Memories of Titón

 Often cited as Cuba's favourite director Titón was one of the key figures of the “Third Cinema”, a 1960s-70s movement rooted in the Cuban Revolution (1959) that called for politically engaged, anti-imperialist, and collective filmmaking, conceived as an urgent and necessary rejection to Hollywood (“First Cinema”) and elitist art-house cinema (“Second Cinema”).  That not only transformed how films are made but also how they were taught and shown to audiences.

Screen Cuba celebrates Cuba’s homegrown cinema industry, looking at the achievements and challenges of the Cuban people through the decolonising lenses of their filmmakers since the 1959 revolution, and presenting films rarely screened in the UK.