Twelve Chairs
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
This first feature film by Alea, and ICAIC’s first comedy, has a madcap plot about the hunt for family jewels hidden by a wealthy Cuban matriarch before she died, in one of a set of 12 dining chairs which have been sold off individually. Son-in-law Hipólito and his former chauffeur Oscar embark on a desperate adventure to find the ‘treasure’ before each other or the state does.
