Three Sundays. Three movies about Cuba. We'll be screening them for free outside the shop (weather permitting) with free snacks and a discussion afterward.

Radical economic change is happening in Cuba under heightened US imperial aggression, so let's watch some movies and look back at the history of the Cuban revolution and look ahead to what might come next. The 1959 Cuban revolution mostly started with the storming of the Moncada army barracks on July 26th 1953, so we'll be starting our film series then too.

Part One - July 26th, 2026 at 7:00 PM

I Am Cuba: The result of an extraordinarily ambitious collaboration between the Soviet and Cuban film industries, director Mikhail Kalatozov’s I Am Cuba unfolds in four explosive vignettes that capture Cuban life on the brink of transformation, as crushing economic exploitation and inequality give way to a working-class uprising.

Part Two - August 2nd, 2026 at 7:00 PM

Memories of Underdevelopment: This film by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea is the most renowned work in the history of Cuban cinema. After his wife and family flee in the wake of the Bay of Pigs invasion, the bourgeois intellectual Sergio (Sergio Corrieri) passes his days wandering Havana in idle reflection, his amorous entanglements and political ambivalence gradually giving way to a mounting sense of alienation.

Part Three - August 9th, 2026 at 7:00 PM

Cuba After Castro: Cuba After Castro delivers the definitive portrait of Miguel Díaz-Canel, Cuba’s first leader born after the Revolution. Through this unprecedented in-depth interview we see a vision of revolutionary Cuba suppressed in the west: a nation of collective values and defiance in the face of constant threats from the United States. The film chronicles Diaz-Canel’s formation as an unexpected successor to the Castros — an unassuming organizer molded by the revolutionary process. Confronting a perfect storm of intensified U.S. sanctions, a media war, a devastating pandemic, and historic domestic protests. Díaz-Canel reflects on navigating these existential crises for the nation he has come to lead.