House for Swap

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 film heralded a new genre of sociocritical comedy in Cuba and was the debut feature of director Juan Carlos Tabio. It is full of Cubanisms – everyday problems, language and attitudes of that era and a range of characters. Gloria wants her adult daughter to find a husband, who she considers a “good match”, and engineers a chain of house swaps to move to a “better neighbourhood” to make things go her way – but her daughter has different ideas and to love who she wants.

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