Havana Glasgow Film Festival

𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗲𝗿𝗲: 𝗙𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗹 𝗖𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗼: ¡𝗩𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗼𝘀! + 𝗤&𝗔

Marking 100 Years Since the Birth of Fidel Castro

Thursday, 27 August 2026
Time: 6pm
Glasgow Film Theatre (GFT)

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Havana Glasgow Film Festival celebrated its tenth anniversary this year, with a celebration of solidarity and kindness, two commodities in rather short supply in these brutal times. Glasgow is commemorating its 850th year in a rather muted fashion, with financial uncertainty particularly affecting the city’s arts scene. Meanwhile, the capital of Cuba, like the entire is...

We’ve had an amazing week of events during the Havana Glasgow Film Festival, and we want to share some highlights with you. Here are a few moments captured by our wonderful photographer.

10 Years Celebration
All photos by Dougie Souness –

The history of LGBTQ rights in Cuba is complex and contested – as it is elsewhere. Fidel Castro and the Revolution were initially unsympathetic, not recognising how such people’s identities could be reconciled with the revolutionary principle of the “new man”, which may have been somewhat created in Fidel’s rather macho image, and regarded as being ideologically diverge...

In the aftermath of the Cuban Revolution in 1959, one of the greatest challenges was how to educate the population in the ideals and potential embodied by the revolutionary process. Due to the massive inequalities which had prevailed under the Batista regime, many of the population were illiterate, and film was determined to be one of the best ways in which to reach the publi...