Please bear in mind that the age and rarity of this film means that the quality may not be what you are used to, however this is the last remaining version and a rare opportunity to see a hugely important and influential Cuban film of the 1980s.

It’s Havana, a year before the 1959 revolution, and a group of young people are fighting against President Batista's tyranny in a clandestine action cell. A dramatic story of love, solidarity, illusions and sacrifice based on real events. An incredible first film, with a tight script like a thriller, by the most important current Cuban director. The fictional characters of Nereida and Ernesto made the actors, Isabel Santos and Luis Alberto García, an inseparable part of the history of Cuban cinema.

Pérez commented on his multiple award winning feature: 'I always knew that my first film was going to be about [this], because at the age of fifteen, when I was discovering cinema, I discovered that people my age were fighting for the Revolution. I felt that there was an epic that I had to tell…I did not participate in the armed struggle…but my memory was what most marked the film. I always tried to make every image alive, credible.'

Content Warning: Contains some scenes of violence

Screen Cuba: Films to Change the World is a collaborative project of the charity Music Fund for Cuba, the Cuba Solidarity Campaign, the Cuban Embassy in the UK and the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry (ICAIC).

Proceeds from the Solidarity ticket will to go to Cuban film institute (ICAIC) projects including restoration of classic films.