over the last couple of years, and people have seen their living standards consequently eroded, trade union resistance to the situation has strengthened, and people like Mick Lynch, in his role as Secretary general of the RMT, have become folk heroes. Kicking back against an era of declining trade union membership, in a work environment characterised by increased deregulation, people – and young people in particular – have been rediscovering the power of being in a union. One of the most exploitative and deregulated industries has traditionally been th ..read more

The Golden Age of auteur cinema may be over internationally; it certainly is within Cuba, a country which has more serious issues to attend to in the present moment than promoting art cinema. Nevertheless, the country does have one filmmaker whose name is on the cinephile radar at international film festivals, that of Fernando Perez, and we’re delighted to be hosting the UK premiere of his latest film, “El Mundo del Nelsito” (Nelson’s World). Perez is now in his 70s, and the elder statesman of Cuban cinema, having begun working in documentary in the 70s, but not making a major impact until 19 ..read more

One of the most popular recent documentaries on the subject of Cuba has been Marcia Jarmel and Ken Schneider’s “Los Hermanos” (The Brothers), which tracks the progress of two brothers, Aldo and Ilmar López-Gavilán, who are united by their musical interests, yet separated by their parallel lives in Cuba and the U.S. The subject of Cuban exile is a potent one in Cuban society; Jamel and Schneider’s film is unusual in its sympathy for showing both sides of the divide, being an American rather than a Cuban film, and for exploring the parallel trajectories of Cuban music, in both the classical trad ..read more