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Capablanca

Capablanca Screen Cuba

Instituto Cervantes is collaborating with the third edition of the Screen Cuba film festival. Screen Cuba celebrates Cuban cinema, exploring the achievements and challenges of the Cuban people through the vision of its filmmakers since the 1959 Revolution, and presenting films that are rarely screened in the United Kingdom. The 2026 festival will take place from 15 to 28 March 2026 in London and other locations, with themes focused on class, race, and gender. It will include restored classics such as Lucía (1968), by Humberto Solás — considered one of the ten greatest Latin American films of all time — and the sharp anti‑colonialist satire The Last Supper (1976), by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, as well as documentaries by Sara Gómez, short films, and contemporary features. 


Sinopsis 
Cuban world chess champion José Raúl Capablanca is the inspiration for this stylish drama set in 1925, part sports pride, part tragic love story. The man who created a revolution in the game of science, goes to Moscow to test his strength and falls in love with a Bolshoi ballerina.

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